23. Censorship: Scarface (1932)
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Support the show! Modern pop culture may be more familiar with the ‘80s iteration of Scarface, but the gangster film prototype was set in the early ‘30s by a number of pre-Hays mob flicks. We discuss how the original Scarface (dir. Howard Hawks) filmmakers nevertheless dealt with an infuriating series of censorship setbacks before they arrived at a movie they could finally release. Sources Clarens, Carlos: Crime Movies : From Griffith to The Godfather and Beyond (1980) https://archive.org/details/crimemoviesfromg00clar/page/88/mode/2up Thomas, Tony: Howard Hughes in Hollywood (1985) https://archive.org/details/howardhughesinho0000thom/page/74/mode/2up Wikipedia
