Scarface

Screenwriter Ben Hecht was a journalist in Chicago and was well acquainted with many gangsters, including al Capone. During the filming Hecht once returned to his hotel room in Los Angeles and found two thugs al Capone. They asked him whether the film is about al Capone. Hecht assured them that this is not so, saying that the way Tony Camonte he created, focusing on the other two gangsters — Jim Colosimo and Charles Dion O Bannion. "Then why is the movie called "Scarface?", — asked one of the bandits. Everyone will think it's about al Capone". "That's the whole reason,' said Hecht. People will think that the picture of al Capone, and will definitely go to watch it. These are the laws of show business". This answer quite satisfied with the gangsters.

To give the narrative inexorability of Greek tragedy, the hawks decided to add to each scene X, which in newspaper reports about the killings marked the location of the corpse. This has a scar on his cheek Camonte, and throughout the film, from opening credits to the final, this sign POPs up dozens of times, and in the most unexpected places. The members of the crew were promised a reward of one hundred dollars for the most witty suggestions for how to "encode" X in a particular scene.

Al Capone rumored to be so liked the painting that he even kept a copy of it.

The film was re-released in rent in 1979.

In 1994, the band was listed on the national register of the most significant films.

The censors were unhappy with the way the underworld is depicted in the picture