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Scarface: Shame of a Nation (1931)
Sweet movie. I totally love the 30's gangster films and this one especially, though Little Caesar and Public Enemy No. 1 are also consumate examples. Paul Muni is just perfect in his role for the film, ambitious, violent, charismatic and ultimately destestable. The film essentially wrote the schema for gangster films and remains the touchstone of almost every subsequent film in the genre, only the Godfather could be argued to be more important.
Great great entertainment too!
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