Scarface- Deluxe Gift Set (Brand New and Sealed; List Price: $59.98, Buy It Now Price $41.98 )


Say hello to our little friend: a slick two-disc gift set that includes the original 1932 version of Scarface directed by Howard Hawks, a set of collectible lobby cards, a gold money clip, and, of course, the anniversary edition of the 1983 remake, starring the incomparable Al Pacino, scripted by Oliver Stone and directed by Brian De Palma. Extras include 22 minutes worth of deleted scenes and several compelling featurettes about the making of the film and the gangster icon in pop culture.

Scarface (1983) This sprawling epic of bloodshed and excess, Brian De Palma's update of the classic 1932 crime drama by Howard Hawks, sparked controversy over its outrageous violence when released in 1983. Scarface is a wretched, fascinating car wreck of a movie, starring Al Pacino as a Cuban refugee who rises to the top of Miami's cocaine-driven underworld, only to fall hard into his own deadly trap of addiction and inevitable assassination. Scripted by Oliver Stone and running nearly three hours, it's the kind of film that can simultaneously disgust and amaze you (critic Pauline Kael wrote "this may be the only action picture that turns into an allegory of impotence"), with vivid supporting roles for Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Robert Loggia. --Jeff Shannon

Scarface (1932) Howard Hawks's Scarface was one of the first "talkies" to reclaim the fluidity of the late-silent masterpieces, while also tapping into a feral new energy that came with talking smart and moving smarter on the motion picture screen. Outgunning such contemporaries as Little Caesar and The Public Enemy--in terms of both its ferocious death-dealing and dynamic style--the movie was interfered with by censors and kept out of circulation for decades thanks to its eccentric producer, Howard Hughes. It remains the gold standard among classic gangster pictures. Paul Muni's portrayal of Al Capone surrogate Tony Camonte etched a screen original: a merciless assassin who's not only reflexively criminal but pre-civilized, almost pre-evolutionary, a simian shadow ready to rub out the world if he can't have it for his own. This is still one of the greatest, darkest, most deeply exciting films American cinema has produced. Those demonically ubiquitous X's--starting with that titular scar gouged into Tony's cheek--rival "Rosebud" for resonance. --Richard T. Jameson


Edition Details:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Includes the original 1932 version and the Anniversary edition of the 1983 film
• Set of collectible lobby cards
• Gold money clip
Anniversay edition contains:
• The Rebirth of Scarface (10 mins.)
• Acting Scarface (15 mins.)
• Creating Scarface (30 mins.)
• Scarface: The TV Version - a look at the two versions (3 mins)
• Deleted scenes (22 mins.)
• Def Jam presents The Origins of a Gangsta' (30 mins).
• Full-screen and widescreen anamorphic formats


• Number of discs: 3

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