The movie was so successful that Hollywood made more than 50 gangster movies the following year. The most violent movie of 1932 was Scarface, starring Paul Muni as Tony Camonte, a Chicago mobster.
One of the best movies about the American Mafia was made by an Englishman. Mike Newell, whose filmography includes Four Weddings and a Funeral and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, brought to ...