by Oliver Stone

Considered one of the masterpieces of the mob movie genre and a cinema classic, “Scarface” was written by Oliver Stone and directed by Brian De Palma.

a 1983 American crime drama and masterful collaboration between acclaimed director Academy Award® Brian De Palma and -winning screenwriter Oliver Stone

Scarface is a 1983 American crime drama and masterful collaboration between acclaimed director Brian De Palma and Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Oliver Stone.

Controversial filmmaker Oliver Stone

Controversial filmmaker Oliver Stone penned Scarface and directed classics like Platoon, Wall Street, The Doors, JFK, and Natural Born Killers, to name a few.

by Oliver Stone, Armitage Trail, Howard Hawks and Ben Hecht

Scarface is a 1983 English-language Crime Drama film written by Oliver Stone, Armitage Trail, Howard Hawks and Ben Hecht.

Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht wrote the orig­i­nal Scar­face and the Hitch­cock movie, Noto­ri­ous, to name just two.

Oliver Stone (pictured in 1987)

Oliver Stone (pictured in 1987) wrote the script for Scarface while struggling with Oliver Stone's own addiction to cocaine.

Armitage Trail

Scarface is a novel written by Armitage Trail in 1929 and published in 1930.

by record producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte

Scarface is a song written by record producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte and recorded by American musician Paul Engemann.

Hecht

Hecht wrote SCARFACE (1933) and NOTHING SACRED (1937) just for starters--too great comedies about death.

Brian De Palma and Oliver Stone

In 1983, Brian De Palma and Oliver Stone created Scarface, a movie that has endured for 20 years to become a cornerstone of popular culture.

Peter Nelson

: Scarface is a book written by Peter Nelson.

one of Oliver Stone’s early landmark screenplays

Scarface was released in 1983 and was one of Oliver Stone’s early landmark screenplays.

Brian De Palma's grandest achievement, a superlative epic that represents more a time capsule of 1980

Scarface is perhaps Brian De Palma's grandest achievement, a superlative epic that represents more a time capsule of 1980

Ben Hecht, who were the writers of the original Scarface

The film is dedicated to Howard Hawks and Ben Hecht, who were the writers of the original Scarface.

Jed Harris

Of the original play, theater producer and writer Jed Harris writes, Scarface (1932) After ushering in the beginning of the gangster films with Underworld, writer Jed Harris's next film became one of the best films of that genre.

writer Ben Hechtwould

(writer Ben Hechtwould shake free of von Sternberg's overly pretty pictures a couple of years later and write the script for perhaps the most iconic gangster picture, Scarface.)

an American crime drama movie that was founded by Brian De Palma

Scarface is an American crime drama movie that was founded by Brian De Palma.

Brian De Palma’s

In 1983, Brian De Palma’s Scarface told the story of Tony Montana (Al Pacino), a Cuban immigrant-turned-drug-lord, which borrowed heavily from real life – especially the Mariel boatlift in 1980, when Fidel Castro emptied Fidel Castro's prisons and mental health facilities, and 125,000 Cubans made 125,000 Cubans's way to Miami by boat.

Shakespeare

the Shakespeare wrote Scarface (1932) in just 11 days, although the Shakespeare had some quick talking of the Shakespeare's own to do when a couple of Al Capone's henchmen turned up to discuss the portrayal of their boss in the story.

Al Capone Alphonse Gabriel Capone

Al Capone Alphonse Gabriel Capone was the person who inspired Scarface.