Once upon a time, in the early 30s, gangster movies were all the rage. Tommy guns, the Chicago skyline and prohibition speakeasies filled the big screen as hardboiled men treated the world as their own personal oyster.
In much the same vein Jonas Högberg & Anders Hultqvist share their opinions on Scarface, the perhaps most "dangerous" of the early gangster movies. Paul Muni excels as the titular hoodlum in a performance that combines the mannerisms of Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld and the Italian American-schtick of Chico Marx.
Director Howard Hawks shows his dick, people are ducking bullets for real, a secretary pulls a gun on a telephone, The Penguin plays a police chief, cigars the size of logs are being chewed and people say things like "Say, what's the big idea".
Oh, and there's no music. No music! At all! Jonas & Anders are enthralled.
"I'm all hollow inside."
Pod Hard bon bons of 2020
Action Movie History 1939 (Stagecoach)
Action Movie History 1937 (The Prisoner of Zenda)
Action Movie History Michael Curtiz+Errol Flynn Special (GUEST: Alex Rallo)
Action Movie History 1935 (Top Hat)
Action Movie History 1934 (The Man Who Knew Too Much)
Action Movie History 1933 (Keisatsukan)
Action Movie History 1933 (Footlight Parade)
Action Movie History 1933 (King Kong)
Action Movie History 1930 (Hell's Angels)
Action Movie History 1929 (Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü)
Action Movie History 1928 (Steamboat Bill Jr)
Action Movie History 1927 (Wings)
Action Movie History 1926 (The General)
Action Movie History 1925 (Orochi)
Action Movie History 1924 (Sherlock Jr & Girl Shy)
Action Movie History 1923 (Safety Last & Our Hospitality)
Action Movie History 1922 (The Three Must-Get-Theres)
Action Movie History 1921 (The Three Musketeers)
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