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• an added sub-title was required [its original title was simply Scarface, and the first suggested retitle was The
Menace] to illustrate that the film was not a glorification, but an indictment of gangsterism
• an apologetic, moral statement was tacked to the beginning of the film
• various cuts, erasures, voice-overs and changes were made throughout
• Tony Camonte's mother was shown expressing disapproval of her son's behavior - she calls him "bad" and
"no-good"
• although there are almost 30 deaths in the film, blood is never shown, and even more deaths occur off-screen
• moralistic, denunciatory speeches, in a prologue and epilogue, were added by a Chief of Detectives and a
newspaper publisher (several scenes were directed by Richard Rosson),
• "the public" is blamed for the existence of gangs, rather than law enforcement officials: "Don't blame the
police. They can't stop machine guns from being run back and forth across the state lines. They can't enforce
laws that don't exist"
• an alternative, moralistic, sermonizing (and emasculated) second ending (substituted for the shootout) was
created to condemn the gangster as cowardly and show his sentencing and retributory punishment (hanging)
by an effective justice system
• muted hints of an incestuous attachment between the main protagonist and his sister, one of the film's sub-
themes, supposedly went uncontested, or the most obvious references to incest were removed by Hawks
himself
1932 & 1983