Word: muni
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scarface (United Artists?Howard Hughes) is a grisly, exciting gangster picture, based in part upon the career of Alphonse ("Scarface," "Snorkey") Capone. Its vicious hero, one Tony (Paul Muni), ingeniously wins the affection of a public enemy named Lovo (Osgood Perkins) by murdering his own superior. He then embarks upon a career of informal executions, becoming invaluable to Lovo and attractive to Lovo's Poppy (Karen Morley). Presently dissension occurs between Tony and Lovo. Tony wipes out Lovo and leaves for Florida with Poppy...
Counsellor-at-Law. Playwright Elmer Rice (born Reizenstein), was once a lawyer. He has now written a drama about a successful legal light named George Simon (Paul Muni). Mr. Simon, when the play begins, is sitting on top of the world but it so happens that he has a stain on his otherwise unblemished past. A kind man, he once framed testimony on behalf of a young fourth offender who would otherwise have gotten a life sentence in prison. An enemy of Lawyer Simon discovers this lapse, comes so close to ruining Lawyer Simon that Lawyer Simon is about...
That such a dramatic idea is difficult to convey to an audience is at once apparent. Playwright Sidney R. Buchman is never able to make his theme articulate. But Actor Paul Muni (Wisenfreund)-"The Man of 1,000 Faces"-pumps life into the character of sturdy brother Saul...
...Muni Wisenfreund got a name for himself when Producer Sam Harris discovered him, presented the opportunity for his first successes in We Americans and Four Walts, in Seven Faces, a cinema (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929), his work was chiefly memorable because of the fact that he acted seven parts...