Scarface (novel) Scarface (novel) Scarface is a novel written by Armitage Trail in 1929 and published in 1930. The 1932 film "Scarface" was based on it. The twenty-eight year-old author died suddenly of a heart attack in 1930. The book's storyline is heavily inspired by the real life gangster Al Capone whose nickname was also "Scarface". It concerns the rise and fall of Tony "Scarface" Camonte, who after performing a hit on mob leader Al Springola, moves in to take over the illegal alcohol business in Chicago during the Prohibition Era. He is ultimately shot dead by his brother (who concurrently rises
Captain Scarface Captain Scarface Captain Scarface is a 1953 American thriller film directed by Paul Guilfoyle. In the waters off South America, the Soviets torpedo the tramp steamer and banana boat SS "Banos" and murder the survivors with the cooperation of the ship's radioman, Clegg who escapes with his life and a promise of $5000. The Soviets have mocked up their own ship as the SS "Banos" that contains an atomic device with the goal of sailing the "Banos" to the locks of the Panama Canal where they will detonate their ship on an atomic suicide mission. To avoid suspicion the new