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 Soviet Union in order to work the atomic device in exchange for the safety of his daughter and Kroll was a Soviet agent assigned to bring in the Yeagars and kill Clegg. Also on the ship is a venomous fer-de-lance snake concealed in a cargo of bananas. 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.