Scarface (novel) Camonte's sister, and also stars Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, and Boris Karloff. The plot centers on gang warfare and police intervention when rival gangs fight over control of Chicago. A version of the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is also depicted. The LCCN is 30008162. Scarface is a 1983 American crime film directed by Brian De Palma and written by Oliver Stone. The film tells the story of Cuban refugee Tony Montana (Al Pacino) who arrives in 1980s to Miami with nothing and rises to become a powerful drug kingpin. Rather than being a new adaptation based on the novel, the
Prestoea montana Negro State Forest, in the Puerto Rico Cordillera Central. According to studies in the Luquillo Mountains, this palm also is associated with landslides. The fruit of Prestoea montana (Sierra Palm) is the favorite food of the Puerto Rican parrot. "Prestoea montana" was described by (Graham) G.Nicholson and published in "The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening", . . . 3: 216. 1886. Prestoea: generic name in honor of Henry Prestoe (1842–1923), English botanist and traveler, who collected the plant in Trinidad.<br> montana: from the Latin, meaning "from the mountain". Prestoea montana Prestoea montana (Vernacular English: Sierran palm; Vernacular Spanish: Palma de sierra)