Howard Hawks Reflects on ‘Scarface’ (1932): Violence as Storytelling Catalyst “We made ‘Scarface’ (1932) because the violence of this particular era was interesting. ‘Scarface’ is still being copied—and hence still lives. There were fifteen murders in Scarface, and people said I was crazy to have so many. But I knew that was the story: violence made the story. Also, in practice, all the gangster movies that have followed Scarface only reiterated the same material. Similarly, when I made ‘Red Riv