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"Scarface" is the perfect blend of cautionary tale and tantalizing glimpse into a world of glamour — and danger. Take our quiz to see how much you remember about this iconic gangster flick.Fans first said hello to Frank's little friend when the film premiered on Dec. 9, 1983.
Montana left Cuba for the U.S. during the Mariel exodus of 1980.
Actor Steven Bauer, who played Tony's buddy Manny, was the only actor of Cuban descent in the movie.
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Cocaine dealer Frank Lopez offers Tony and his friends a deal that will reward them with a green card for their services.
Angel is dismembered in the shower with a chainsaw by Hector the Toad during a drug deal gone wrong.
Michelle Pfeiffer stars as Frank's woman Elvira Hancock, who later causes big trouble between Tony and Frank.
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Tony has a close — maybe too close — relationship with little sister Gina, played by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
Bolivian gangster Alejandro Sosa kills Omar by hanging him from a helicopter.
Tony personally takes out Frank Lopez after Frank orders a failed hit on Tony's life.
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Tony kills Manny on the spot when he catches Manny with his sister, who reveals that she and Manny had just been married.
Tony crosses Sosa and cancels the hit on the journalist after the journalist unexpectedly brings his family along.
One of Sosa's henchmen, The Skull, fatally shoots Tony at his mansion at the end of the film.
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Tony Montana meets his end next to a brass globe marked with the slogan "the world is yours."
The name is uttered just once, in its Spanish form — cara cicatriz.
Oliver Stone named Tony Montana after Joe Montana from the San Francisco 49ers, his favorite team.
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Contrary to rumor, that white stuff Pacino was sniffing was powdered milk, not actual cocaine.
The f-bomb is uttered 207 times, or once every 1.21 minutes, in "Scarface."
This legendary film cost just $25 million to make. While it was a modest success at the time, it was dwarfed at the box office by "Jaws," which came out that same year.
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It's hard to believe that the iconic "Scarface" made just $4.6 million its first weekend. It went on to gross $45 million domestically and $20 million overseas.
The film wasn't even nominated for an Academy Award.
The film was inspired by a 1932 film also called "Scarface" that told the story of Chicago crime boss Johnny Lovo.
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Al Pacino wanted to remake the film after seeing a revival showing of the 1932 movie. He approached Martin Bregman with the idea, who went on to produce the 1983 version of "Scarface."
The 1929 "Scarface" novel by Maurice Coons was loosely based on mobster Al Capone.
Pacino was set against Pfeiffer, but producer Martin Bregman believed in the young actress and insisted that she get the part.
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Trying to beat a tough cocaine addiction, Stone retreated to Paris to change his routine and draft the screenplay for "Scarface."
Tony and Manny end up in a Miami refuge camp called Freedom Town when they first arrive in the U.S.
Actress Miriam Colon, who played Tony's mother, was only four years older than Al Pacino at the time.
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F. Murray Abraham played Omar, who gets Tony in big trouble with Frank when he is killed in Bolivia.
Robert Loggia played Lopez, who brings Tony into the mob and loses both his woman and his life to Montana.
Just 8 years after "Scarface," Pfeiffer and Pacino reunited for "Frankie and Johnny," a Garry Marshall drama about a waitress and an ex-con who fall in love.
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