Paul Muni’s face, scarred of course, but that’s not the fixation; it’s the jowls and the jaw and the fact that they appear to betray the weight of his murderous crimes. It is a face like baked bread, a soft crust above shifting tectonic plates. The fault line scores the left side of his face.
SCARFACE
Howard Hawks
1932
Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, George Raft
Screenplay by Ben Hecht, Seton I. Miller, John Lee Mahin and W. R. Burnett; adapted from the novel Scarface by Armitage Trail