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Behind the scenes: Scarface

Sample the mood on the set of one of the all-time great gangster movies, with Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer and Brian De Palma.

7 February 2014

Al Pacino (as gangster Tony Montana) and director Brian De Palma have a tête-à-tête on the set of Scarface (1983)
Michelle Pfeiffer as cocaine-addicted gangster’s moll Elvira Hancock, on location with De Palma
De Palma on location in a Cuban neighbourhood of Miami
Cinematographer John A. Alonzo behind the camera. Along with Chinatown (1974), Scarface is perhaps Alonzo’s most memorable work
De Palma checks out a shot, with cinematographer John A. Alonzo and Al Pacino standing by
Michelle Pfeiffer and Brian De Palma. Following Grease 2 (1982), Scarface was the film that propelled Pfeiffer to stardom in the 1980s. She played another gangster’s wife in the 1988 Mafia comedy Married to the Mob
Pacino and De Palma peruse the shooting script. The actor and director reteamed for another underworld tale with 1993’s Carlito’s Way
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