Armitage Trail - SCARFACE 1932 United Artists Photoplay Paul Muni

Scarface - PhotoPlay Edition [ 1932 United Artists Film starring Paul Muni, George Raft & Boris Karloff ] Digitally Remastered Dustjacket Only [Book is NOT included] Armitage Trail © 1932 - A. L. Burt Printing - American Pre-Code Gangster Film H igh Quality Digitally Remastered Laser Reproduction of Original Dustjacket We will be offering a selection of several digitally remastered dustjackets in our eBay listings !! Here is a nice opportunity to enjoy the original artwork while saving on the cost of an original dustjacket. See my listings for more. Several different classic PhotoPlay & mystery jackets available. All digitally remastered dustjackets are shipped in a removable, Brodart or Demco archival dustjacket protector, and are ready to place on your book. Due to the scarcity of this dustjacket, I have added an embossed digital watermark to these images to avoid unauthorized duplication. The embossed watermark will NOT appear over the artwork on the front panel. 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Any extra postage charged at eBay checkout will be refunded. About Title: Here is a novel that strips the cloak of secrecy from gangland and shows the reader the daily lives of the spectacular crime barons who observe no code but their own and who bow to no law save that of the gun. Armitage Trail knows the underworld from exhaustive personal contact with it and he tells here the most thrilling and interesting, yet at the same time, the most accurate story that has yet been written about these strange modern gunmen about whom we read so much and of whose lives -- and deaths -- we really know so little. About Author: Armitage Trail was a pseudonym of Maurice Coons [1902-30], a writer of American pulp fiction.  It is speculated that he wrote numerous pulp stories that appeared in many magazines under various pen names.  Without doubt his greatest work was SCARFACE based on the life of notorious Chicago gangster Al Capone.  He sold the film rights to Howard Hughes for $25,000.  Hughes hired W.R. Burnett to work on the screenplay for the film version starring Paul Muni.  Coons struggled with alcoholism and died of heart failure in October 1930. About Movie: Italian mob leader Big Louie Costillo is killed by Tony Camonte, setting off gang wars over the control of Chicago's bootlegging business. Under orders from their boss Johnny Lovo, Tony and Guino Rinaldo terrorize South side bars to maintain it as Lovo's territory. Afterward, they go on a several month long shooting spree, killing innocent bystanders as well as intended victims. When Tony kills O'Hara, the North side boss, Lovo becomes scared. Poppy, Lovo's mistress, visits Tony, and he shows her the neon Cook's Tours sign outside his window that has become his slogan: "The World Is Yours." Tony takes over the North side, and goes on another shooting spree. On St. Valentine's Day, seven gangsters are lined up in a garage and shot execution style. After Tony kills the last of the big gang leaders, he goes to the Paradise Club, where he sees his sister Cesca dancing with a man. In a jealous rage, Tony takes her home and beats her. Then, when he leaves, he is chased by unknown gangsters. Both cars go over the side of the road, but Tony survives. When he finds out that Lovo set him up, Tony and Guino kill him, then Tony and Poppy hide out in Florida for a month. While they are gone, Guino and Cesca fall in love and marry. Tony returns to find Guino in Cesca's apartment and kills him before she can explain that they were married. A short time later, the police surround Tony's apartment, and he and Cesca fight them off until she dies of a gunshot wound. Finally, Tony surrenders after his room is inundated with tear gas and he cannot stand to be alone. At the last minute, he makes a dash for freedom, but is gunned down by the police and dies under the Cook's Tours sign. [ Credit :  TCM] The movie cast included:   [ Citation :  Internet Movie Database - IMDB] Actor/Actress: Role: Paul Muni Ann Dvorak Karen Morley Osgood Perkins C. Henry Gordon George Raft Vince Barnett Boris Karloff Purnell Pratt Tully Marshall Inez Palange Edwin Maxwell Harry J. Vejar Howard Hawks Antonio "Tony" Camonte Francesca "Cesca" Camonte Poppy John "Johnny" Lovo Police Inspector Ben Guarino Guino "Little Boy" Rinaldo Angelo Tom Gaffney Publisher Garston Managing Editor Mrs. Camonte, Tony's Mother Chief of Detectives "Big" Louis Costillo (uncredited) Man on Bed (uncredited)