He eventually begins his own crime reign, and moves in to take over the illegal alcohol business in an unnamed city during the Prohibition Era, changing his surname to Camonte.

A year later, he has become the most powerful gang leader in the city, performing a series of daring killings and learns that his brother has been promoted in the police.

The police eventually go after him, and he is ultimately shot dead by his brother, the chief of Police, who fails to recognize him due to the family believing him to have died in World War I. Scarface (also known as Scarface: The Shame of the Nation and The Shame of a Nation) is a 1932 American pre-Code gangster film starring Paul Muni as Antonio "Tony" Camonte.

[3] The film features Ann Dvorak as Camonte's sister, and also stars Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, and Boris Karloff.

The film tells the story of Cuban refugee Tony Montana (Al Pacino) who arrives in 1980s to Miami with nothing and rises to become a powerful drug kingpin.