The Scarface Mob

The Scarface Mob
Directed byPhil Karlson
Written byPaul Monash
Based onthe book by Elliot Ness and Oscar Fraley
Produced byQuinn Martin
StarringRobert Stack
CinematographyCharles Straumer
Edited byRobert L. Swanson
Music byWilbur Hatch
Production
company
Desilu Productions
Release date
  • April 20, 1959 (1959-04-20)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$400,000[1]

The Scarface Mob is an American film noir crime film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Robert Stack. It consists of the pilot episodes for the TV series The Untouchables (1959) that originally screened as a two-part installment of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse on April 20 and 27 1959. The episodes were cut together and released theatrically as a stand-alone feature outside America in 1959 and inside the US in 1962.[2][3]

  1. ^ Bush, Thomas W. (7 July 1959). "Movies' New Role: More Producers Turn To TV Films to Offset Drop in Theater-Going How Desilu Builds Profits; Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Hutton Make Switch Taking a Flyer on Pilots Movies' New Role: More Producers Turn Out Films for Television". Wall Street Journal. p. 1.
  2. ^ Lambert, David (9 May 2017). "The Scarface Mob". TV Shows on DVD. Archived from the original on 12 May 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
  3. ^ SCARFACE MOB, The Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 27, Iss. 312, (Jan 1, 1960): 39.