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Arrogant Cuban thug Tony Montana (Al Pacino) immigrates to Miami, Florida. Upon arrival, Tony and his best friend, partner in crime and womanizer Manny Riberia (Steven Bauer) are sent to a detention camp called "Freedomtown". After Tony willingly eliminates Emilio Rebenga (Roberto Contreras) Fidel Castro's former assistant, Tony, Manny and their cronies are released. After Omar Suarez (F. Murray Abraham) right-hand man of cocaine kingpin Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia) whom hired Tony to kill Rebenga sends Tony, Manny and their cronies to do a drug deal with the Colombians which goes wrong and Angel Fernandez (Pepe Serna) is brutally killed. Tony and Manny meet Frank Lopez and become his employees and Tony develops forbidden romantic feelings for Lopez's girlfriend Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeiffer). But, things begin to change when Tony reunites with his beautiful sister Gina (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantino) and Tony meets the ruthless and dangerous Bolivian drug lord Alejandro Sosa (Paul Shenar) and makes a unauthorized business deal which displeases Frank whom warns Tony about Sosa. After an assassination attempt on his own life and discovering Frank sent them which Tony kills him in retaliation, Tony takes over and becomes the new cocaine kingpin. But, things soon start going out of control when Frank becomes a cocaine addict and Sosa sends Tony to NYC to assassinate a journalist, but Tony refuses to kill him and things get much worse when Tony returns to Miami and kills Manny when he learns Manny and Gina got married and Manny broke his promise to Tony that he wouldn't get sexually involved with Gina and Tony brings Gina back to his mansion unaware Sosa has sent an army of assassins to the mansion to get rid of Tony.

Because he was hired to. This is clearly explained.

Who says they didn't? A chainsaw may be a peculiar sound coming from a beach front motel room, but most people would probably dismiss it as someone doing renovations or coming from behind the motel (such as trimming back tree branches). Angel's screams were muffled by the duct tape on his mouth and the TV being turned up loud. Otherwise people may have just decided to mind their own business.

Because when Rebenga was part of Castro's regime, he had Frank's brother tortured and killed. So Frank hired Tony and Manny to kill Rebenga. Tony was essentially telling Rebenga he was killing him as a favor to Tony's friend that Rebenga has wronged.

No, it was Miami beach. Plenty of gorgeous women in bikinis strolling by. Manny simply got distracted by them.

It isn't stated, but he mentions having men under his command. So he's likely a Detective Lieutenant in the Vice squad.

Scarface (1983) is a remake of Scarface (1932), which was adapted by American playwright and screenwriter Ben Hecht from the novel Scarface (1930), written by American author Maurice Coons (1902-1930) under the pen name Armitage Trail. The original film, however, is set in Chicago during the era of Prohibition (1920 to 1933) and features Italian-American mobsters (not explicitly identified as Mafia).

Tony lied about his mother being dead because he knew that if he had told the immigration agents that his mother was alive and living in America, they would very likely have contacted her for information about Tony, and she would no doubt tell them what a bad person she thought he was, therefore refusing him entry into the United States.

Yes. In 2006, two games based directly on the film were made—Scarface: The World Is Yours for Playstation 2, Xbox, PC and Wii; and Scarface: Money. Power. Respect. for the Playstation Portable. In addition to those games, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) takes a lot of inspiration from the film. The look and feel of Vice City closely resembles Miami as it looks in the film. The city's nightclub—the Malibu Club—is almost identical to the club Tony visits, and the player can visit a hidden bathroom with blood on the wall next to the bathtub—an obvious reference to the chainsaw scene. Also the Diaz mansion that Tommy, the protagonist, later inherits is obviously heavily inspired by Tony's mansion. The story incorporates a lot of features from the film (such as working your way to the top of the city's crime ranks, and even taking over a mansion from a former boss. The mansion a near exact replica of Tony's). Although not primarily inspired by the classic film, Grand Theft Auto V has a protagonist whose "special ability" is reminiscent if not inspired by Tony's resilience and adeptness when defending his home at the end of Scarface.

In order to receive a rating of 18 or lower by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) and be screened publicly in the UK accordingly back in the day, initial releases there were trimmed. Brian De Palma's action classic was cut for the VHS release by CIC and so was the First Edition by Universal. Both versions lacks one scene, namely the chainsaw butchery. The theatrical version in the UK was equally cut. Any other edition in the UK is uncut.