Audiences Hated Mel Brooks’ Dracula Spoof, but the Delightfully Dumb Gem Knew Exactly What It Was Doing

This wasn’t a misfire from a director who’d lost his touch. It was a love letter to a genre he knew inside and out.
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The best 1930s movies: 20 of the greatest films of the '30s

Here, Scarface is Tony Camonte, an Al Capone-like Italian gangster running booze on the South Side of 30s Chicago. He’s ...