In 1931, director Howard Hawks' Scarface, the first movie in which a gangster uses a machine gun, attracts the attention of Will Hays. Hired by studio heads in 1922 to fend off charges of industry ...

Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932). Since then it has been one of the most popular genres in cinema, producing such classics as The Godfather (1972), Scarface (1983 ...