CREDITS SCARFACE, 1983 dir: Brian de Palma Al Pacino Steven Bauer Michelle Pfeiffer F Murray Abraham

“You wanna fuck with me? Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend!”

Another one of those movies where the critics got it totally wrong. Trashed on its first release, Brian de Palma's updating of the old gangster story – it's basically Richard III with coke, scripted by Oliver Stone – is now regarded as a classic.

When Fidel Castro opened up the harbour at Mariel in May 1980 to allow 125,000 Cubans to join relatives in the US, he took the opportunity to export some of the countryís toughest criminals. Smalltime thug Tony Montana (Al Pacino) grabs the opportunity to make it as a big-time drug lord.

Set in Miami and Bolivia, the movie’s locations are mostly divided between Florida and California.

The ‘Florida’ internment camp, where Montana wins his freedom by killing a Castro agent, was constructed under the knot of freeway interchanges at the intersection of I-10, the Santa Monica freeway, and I-110, the Harbor Freeway, downtown LA behind the New LA Convention Center.

Miamiís ‘Little Havana’ district, where Montana starts out working at the ‘El Paraiso’ lunch stand, was recreated at Little Tokyo in downtown LA.

Montana’s arrival in the art deco district of Miami Beach is impossible to fake, though, and was shot on Ocean Drive at 13th Street. The ‘Sun Ray Apartments’, where Montana’s brother is dismembered by chainsaw, has been revamped to become Johnny Rocketís, 728 Ocean Drive between the Beacon and Colony hotels near 7th Street.

The movieís two estates, one supposedly in ‘Bolivia’, one in ‘Florida’, are both in the town of Montecito, on the California coast a few miles east of Santa Barbara.

Sosaís ‘South American’ estate, where Omar is ousted, is a rococo Spanish hacienda designed by architect Addison Mizener. Montanaís own ‘Coral Gables’ estate is El Fureidis (ëLittle Paradiseí), a Mediterranean villa built for Waldron Gillespie, a wealthy upstate New Yorker, by Bertram Goodhue. Neither estate is open to the public.

Scarface location: Tony Montana and Manny Ray chill out: Fontainebleau Hilton Resort and Spa, Miami

The luxury hotel grounds, where Montana and pal Manny Ray (Steven Bauer) ogle women, are of the Fontainebleau Hilton Resort and Spa, 4441 Collins Avenue. The hotel was famously seen in Goldfinger, and featured in The Bodyguard, with Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner.

Scarface location: the bomb attempt: Tudor City Place, East 41st Street, New York

In New York, the Gothic apartment block of the intended bomb victim is 5 Tudor City Place at East 41st Street, which was home to Tom Hanks in Splash! and to Norman Osborn in both Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2.