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The Untouchables is an autobiographical memoir about Eliot Ness ghostwritten by Oscar Fraley, published in 1957. The book deals with the experiences of Eliot Ness, a federal agent in the Bureau of Prohibition, as he fights crime in Chicago in the late 1920s and early 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their incorruptibility, nicknamed the Untouchables.
The main part of the book is written in first-person anecdotal style, as if directly from Ness's reminiscences; a foreword and afterword by Fraley provide historical context. In fact, Fraley, who was a prominent sportswriter for United Press when he worked on the book, did most of the writing, although Ness approved the final version of the text shortly before his death.[citation needed]


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 Lyle Chapman ·
 Thomas Friel ·
 Joseph Leeson ·
 Paul W. Robsky ·
 Michael King ·
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 Others: Jim Seeley ·
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 Unofficial (ie, non-agent): Frank Basile
 

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Prohibition ·
 Volstead Act
 

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Chicago Outfit ·
 Al Capone ·
 Also: Frank Nitti
 


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Bureau of Prohibition ·
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 Frank J. Wilson ·
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Book
The Untouchables (1957 book) ·
 Authors: Eliot Ness ·
 Oscar Fraley
 

Media
The Untouchables (1959 TV series) (episode list) ·
 The Untouchables (film) (1987) ·
 The Untouchables (video game) (1989) ·
 The Untouchables (1993 TV series) (episode list)
 

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The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
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The Untouchables
Untouchables 1959.jpg
Genre
Crime drama
Starring
Robert Stack
Abel Fernandez
Nicholas Georgiade
Paul Picerni
Steve London
Bruce Gordon
Neville Brand
Theme music composer
Nelson Riddle
Composer(s)
Jack Cookerly
William Loose
Nelson Riddle
Pete Rugolo
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
4
No. of episodes
118 & 2-part pilot (List of episodes)
Production

Executive producer(s)
Alan A. Armer
Desi Arnaz
Leonard Freeman
Quinn Martin
Jerry Thorpe
Mike Hunt
Producer(s)
Alan A. Armer
Alvin Cooperman
Walter Grauman
Bert Granet
 Paul Harrison
 Herman Hoffman
 Sidney Marshall
Vincent McEveety
Del Reisman
 Norman Retchin
 Lloyd Richards
Stuart Rosenberg
 Charles Russell
 Josef Shaftel
Cinematography
Robert B. Hauser
 Glen MacWilliams
 Charles Straumer
Camera setup
Single-camera
Running time
50 minutes
Production company(s)
Desilu Productions
 Langford Productions
Distributor
Paramount Domestic Television
CBS Paramount Domestic Television (2006-2007)
CBS Television Distribution (2007-)
Broadcast

Original channel
ABC
Picture format
Black-and-white
Audio format
Monaural
Original run
October 15, 1959 – May 21, 1963
The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC Television Network. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized Ness' experiences as a Prohibition agent, fighting crime in Chicago in the 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their courage, moral character and incorruptibility, nicknamed the Untouchables. The book was later made into a film in 1987 (also called The Untouchables) by Brian De Palma, with a script by David Mamet, and a second less successful TV series in 1993.
A powerful, hard-hitting crime drama, and a landmark police series, [1] The Untouchables won series star Robert Stack an Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series in 1960.[2]


Contents  [hide]
1 Series overview 1.1 Controversy
1.2 Opening Credits Book Cover Art Error
1.3 Episodes and cast
2 Guest stars
3 Broadcast history
4 Episodes
5 DVD releases 5.1 DVD releases
5.2 Region 2
6 Further reading
7 Notes
8 External links

Series overview[edit]



 Stack as Eliot Ness with Gloria Talbott, 1962.
The stories often revolved around Ness' enmity with the criminal empire of Chicago mob boss Al Capone, and many focused on crimes related to Prohibition. The show stars Robert Stack as Eliot Ness and was narrated by Walter Winchell. Neville Brand played Al Capone in the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse episodes, and in a few episodes of the regular series. This series focused on the efforts of the real-life Federal Special Squad, led by Eliot Ness, that destroyed the bootleg empire of "Scarface" Al Capone.This squad was nicknamed The Untouchables, because of their courage and honesty; they could not be bribed or intimidated by the Mob.[3][4][5]
The pilot for the series - a feature length TV movie later marketed as "The Scarface Mob"—was first broadcast on January 22, 1959 on CBS. It dealt with Ness's crusade to put Al Capone in prison. The weekly series first began broadcasting on October 1959, with the plotline commencing from the power struggle within the mob to establish the new mob boss in Capone's absence (for the purpose of the TV series, the new boss was Frank Nitti, although this was contrary to fact). In the pilot movie the mobsters generally spoke with a Chico Marx-style Italian accent, but this idiosyncratic pronunciation was dropped when the series itself debuted. When this pilot proved popular, CBS, which up to that point, broadcast most of Desilu's TV series since the popular I Love Lucy in 1951, was offered the new series, but CBS Chairman William S. Paley rejected it on the advice of network vice president Hubbell Robinson. ABC, however, agreed to air the series, and so The Untouchables premiered on ABC in the Fall of 1959, starring motion picture actor Robert Stack.[6] Early in the first season of the series, perhaps also in response to some public criticism, the character of "Agent Rossi", identified as a person of Italian extraction, was added to Ness's team as a driver and later became a full agent, despite Rossi having no previous training or experience in law enforcement. Rossi was given a back-story — that of a barber who was deeply traumatized when one of his customers (a mobster) and a young co-worker (a manicurist named Tessie DiGiovanna) were machine-gunned by Frank Nitti with an accomplice. Before one of the mobsters could escape, Enrico attacked and killed him by slashing him with a straight razor; he later testified against Nitti.
Controversy[edit]
The show drew harsh criticism from some Italian-Americans including Frank Sinatra,[7] who felt it promoted negative stereotypes of them as mobsters and gangsters. The Capone family unsuccessfully sued the Columbia Broadcasting System,(CBS), Desilu Productions and Westinghouse Electric Corporation for its depiction of the Capone family.
On March 9, 1961, Anthony Anastasio, chief of the Brooklyn waterfront and its International Longshoremen's Association, marched in line with a picket group who identified themselves as “The Federation of Italian-American Democratic Organizations.” In protest formation outside the American Broadcasting Company, (ABC) New York headquarters, they had come together to urge the public boycott of L&M, (Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company) products, and its Chesterfield King cigarettes, which sponsored The Untouchables. They expressed displeasure with the program, which to them vilified Italian-Americans, stereotyping them as the singular criminal element. The boycott and the attendant firestorm of publicity had the effect Anastasio and his confederates wanted. Four days after the picket of ABC, L&M, denying that they had bowed to intimidation, announced it would drop its sponsorship of The Untouchables, maintaining their decision was based on network-scheduling conflicts. The following week, the head of the production studio Desilu, Desi Arnaz (who had attended high school with Capone's son Albert), in concert with ABC and the “Italian-American League to Combat Defamation,” issued a formal three-point manifesto:
There will be no more fictional hoodlums with Italian names in future productions.
There will be more stress on the law-enforcement role of “Rico Rossi”, Ness’s right-hand man on the show.
There will be an emphasis on the “formidable influence” of Italian-American officials in reducing crime and an emphasis on the “great contributions” made to American culture by Americans of Italian descent.[8]
The Untouchables was considered one of the most violent television shows when it aired and was described by the National Association for Better Radio and Television "not fit for the television screen".[9]
In an article titled "The New Enemies of 'The Untouchables'"[10] Ayn Rand argued that the persistent, superficial attacks received by The Untouchables were due to its appeal and its virtues: its moral conflict and moral purpose.
Opening Credits Book Cover Art Error[edit]
The book cover art displayed at the beginning of each episode included an obvious error. The image depicted a cement walled warehouse stained with what appears to be blood, seven large wooden barrels, and what the casual observer would think was a 1930's Tommy Gun (aka Thompson M1928 .45ACP Sub-Machine Gun with a Type C Drum Magazine) popular with the underworld of the period. In fact, the Book Cover's artist had chosen to depict the image of a Russian PPSh-41 7.62mm Sub-Machine Gun with a drum magazine, produced after 1941[citation needed]. Some theories for the unknown artist having used a Russian weapon in the art, include the thought that it was a pointed remark toward the series infamous narrator Walter Winchell and his penchant for labeling people he didn't like by calling them "Commies", "Pinkos" and "Reds!"[citation needed]
Episodes and cast[edit]



 The cast from left: Abel Fernandez, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni, (seated) Robert Stack.


 Neville Brand as Al Capone.
The series had 118 episodes which ran 50 minutes each. Though the book it was based upon chronicled the experiences of Ness and his cohorts over a span of time ranging from 1929 to 1935, the overwhelming majority of the television episodes were broadcast in no chronological timeline, but were set mostly in the early 1930s (for example, one episode, "You Can't Pick the Number", begins with Winchell's words, "October 1932 ... the depth of the Depression"). A few episodes were set primarily in a locale other than Chicago (such as the one dealing with the shootout involving Ma Barker and her gang.) Characters and "facts" in the majority of the episodes were more often than not entirely fictitious or loosely-based composites of true-life criminals of that era. The gripping theme music was by Nelson Riddle.
Quinn Martin produced the show's first season, which contained elements that could be found in future TV series produced by Martin.[11]
The Untouchables were portrayed by:
Abel Fernandez as Agt. William Youngfellow**
Nick Georgiade as Agt. Enrico "Rico" Rossi
Paul Picerni as Agt. Lee Hobson, (2nd season on)
Steve London as Agt. Jack Rossman*
Other "Untouchables" members were portrayed by :
Jerry Paris as Agt. Martin Flaherty, (1st season only)
Chuck Mitchell Hicks as Agt. LaMarr Kane (1st season only)
Anthony George as Agt. Cam Allison, (1st season only)
Keenan Wynn as Agt. Joe Fuselli (pilot episode only)
Other recurrent actors were:
Bruce Gordon as Frank Nitti
Frank Dekova as Jimmy Napoli
Neville Brand as Al Capone
Raymond Bailey as US Attorney for New York John Carvell
Frank Wilcox as Federal District Attorney Beecher Asbury
Robert Bice as Police Capt.Johnson
Announcer: Les Lampson - Very distinctive dramatic voice.
Narrator: Walter Winchell
* Contrary to popular belief, Steve London's character of Untouchable Jack Rossman (played in the "Scarface Mob" pilot by Paul Dubov), was in the series since the original season 1 series episode, "The Empty Chair", not from Season 2 on as is commonly reported.
** The character of Untouchable William Youngfellow, portrayed by Abel Fernandez, has been mistakenly referred to by Saturday Night Live actor Dan Aykroyd as "Youngblood". This name is incorrect.
Guest stars[edit]
A significant number of guest-stars from The Untouchables were and became major motion picture and television stars: including the following,
Edward Asner in S3,E16 "The Death Tree" S4,E1 "The Night They Shot Santa Claus", S4,E8 "Elegy", S4,E13 "Search for A Dead Man"
Charles Bronson in S3,E16 "The Death Tree"
Victor Buono as Melanthos Moon S2,E25 "Mr. Moon" and as Parnise Surigao S3,E13 "The Gang War"
James Caan in S4,E10 "A Fist of Five"
James Coburn in S2,E16 "The Jamaica Ginger Story"
Robert Duvall in season 4,episode 17 "Blues for a Gone Goose"
Peter Falk in S1,E26 "The Underworld Bank" and as Nate Selko in S3,E1 "The Troubleshooter"
Clegg Hoyt as Larry in S2,E16 "The Jamaica Ginger Story"
Brian Keith as Jim Martinson in S2,E16 "The Jamaica Ginger Story" * George Kennedy as Birdie the Mute S2,E30 "The King of Champagne"
Jack Klugman in S3,E6 "Loophole", S4,E19 "An Eye for an Eye"
Jack Lord in S1,E3 "The Jake Lingle Killing"
Lee Marvin in S2,E31 "The Nick Acropolis Story", S3,E19 "Element of Danger", S4,E10 "A Fist of Five"
Elizabeth Montgomery as Rusty Heller (for which she received an Emmy Award nomination) (1960) S2,E1 "The Rusty Heller Story"
Carroll O'Connor in S3,E2 "Power Play", S4,E6 "Bird in the Hand"
Nehemiah Persoff as Jake Guzik in three episodes, S1,E1 "The Empty Chair", S2,E29 "The Seventh Vote", S4,E12 "Doublecross", also S1,E27 "Head of Fire, Feet of Clay", S2,E4 "The Waxey Gordon Story", S3,E18 "The Stryker Brothers"
Paul Picerni as Lee Hobson in S2,E16 "The Jamaica Ginger Story"
Robert Redford as Jack Parker in S4,E15 "Snowball"
Cliff Robertson as Frank Halloway in S1,E12 "The Underground Railway"
Telly Savalas in S2,E20 "The Antidote", S3,E5 "The Matt Bass Scheme", S4,E14 "The Speculator"
Barbara Stanwyck in S4,E8 "Elegy", S4,E13 "Search for a Dead Man"
Lee Van Cleef in S1,E20 "The Unhired Assassin"
Jack Warden in S1,E3 "The George 'Bugs' Moran Story, S1,E27 Head of Fire, Feet of Clay, S2,E10 "The Otto Frick Story"
Broadcast history[edit]
The Untouchables originally aired as a segment on the anthology series Desilu Playhouse, in 1959, on CBS. It was picked up as a regular series by ABC for the 1959 season and was aired on Thursdays from 9:30-10:30 pm from 1959-1962, switching to Tuesday evenings from 10:00-11:00 pm for its final season (1962-1963). (The last time change had it replacing the sitcom Margie, (starring Cynthia Pepper) which had been cancelled).
Desilu Productions president Desi Arnaz had originally signed actor Van Johnson as Ness. Johnson's wife (and manager) rejected the deal and demanded double the salary based on the Desilu Playhouse episode running for two hours. Arnaz refused and signed Stack instead. Arnaz also created a controversy by selling the series to ABC. Arnaz had had a long business relationship with CBS, which had aired many Desilu programs (including I Love Lucy and the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour). When CBS refused to buy the program, Arnaz then sold it to ABC, his first major sale to that network.[12]
In 1961, Neville Brand reprised his role as Al Capone in the movie "The George Raft Story".
Some segments were released to theaters as movies: "The Scarface Mob" (from the 2-part pilot), "The Alcatraz Express" (from "The Big Train"), and "The Gun Of Zangara" (from "Unhired Assassin").
On 10 November 1991, NBC ran the 2-hour movie "The Return Of Eliot Ness", with Robert Stack back as Ness. Set in 1947, Capone had died and Ness was investigating the death of an Untouchables agent named Labine.
Episodes[edit]
Main article: List of The Untouchables (1959 TV series) episodes
In 1997, the episode "The Rusty Heller Story" was ranked #99 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.[13]
DVD releases[edit]
DVD releases[edit]
CBS DVD (distributed by Paramount) have released all four seasons of The Untouchables on DVD in Region 1. The first two seasons have also been released in Region 4. Season 4 volumes 1 & 2 were released on July 24, 2012 in Region 1.[14]

DVD Name
Ep #
Release dates

Region 1
Region 4
Season 1- Volume 1 14 + pilot April 10, 2007[15] September 30, 2009[16]
Season 1- Volume 2 14 September 25, 2007[17] September 30, 2009[18]
Season 2- Volume 1 16 March 18, 2008[19] September 30, 2009[20]
Season 2- Volume 2 16 August 26, 2008[21] September 30, 2009[22]
Season 3- Volume 1 16 August 25, 2009[23] N/A
Season 3- Volume 2 12 November 10, 2009[24] N/A
Season 4- Volume 1 15 July 24, 2012 N/A
Season 4- Volume 2 15 July 24, 2012 N/A
Region 2[edit]
Paramount Home Entertainment has released the first three seasons of The Untouchables on DVD in the UK. These releases are full season sets as opposed to Region 1 and 4 where each season has been split into two volumes.

DVD Name
Ep #
Release Date
Season 1 28 August 18, 2008[25]
Season 2 32 September 14, 2009[26]
Season 3 28 September 20, 2010[27]
Season 4 30 TBA
Further reading[edit]
Tucker, Kenneth. Eliot Ness and the Untouchables: The Historical Reality and the Film and Television Depictions. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2000. ISBN 0-7864-0772-7
Vahimagi, Tise. "The Untouchables" London, England: BFI Publishing, 1998. ISBN 0-85170-563-4 (Detailed study of the series and episode guide)
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.eonline.com/news/45150/tv-s-untouchable-dies
2.Jump up ^ http://movies.yahoo.com/person/robert-stack/biography.html
3.Jump up ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=2DY0Ix4_Qk4C&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=The+Untouchables+could+not+be+bribed+or+intimidated+by+the+Mob.&source=bl&ots=_XQXctDAS2&sig=SFLWgQZ6SOj2jV1hhKsNqwfTMcE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5WydUsLmB4_aoASbmYKQBw&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Untouchables%20could%20not%20be%20bribed%20or%20intimidated%20by%20the%20Mob.&f=false
4.Jump up ^ tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheUntouchables
5.Jump up ^ http://www.netplaces.com/mafia/the-real-untouchables/the-taxman-cometh.htm
6.Jump up ^ http://www.thebhc.org/publications/BEHprint/v012/p0056-p0073.pdf
7.Jump up ^ Talese, Gay: "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold", page 27. Esquire, April 1966
8.Jump up ^ Harris, Jay S., in association with the editors of TV Guide, “TV Guide: The First 25 Years,” Simon & Schuster, 1978, p. 52-53, ISBN 0-671-23065-4
9.Jump up ^ The Palm Beach Post - Jul 16, 1961, pg 5, http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tgAjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=K80FAAAAIBAJ&pg=901,2668583&dq=
10.Jump up ^ "The New Enemies of 'The Untouchables'", http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_nonfiction_the_ayn_rand_column
11.Jump up ^ Etter, Jonathan. Quinn Martin, Producer. Jefferson: McFarland, 2003.
12.Jump up ^ Warren G. Harris 'Lucy & Desi'
13.Jump up ^ "Special Collectors' Issue". TV Guide (June 28-July 4). 1997.
14.Jump up ^ http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Untouchables-Season-4/16873
15.Jump up ^ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000LV6W00
16.Jump up ^ http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/808455
17.Jump up ^ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000RZIGTA
18.Jump up ^ http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/808456
19.Jump up ^ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00114XTHK
20.Jump up ^ http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/808457
21.Jump up ^ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0019F02VW
22.Jump up ^ http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/808458
23.Jump up ^ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001G0MFCE
24.Jump up ^ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001G0MFQA
25.Jump up ^ http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000RGSXW4
26.Jump up ^ http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0029KQNZU
27.Jump up ^ http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003SX0X6C
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List of The Untouchables (1959 TV series) episodes
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This is a list of episodes for the 1959–63 television series The Untouchables, starring Robert Stack as Eliot Ness.


Contents  [hide]
1 Series overview 1.1 DVD releases
2 Episodes 2.1 Season 1: 1959–60
2.2 Season 2: 1960–61
2.3 Season 3: 1961–62
2.4 Season 4: 1962–63
3 References

Series overview[edit]

Season
Episodes
Premiered:
Ended:

1
28 1959.10.15 1960.04.28

2
32 1960.10.13 1961.06.08

3
28 1961.10.12 1962.07.05

4
30 1962.09.25 1963.05.21
DVD releases[edit]
The following DVD sets have been released by Paramount Home Video.[1]

DVD set
Episodes
Release date
 The Untouchables: Season 1, Volume 1 14 2007.04.10
 The Untouchables: Season 1, Volume 2 14 2007.09.25
 The Untouchables: Season 2, Volume 1 16 2008.03.18
 The Untouchables: Season 2, Volume 2 16 2008.08.26
 The Untouchables: Season 3, Volume 1 16 2009.08.25
 The Untouchables: Season 3, Volume 2 12 2009.11.10
 The Untouchables: The 4th Season, Volume 1 14 2012.07.24
 The Untouchables: The 4th Season, Volume 2 16 2012.07.24
Episodes[edit]
Nº = Overall episode number
Ep = Episode number by season
Season 1: 1959–60[edit]

Nº
Ep
Title
Directed by:
Written by:
Original air date

1
1 "The Empty Chair" John Peyser David Karp,
 Ernest Kinoy 15 October 1959
With Capone in prison, Frank Nitti tries to grab the open top spot in the empire. But Capone's bookkeeper is giving him a run for his money.
Untouchables agent "Rico" Rossi is introduced in this episode, as a barber-turned federal agent who was a witness to Frank Nitti's murder of two top Capone lieutenants.
2
2 "Ma Barker and Her Boys" Joe Parker Jerome Ross 22 October 1959
Ness has tracked down the notorious bank robber Ma Barker, a woman who turned her back on religion in order to lead a life of crime with her sons.
3
3 "The Jake Lingle Killing" Tay Garnett Robert C. Dennis,
 Saul Levitt 29 October 1959
A newspaperman is murdered for double-crossing some mobsters. So a reward-seeking ex-con decides to work with Ness and find the killer.
4
4 "The George 'Bugs' Moran Story" Joe Parker David Karp 5 November 1959
Ness tries to get the influential president of a truckers union to stop mobster "Bugs" Moran and his crime syndicate from infiltrating the labor unions.
5
5 "Ain't We Got Fun" Roger Kay Robert C. Dennis,
 Abram S. Ginnes 12 November 1959
A successful bootlegger seizes control of a nightclub and takes its brash young comic under his wing, promising to make him a star.
6
6 "Vincent 'Mad Dog' Coll" Andrew McCullough Charles R. Marion,
 Palmer Thompson 19 November 1959
A deranged gangster kidnaps the right-hand man of mobster Dutch Schultz, then steals the horse Schultz was planning to bet on in the Kentucky Derby.
7
7 "Mexican Stake-Out" Tay Garnett Robert C. Dennis,
 Alvin Sapinsley 26 November 1959
Eliot Ness is lured south of the border to retrieve a witness who will help his case. Only it's a set-up... once there, the mobster on trial is planning to have Ness killed.
8
8 "The Artichoke King" Roger Kay Harry Essex 3 December 1959
A gangster who controls the produce market in New York has a colleague bumped off. But when the hit man he hired gets greedy, he has to get rid of him too.
9
9 "The Tri-State Gang" Allen H. Miner Joseph Petracca 10 December 1959
A notorious gang that hijacks trucks is unstoppable... until one of its members falls for a young French woman who can identify their leader. Untouchables agent LaMarr Kane (Chuck Hicks) is killed in this episode.
10
10 "The Dutch Schultz Story" Jerry Hopper Robert C. Dennis,
 Jerome Ross 17 December 1959
After Dutch Schultz gets his income tax evasion trial moved to a quiet town, he starts to have a positive effect on its citizens and eventually sways the jury.
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11 "You Can't Pick the Number" Richard Whorf Henry F. Greenberg 24 December 1959
Eliot Ness and the Untouchables set their sights shutting down the numbers racket. The numbers are like a lottery where anyone can place a bet of up to one dollar on a three digit number. The payout for a full dollar bet is $600 so the profit for the mob, who run the racket, is the remaining 40%. Ness wants to shut down that cash flow which can be used for more heinous crimes. They think they may have an in when one of Al Morrissey's collectors is stabbed. Ness pressures Agent Marty Flaherty to make contact with Morrissey, an old friend who once saved his life. Before he can do anything, the Chicago police arrest Morrissey for gambling violations and Marty focuses on Al's son, Phil Morrissey but with little luck until his father pays the price for being connected to the mob.
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12 "The Underground Railway" Walter Grauman Leonard Kantor 31 December 1959
When Frank Halloway breaks out of prison, his crooked lawyer arranges for him to follow the underground railway to Los Angeles where he hopes to collect his $250,000 share of the loot from his last job. The so-called railway is a safe route to Los Angeles with help from reliable criminal associates along the way. To help him along the way, the lawyer arranges for Mona Valentine to travel with him and pose as his wife. She does so for the money she's offered, even though she is repulsed by Halloway who is quite ugly. Along the way, however, he undergoes plastic surgery to the point that it creates a problem for him at the end of his journey. For Eliot Ness and the Untouchables, capturing Halloway is personal: Halloway killed a fellow agent.
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13 "Syndicate Sanctuary" Paul Harrison George F. Slavin 7 January 1960
With Al Capone out of the way, the mob is looking to relocate its base of operations outside of Chicago in a nearby community. Their first step is to get rid of the incorruptible mayoral candidate, Judge Leon Zabo, who they run down in the street. The Coroner's inquest is a sham and it is obvious that the Chief of Police, who appoints the Coroner, is already in the syndicate's pocket. Ness and his men move into the town intent on shutting the mob down before they even get started but the Untouchables find that they also have to protect the dead Judge's daughter, Rosetta Zabo, who has taken up his anti-corruption campaign.
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14 "The Noise of Death" Walter Grauman Ben Maddow 14 January 1960
When Eliot Ness and Agent Martin Flaherty raid a small butcher shop looking for illegal liquor, they find more the cheap booze: they find the body of the store's owner, Arturo Vittorini, in the meat locker. The dead man's wife Barbara accuses the neighborhood Mafia chief, Joe Bucco, of ordering the killing. Bucco denies having anything to do with it - the dead man was his wife's cousin - but is pretty sure his collector, Little Charlie Sebastino, is responsible. He also learns to his shock and dismay that the Mafia hierarchy has pushed him out and Little Charlie has been named as his replacement. Bucco strikes back and sabotages Sebastino's trucks but the Mafia sends him a message when they kill his driver and he knows that unless he backs off, he will be next. He gives Eliot Ness a present just in case he's knocked off.
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15 "Star Witness" Tay Garnett Charles O'Neal 21 January 1960
An accountant with a brilliant mind for numbers agrees to testify against the mob. But keeping him safe before the trial keeps Ness and his men on the run.
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16 "The St. Louis Story" Howard W. Koch Joseph Petracca 28 January 1960
The team faces a new kind of criminal when they battle the owner of the swank Jockey Club, a respectable gent who is the boss of the St. Louis underworld.
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17 "One-Armed Bandits" Walter Grauman E. Jack Neuman 4 February 1960
A newly released convict is blackmailed into running a slot-machine racket. If he refuses, his daughter will learn of his existence and be scandalized.
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18 "Little Egypt" John Peyser Joseph Petracca 11 February 1960
The department's newest agent is able to infiltrate the mob, using carrier pigeons to get information out. That is, until a woman gets him into trouble. Guest Stars: Fred Clark and Susan Cummings. Season one regular Anthony George (Untouchables agent Cam Allison) is also billed as a guest star.
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19 "The Big Squeeze" Roger Kay W.R. Burnett,
 Robert C. Dennis 18 February 1960
For Ness, a master bank robber proves a worthy opponent. But robbing banks is not a federal offense, so Ness must get him on another charge.
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20 "The Unhired Assassin: Part 1" Howard W. Koch William Spier 25 February 1960
While a crazed derelict in Florida is obsessed with assassinating President Roosevelt, Capone's mob is planning to take over the Chicago World's Fair by killing the mayor.
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21 "The Unhired Assassin: Part 2" Howard W. Koch William Spier 3 March 1960
Although unsuccessful in their first attempt to assassinate Chicago's Mayor, Anton J. Cermak, the Capone mob under the command of Frank Nitti and several other of the imprisoned mobster's lieutenants, have not given up. This time they hire a professional, Fred "Caddy" Croner, an expert at using a long rifle with a scope who carries his weapon in a golf club bag. They put him on a retainer until Cermak goes out of town and sure enough, they learn that the Mayor will be traveling to Miami to attend a public event in honor of the President-elect, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who is visiting the area before returning to Washington for his inauguration a few weeks later. Eliot Ness and the Untouchables are soon onto their plan and travel to Miami to protect Cermak. Unbeknown to them however, a crazed man, Giuseppe "Joe" Zangara, has purchased a handgun with the intent to kill Roosevelt at the same public function.
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22 "The White Slavers" Walter Grauman Leonard Kantor 10 March 1960
The sadistic head of a prostitution ring tries to get a former madam to help him with his operation. Only she decides to work with Eliot Ness instead.
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23 "Three Thousand Suspects" John Peyser Robert C. Dennis 24 March 1960
Just as a prisoner is about to turn stool pigeon, he is shot by someone on the inside. So Ness transfers a con from another prison to find the killer.
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24 "The Doreen Maney Story" Robert Florey Jerome Ross 31 March 1960
A woman and her boyfriend, dubbed "The Lovebirds" by the press, rob an armored truck. When she is caught, Ness uses her as bait to catch her partner.
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25 "Portrait of a Thief" Walter Grauman Herbert Abbott Spiro 7 April 1960
The president of a firm that distributes alcohol is connected to the mob and has been swindling his company for years. But then the mob turns on him.
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26 "The Underworld Bank" Stuart Rosenberg Aben Kandel 14 April 1960
The crime lords have now become money lenders. So when they cut one of their men out of his share of a heist, he comes after them... and so does Eliot Ness.
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27 "Head of Fire: Feet of Clay" Walter Grauman Ben Maddow 21 April 1960
Special agent Ness is worried about his childhood pal - a big, successful boxing promoter who's mixed up with a gangster Ness can never get convicted.
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28 "The Frank Nitti Story" Howard W. Koch Lee Blair,
 Harry Essex 28 April 1960
Al Capone's main enforcer, Frank Nitti, has gone into the movie business. He threatens theater owners into paying him protection money... or else! Untouchables agent Cam Allison (Anthony George) is killed in this episode, using his body to shield Ness from a would-be assassin.
Season 2: 1960–61[edit]

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1 "The Rusty Heller Story" Walter Grauman Leonard Kantor 13 October 1960
Rusty Heller is a nightclub performer who has her eyes set on a better life for herself which, in her case, means lots more money. She sets her eyes on mobster Charles 'Pop' Felcher who has his own ambitions: with the recent arrest of Al Capone on tax evasion charges, he sees himself taking over as the top mobster in Chicago. When Felcher shows little interest in her, she settles for his lawyer, Archie Grayson. Felcher eventually comes around but Rusty starts to play a dangerous game when she decides to make money off Felcher and the Capone mob by selling both of them the same information. Paul Picerni joins the cast as new Untouchables Agent Lee Hobson, replacing Martin Flaherty (Jerry Paris) as Ness' second-in-command.
Note: In 1997 TV Guide ranked this episode number 99 on its "100 Greatest Episodes of All Time" list.[2]
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2 "Jack 'Legs' Diamond" John Peyser Harry Essex,
 Charles O'Neal 20 October 1960
Working in the New York area, Eliot Ness and his men are trying to trace an incoming shipment of narcotics. Some years before, mobster and nightclub owner Jack "Legs" Diamond spent time in Europe and he made a deal with a Greek crime family to buy $5 million worth of narcotics. Diamond is flamboyant and loves publicity but his partners, Lucky Luciano and Dutch Schultz, want him to lie low for a while and they send him off to his cabin in the Catskills. When Diamond learns that they have gone ahead with the drug deal without informing him, he assumes they're trying to cut him out of the deal and goes after the drugs himself.
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3 "Nicky" Walter Grauman Harry Essex,
 Joseph Petracca 3 November 1960
When a small-time hoodlum is apparently killed by Eliot Ness during a raid, the man's teenage son, Nicky Bousso, tries to kill him. Ness realizes that Nicky is no hood and tries to be nice, but the kid is persistent. When ballistics confirm that the man was killed before the raid took place, Nicky thinks Ness is just making it up. Nicky gets a job cleaning cars at his father's former place of work, a taxi company owned by Gus Marco. Unbeknown to Nicky, Marco is a major hoodlum and his father was in fact a hood. He is soon faced with the choice of following in his father's footsteps or helping out Ness and the Feds.
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4 "The Waxey Gordon Story" John Peyser Joseph Petracca 10 November 1960
Waxey Gordon is known as the beer baron of New York and he decides that the time has come to expand his territory. He sets his sights on the New Jersey side of the river and successfully eliminates his three competitors there, including mobster Bugs Donovan. Ness and his men are trying to bring Waxey down and are sure they have located his warehouse but every time they raid the place, the building is completely empty. When they do finally figure out how he is moving his beer, they plan a little surprise for him with the help of the Elizabeth, New Jersey Fire Department.
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5 "The Mark of Cain" Walter Grauman David Zelag Goodman 17 November 1960
Eliot Ness and his team have been successful in shutting most of the drug trafficking in Chicago. One exception is "Little" Charlie Sebastino's operation. He has accumulated quite a stash over the years and doesn't need to import new supplies to keep his lucrative operation going. A drug overdose victim puts Ness onto Sebastino's distribution chain but he is puzzled when the gangster stops selling the stuff. Unbeknown to Ness, the Commission, chaired by Joe Genna, has ordered Sebastino to stop selling drugs. Needless to say, "Little" Charlie hatches his own plan to eliminate Genna and come out on top.
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6 "A Seat on the Fence" Walter Grauman William Templeton 24 November 1960
Narcotics smuggler Dino Patrone returns to the United States after visiting the old country for several months. He brings his younger sister Carla with him as she plans on studying in the U.S. Little does Dino know that his boss Victor Bardo has ordered his best friend Willie Asher to kill him. Traveling on the train to Chicago, Dino meets an acquaintance, print and radio journalist Loren Hall. Dino soon meets his end and it falls to Hall, who reluctantly agrees to work with Eliot Ness, to help Carla Patrone after she is kidnapped by the mobsters.
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7 "The Purple Gang" Walter Grauman John Mantley 1 December 1960
The Purple Gang, led by Eddie Fletcher, specialize in small-time kidnapping focusing on minor mobster that can fetch them a few thousand dollars in a short time. They may have bitten off than they can chew when they grab Jan Tornek. He is ostensibly an antique shop owner in business with his brother-in-law Eric Vajda. In fact, he's a messenger for the Capone mob, regularly collecting shipments of narcotics. Ness had been observing Tornek for some time and when he misses picking up a drug delivery, he's soon on to Mrs. Tornek who has already received the ransom demand. She works with Ness but Fletcher is soon on to them and they nab her brother, Eric Vajda. The case gets complicated when Capone's top enforcer, Frank Nitti, starts to negotiate for Vajda's release.
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8 "Kiss of Death Girl" John Peyser Harry Kronman 8 December 1960
Having had three boyfriends killed in the last 18 months, Francie West has earned her nickname, the kiss of death girl. She is a blackjack dealer in Phil Corbin's speakeasy and has been dating a minor mobster in Lou Scalese organization named Whitey Barrows. Corbin has plans to move into the big time and with Whitey's help, hijacks four truckloads of liquor belonging to Scalese. Corbin kills Whitey when the job is done and Eliot Ness tries to get Francie to help him out on the case. She's not too keen, initially refusing to accept that her latest boyfriend is dead. When she realizes that Corbin was involved and that her own life is in danger, she reconsiders.
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9 "The Larry Fay Story" Walter Grauman Harry Essex 15 December 1960
When mobster Larry Fay gets control of the dairy industry, the price goes up and the city is in an uproar. Milk normally sells for 10 cents a quart but has risen to 13 cents with 2 cents going directly into 's Fay's pocket. A commission of inquiry is set up to investigate the matter but Fay only cares about his profit and to the chagrin of at least one of his partners, pushes the price of milk ever higher. Fay owns a nightclub with partner Sally Kansas who isn't aware of Fay's illegal activities. Her much adored younger brother Tommy does and when Fay kills him, Eliot Ness sees an opening to enlist Sally's help in bringing Fay down.
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10 "The Otto Frick Story" John Peyser Leonard Kantor 22 December 1960
Otto Frick is a drug dealer with a traveling group of distributors. Ness and his men trace his supply chain to a book shop whose owner regularly visits the German Consulate in New York. Ness soon realizes that the Nazis are supplying Frick and that one of its agents, Walter Messlinger, is the point of contact. What Ness doesn't yet realize is that Messlinger wants Frick's experience as a hood to start using Nazi strong-arm tactics against local citizens. He also enlists Frick's right-hand man, Hans Eberhardt, to set up a protection racket against Jewish shopkeepers. When Ness intercepts one of the German drug shipments, Frick starts putting pressure on his German contact and it all comes to a head on the night of big German-American Bund rally at Madison Square Gardens.
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11 "The Tommy Karpeles Story" Stuart Rosenberg George Bellak 29 December 1960
Following the Hillsdale Express train robbery in which a million dollars was stolen and a mail clerk was killed, "Tough" Tommy Karpeles is convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Eliot Ness has been tasked by the Post Office to recover the missing million and he begins to think that Karpeles may be innocent. Information from a dying hood puts him on the trail of Karpeles' former associate Arnie 'The Wolf' Mendoza, now a supposedly reformed cinema owner living under the name of Albert Maris. When Mendoza kidnaps Karpeles' daughter Sally to keep her from talking, Tommy decides to help Ness and rescue his daughter.
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12 "The Big Train: Part 1" John Peyser William Spier 5 January 1961
When Al Capone is convicted of tax evasion, he's sentenced to 11 years and sent to the federal penitentiary in Atlanta. Capone's farewell is something normally reserved for more honest citizens leading Eliot Ness to go to Washington and propose the construction of Alcatraz prison. In Atlanta, Capone has a pretty good thing going, including guards who make life pretty easy for him in exchange for cash. When it becomes apparent that he too will be transferred to the new prison, Capone uses a cell mate's knowledge of the railroad route to plan his escape. In Chicago meanwhile, Ness becomes aware that the Capone empire is converting assets into cash and he and his team set out to find out why.
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13 "The Big Train: Part 2" John Peyser William Spier 12 January 1961
Having managed to secretly inform his men of the departure date of the train carrying him to Alcatraz, Al Capone continues to work om his escape. The plan is to free Capone when the train stops for 5 minutes in the northern California community of Cloverville. Capone's men arrive the day before the snatch and basically take over the town at gunpoint. Ness and his men are soon on to them however and manage to enter the town. Needless to say, Capone ends up in Alcatraz.
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14 "The Masterpiece" Walter Grauman David Zelag Goodman 19 January 1961
When Al Capone is imprisoned for tax evasion, he leaves his operation in the hands of two of his lieutenants: Mayer Wartel is responsible for the speakeasies and Carl Positan is left in charge of the breweries. Wartel however soon ensures that he is left as the only one in charge and is soon dubbed Capone's heir apparent. He's a severe hypochondriac and a chronic worrier so when he takes a dislike to the newspaper articles about him, he personally gets rid of the editor. Wartel had his gun made from scratch and of unique lightweight materials which results in Ness being able to track down the gunsmith and keep him under surveillance. When worrier Wartel gets wind of Ness' interest, he hires contract killer Harry Strauss to get rid of him. The fact that his target is under constant watch only adds to thrill of the kill.
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15 "The Organization" Walter Grauman Harry Kronman 26 January 1961
With the imprisonment of Al Capone for tax evasion, Frank Nitti has taken over the operation of the organization but that isn't stopping others from trying to muscle their way in. Arnie Seeger in particular thinks he has the opportunity to create a national crime syndicate and partners with St. Louis mobster Joe Kulak to make it happen. They plan on inviting key mobsters from across the country to a conference in Chicago. Into this mix comes a recently released small-time criminal, Maxie Schram. His wife Roxie now lives with Seeger and Maxie tries to hit her up for money. Down and out, he has no choice but to turn to Eliot Ness as an informant after his wife refuses to help him. It is Maxie that puts Ness and his men on Seeger's trail. When Kulak kills a policeman who had wiretapped the site of the syndicate conference, theirs is now a murder investigation as well.
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16 "The Jamaica Ginger Story" John Peyser Joseph Petracca 2 February 1961
Kansas City boss Torrez runs a lucrative trade in deadly, wood-alcohol tainted "Jamaica Ginger." When rivals try to move in on his operation, Torrez hires hit-men, but complications arise when one of the killers falls in love.
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17 "Augie 'The Banker' Ciamino" Stuart Rosenberg Adrian Spies 9 February 1961
Augie "The Banker" Ciamino is a bootlegger who seems to have developed an almost foolproof way of manufacturing his liquor. He has equipped over a hundred immigrant homes with small stills to actually make the stuff and a unique way of collecting the product. Not everyone in the immigrant community is participating in the illegal liquor-making operation and Eliot Ness visits a night class where adults learn English. His visit is followed by Ciamino's thugs who give the teacher a beating in front of his students. When shopkeeper Renzo Raineri intervenes, he learns that his son, a bookkeeper, is part of Ciamino's organization. Once Ness at his men learn how Ciamino collects the liquor, they try to catch him with goods but through intimidation and murder, the mobster proves to be elusive.
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18 "The Underground Court" Don Medford Leonard Kantor 16 February 1961
Mobster Valentine Ferrar thinks he has the perfect way to steal $500,000 of the syndicate's money. When a passenger liner returning from Cuba catches fire off the New Jersey coast, he fakes his death and sends his underling to the Underground Court, the mob's court of law, to tell them he drowned. They are soon on his trail however so when he meets up with a kooky widow, Hannah Wagnall, they set off on what she calls a second honeymoon. What he doesn't realize is that Wagnall has her own plans and that she's gone on these second honeymoons before. Ness and his men, with the help of State Police, track Valentine and Wagnall across several States as they too try to not only get the money but hopefully find out where the Underground Court meets.
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19 "The Nick Moses Story" Herman Hoffman Tim Darlo,
 John Mantley,
 T.L.P. Swicegood 23 February 1961
When gangster Nick Moses and another Chicago mobster threaten to go to war after Moses poaches customers in the other's territory, Frank Nitti — now the top mobster in Chicago after the recent incarceration of Al Capone for tax evasion — tells them to settle things amicably, or else. Moses pretends to make amends but actually arranges a hit on his rival, one that also leads to a young newspaper boy being shot. When Nitti tells him he's a dead man, Moses tries to make one last deal - in return for sparing his life, he will make sure Eliot Ness is killed. Nitti accepts the proposition and gives him six days to get the job done.
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20 "The Antidote" Walter Grauman David Zelag Goodman 9 March 1961
For years the Federal government has been trying to find a way to chemically de-nature industrial alcohol, but the mob has always found a way to re-nature the substance. In Chicago, the chief supplier of alcohol to the mob is Wally Baltzer who employs a crew of chemists to ensure a smooth flow of the product. The latest government formula is proving hard to crack and one of Baltzer's chemists, the physically disabled Russell Shield, sees an opportunity to make a name and a small fortune for himself. When his colleague develops the right chemical formula, Shield decides to kill him and blackmail Baltzer and Frank Nitti.
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21 "The Lily Dallas Story" Don Medford Harry Essex,
 Leonard Kantor 16 March 1961
Lily Dallas is a highly intelligent ex-con who has a history of committing bank robberies. This time she and her husband George 'Blackie' Dallas, who is known for his deft use of a Tommy gun, kidnap a well known and very rich businessman Thomas B. Randall and demand $300,000 ransom. Mrs. Randall follows their instructions and doesn't contact the police until after she has paid the ransom so Ness puts out a rumor that all of the bills have been marked. Blackie, however, is beginning to chafe under Lily's orders, all the more so as she is having an affair with a member of her crew, Marty Stoke. With the ransom money now unmovable, they go back to robbing banks.
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22 "Murder Under Glass" Walter Grauman Harry Kronman 23 March 1961
With the election of Franklin Roosevelt and the end in sight for prohibition, Frank Nitti and the Chicago mob have been shifting from alcohol to narcotics as their primary source of income. When their supply dries up, Nitti travels to New Orleans to meet with their supplier, Emile Bouchard, whose original shipment of drugs was hijacked but is expecting another any day. Nitti warns him that there better not be any foul-ups with this shipment but it soon becomes clear that Bouchard has plans of his own and is out to get a percentage of the mob's total income. Eliot Ness and his men are in New Orleans trying to break up the drug pipeline.
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23 "Testimony of Evil" Paul Wendkos Joseph Petracca 30 March 1961
Eliot Ness and the Untouchables are out to convict political boss Brian O'Malley and have two witnesses who will testify that he ordered a murder. O'Malley is an old-time politico who never seeks office himself but controls almost every party official that does. Ness' witnesses are living in a hotel under constant police protection but that doesn't stop O'Malley who manages to use a corrupt cop to kill one of them, George Davas. Ness' only remaining option is to find Davas' girlfriend, Julie Duvall, who he learns was also a witness to O'Malley orders. Time is of the essence for the Feds as mobsters for O'Malley are also on hot on her trail.
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24 "Ring of Terror" Walter Grauman John Mantley 13 April 1961
When boxer Joey McGrath dies in the ring, the medical examiner reports no special circumstances and the Press put it down to a tragic accident. A lab technician in the ME's office informs Eliot Ness that the medical report was fixed and McGrath had a high level of morphine in his blood, suggesting he had been drugged before the bout. McGrath's manager Barney Jarreau is a straight arrow who wasn't involved in the fix but with the McGrath incident about to be reviewed, numbers racketeer Rudy Krasna decides to force Jarreau's hand to fix an upcoming championship fight. Ness pressures Jarreau to help them out but he is reluctant to do so in order to protect his wife.
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25 "Mr. Moon" Paul Wendkos John Mantley,
 Charles O'Neal 20 April 1961
Melanthos Moon is a San Francisco art and antique dealer who manages to hijack a large supply of the special paper used to print U.S. Currency. He then arranges to spring from Leavenworth prison master counterfeiter Hans Dreiser to engrave the plates to produce the money. Eliot Ness and the Untouchables are soon on to him having followed Moon's henchman Benny Joplin back to his Oakland, California home. With the phony money available, Moon then approaches Chicago mobster Frank Nitti with an offer of $100 million split 50/50 with Nitti distributing the cash. Ness and his men are out to get one of the nearly perfect bills to get the serial number and stop the distribution of the cash before it starts.
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26 "Death for Sale" Stuart Rosenberg David Zelag Goodman 27 April 1961
Johnny Lubin has been on the make since he was a young kid. He quit school after grade 3 and by the age of 13 was paying off his truant officer $75 a week to leave him alone. Now 20, he own a string of speakeasies on the waterfront, including opium dens. He soon hooks up with George Dodd a toy manufacturer whose real name is Phil Melnick and is a supposedly reformed mobster. He has $2 million worth of opium to distribute and Lubin thinks he has just the way to get it into the hands of distributors. Lubin's arrogance however pushes him into a deadly game of cat and mouse with Eliot Ness and his men.
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27 "Stranglehold" Paul Wendkos Harry Kronman 4 May 1961
Eliot Ness sets out to bring down Frank Makouris, who controls New York's Fulton Fish Market by intimidation and murder and who is responsible for the price of fish going up nearly 50%. Frank's boss, gangster Joe Kulak, tells Frank to lie low until Ness leaves, but Frank ramps up his terrorizing of the market, until Kulak is forced to throw a low-ranking hood to the feds as a sacrificial lamb in order to take the heat off himself. Unfortunately, it doesn't work out as planned.
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28 "The Nero Rankin Story" Stuart Rosenberg Leonard Kantor 11 May 1961
Although Eliot Ness and the Untouchables managed to destroy the Underground Court, they have yet to make a dent against the Syndicate, which has re-grouped and continues to operate. They elect Nero Rankin to chair the national board of the syndicate, but the choice wasn't unanimous. He's also in poor health and that leads Sylvia Orkins, who loves Rankin and is convinced he will die or be killed, to approach Eliot Ness to do something, anything, to get him out of his new job. Rankin knows he has only about a year to live and that he's an unpopular chairman so he offers Ness a deal: lay off the Syndicate for the year and when he's dead, he'll provide Ness with the Syndicate's books. When Ness turns him down, Rankin decides that there's only one option: fight back, which he does with vicious drive-by shooting attacks against the public by his gang.
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29 "The Seventh Vote" Stuart Rosenberg Richard Collins 18 May 1961
After Al Capone is imprisoned for tax evasion, he leaves his Chicago operation in the hands of a governing council. There are two factions however, one headed by Frank Nitti and the other by Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik, and they can't agree on anything. To resolve the deadlock, Capone asks his mentor, known only as Kafka, to return to the U.S.A. and take over the management of his organization. Kafka was deported 11 years previously and now lives in the Orient and Nitti and Guzik hire Alexander Stavro to ensure that Kafka entry is uneventful. Eliot Ness and the Untouchables work with the RCMP to ensure Kafka is prevented from crossing into the U.S.A.
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30 "The King of Champagne" Walter Grauman David Zelag Goodman 25 May 1961
After Federal Agents destroy a large shipment of champagne there a void in the market. Bottle manufacturer Edmund Wald decides that perhaps the time has come to start filling the bottles he sells. He teams with a bootleg liquor distributor, Michel Viton, who has the contacts to sell the stuff to. He also gets his cheapskate uncle Barney Loomis, a legitimate restaurant owner, involved by getting him to lend him the up-front money he needs to the illicit liquor operation underway. Wald is taking all the risk however with both Viton and Loomis making sure their own interests are protected. Wald has his own plans however.
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31 "The Nick Acropolis Story" Don Medford Curtis Kenyon,
 John Mantley 1 June 1961
Nick Acropolis has created a vast network of bookies and is the king of the numbers racket in the greater Chicago area. His problems start when he discovers that Louis Manzak, his wife's brother and the manager of one his betting parlors, has skimmed $200,000 of the proceeds. Were it not for the family relationship, Nick would have had him killed but rather he gives Louis 48 hours to come with $50,000 as a down payment on what he owes. His sister lends him half of that amount but his attempt to borrow the rest from someone else leads to disaster. The dispute also brings Acropolis into a dispute with Frank Nitti while Nick's enforcer, Frankie Fershman, decides the time has come for him to move up in the organization.
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32 "90-Proof Dame" Walter Grauman Harry Kronman 8 June 1961
Nate Kester is a burlesque theatre operator who decides to branch out into the lucrative brandy business. He is producing his own brandy, of very poor quality, and using a fancy French label to try to pass it off as de Bouverais cognac. He realizes that if his scheme is to work, he will have to ensure that the real stuff is unavailable for comparison to the rot gut he will be marketing. He manages to destroy the principal supplier of the real stuff but Etienne de Bouverais himself comes to Chicago to put a new wholesaler in place. When he kills off de Bouverais he finds he has a formidable foe in the form of Madame de Bouverais, the former Marcie McKuen, at one time a dancer in his theatre. Eliot Ness tries to convince her to cooperate with the Feds to bring Kester down but she has her own plans to get even her former employer.
Season 3: 1961–62[edit]

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1 "The Troubleshooter" Stuart Rosenberg Louis Pelletier 12 October 1961
A new 5 and 10 cent game using punch boards has become very popular and lucrative for the syndicate that controls it. With Eliot Ness and the Untouchables targeting them, receipts are down so they decide to accept New York hood Nate Selko's plan to deal with Ness. Selko's offer of a bribe is rejected by Ness out of hand so he goes to plan B: set Ness up to shoot a man who is apparently unarmed. Ness knows he was fired at first but when no gun is found anywhere at the scene, it becomes front page news and he's forced to defend himself both publicly and to the DA.
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2 "Power Play" Paul Wendkos Harry Kronman 19 October 1961
With a public outcry over the level of gang violence in Chicago, the authorities appoint retired lawyer Willard Thornton to the new post of Crime Commissioner. What no one realizes is that he has formed a new syndicate bent on importing and distributing narcotics. When the new cartel's enforcer, Steve "Country Boy" Parrish, is arrested by Eliot Ness he is soon out on bail thanks to bail bondsman Barney Lubin, a Thornton associate. Parrish knows that Thornton's style is to eliminate any possible risk to his reputation so he is soon on the lam, living in the back room of a country garage run by Emmy Sarver. She has her own ideas, primarily focused on keeping Parrish around. As both Ness and Thornton close in, Country Boy Parrish must face the wrath of a woman scorned.
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3 "Tunnel of Horrors" Stuart Rosenberg John Mantley 26 October 1961
Acting on an anonymous tip, Eliot Ness and his men find themselves at a local carnival keeping an eye on an impending purchase of narcotics. The seller is Alexander Rader, a known drug dealer and the buyer is Arnold Justin on behalf of Frank Nitti. They are scheduled to meet in an electrical room accessible only through the tunnel of horrors tide. Justin is an ex-Chief of Detectives who was always honest when on the force but decided he was fed up putting his life on the line for minimal pay so he quit and now acts as a buyer for the mob. Unfortunately, he also realizes that the park is under police surveillance and refuses to go through with the buy. When the drugs disappear, Frank Nitti makes it quite clear that he expects Justin to deliver the goods, or else.
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4 "The Genna Brothers" Paul Wendkos Harry Kronman 2 November 1961
Within a few years of their arrival in the USA, the six Genna brothers have firmly establish themselves in Chicago's criminal community. Established in Chicago's Little Italy, they provide the Capone empire with illicit liquor that they have produced through a network of home distilleries that may only produce one gallon a day each. They also smuggle illegal aliens into the country and hold the threat of returning them to the old country if they don't do what they're told. Eliot Ness and his men have been trying to break up the Gennas network, but it has proved difficult to do as they can only find a few bottles at a time. With the help of a respected member of the local community, Carlo Giovanni, they try to get more information about the illegal operations. When the youngest Genna brother takes an interest in Giovanni's daughter, Ness moves in leading to a showdown with the family members.
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5 "The Matt Bass Scheme" Stuart Rosenberg David Zelag Goodman 9 November 1961
Matt Bass is an ex-con and a former member of Al Capone's criminal empire. In prison, a fellow con, engineer Jason Fiddler develops what he thinks is the perfect way to deliver illicit liquor to central Chicago. Once out of jail, Bass approaches his old friend Frank Nitti to sell the idea. Nitti has been hit hard lately by Eliot Ness and the Untouchables who have pretty well shut down most of his distilleries and the speakeasies are starting to close their doors. Nitti tries to solve the delivery problem himself but in the end, agrees to Bass and Fiddler's scheme. Ness is soon on to them, however.
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6 "Loophole" Paul Wendkos Harry Kronman 16 November 1961
Morton Halas is an aggressive and very successful defense attorney who will stop at nothing to get his clients off. Having successfully defended Big Mike Probich he finds himself working for Larry Coombs, another small-time mobster who has ambition to rise to the top. Coombs and his top enforcer Whitey Metz decide to knock off Probich and take over his network. They succeed but things don't go as smoothly as planned and Eliot Ness soon has an eye witness who can identify both of them. Halas has a flair for the dramatic and just as the verdict in the case is about to be announced, he arranges for someone to stand up in open court and announce, with murder weapon in hand, that he is the killer. Ness and the District Attorney know that the fix is in and find they have to rely on their own trickery if Halas, Coombs and Metz are to face justice.
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7 "Jigsaw" Paul Wendkos George Eckstein 23 November 1961
Frank Nitti has a major problem: someone in his organization is leaking information to Eliot Ness and the Untouchables. They've closed down several of his distilleries and several members of the organization are starting to question Nitti's leadership. He decides to seek out someone who used to work for Al Capone, Walter Trager known as the Leaker, who has a knack for finding and closing down leaks in the organization. Trager narrows the possible list of leakers down to two people: Nitti driver Marty Wilger and his own brother-in-law Harry Mailer, a local politician on Nitti's payroll. Nitti orders them both killed but doesn't realize that Trager is out to take over the entire organization. Trager's sister, now a widow, has her own plans as well.
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8 "Man Killer" Stuart Rosenberg Sy Salkowitz 7 December 1961
Eliot Ness and his men are having success shutting down the narcotics trade in Chicago thanks to a series of anonymous telephone tips. Ness manages to trace the call to a phone booth and identify the caller as Nick Dulov, owner of the Windy City cab company. Dulov has stolen Nitti's 15 kilo shipment of heroin and then gives it back to him — with a proposition that they go into the narcotics distribution business together. Dulov's wife, Georgiana Drake, is fed up with their relationship however and having killed her husband tries to convince Nitti to do business with her. Her proposal is to use her fleet of taxis — and those in several other cities as well — as mobile narcotics stores and having the junkies come to them, rather than the other way around, and offer a free fix to anyone who brings in a new customer.
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9 "City Without a Name" Paul Wendkos John Mantley 14 December 1961
After a Federal Agent is gunned down, Eliot Ness and his Untouchables arrive in town to try to solve their colleague's murder. The perpetrator is believed to be Lou Mungo and his precipitous action is exactly the opening Frank Nitti was waiting for so he could move in himself. Nitti hires the smooth talking gambler Sebastian to convince Mungo to hand over his contacts at City Hall and he soon has the information he needs to blackmail Mungo. With Nitti putting pressure on Sebastian to get the deal done, Mungo decides to play hardball. Ness meanwhile is slowly building the case against Mungo for the murder.
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10 "Hammerlock" Stuart Rosenberg Mel Goldberg 21 December 1961
Always looking to expand their area of control, the mob is now out to get control of the bakery industry. Eliot Ness is in New York to testify at a trial and the local US Attorney asks him to stay on to help with the problem. Under the control of the Syndicate, Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter tasks Bryan "Bull" Hanlon to gain control of the industry by establishing a truckers association to get control of deliveries. Hanlon's inclination is to start with small bakers and slowly move up but under orders, he goes after the largest baker in the industry, Adam Stone. Highly respected in the industry, Stone is an old school businessman who isn't afraid to get his hands dirty or get down on his hands and knees to fix a piece of equipment. He wants nothing to do with the mob and isn't afraid to stand up to them. Until they threaten to harm his daughter Marcia, a dancer on Coney Island, who he has not seen for many years.
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11 "The Canada Run" Bernard McEveety Harry Kronman,
 Barry Trivers 4 January 1962
Father Francis Gregory thinks nothing short of a miracle has happened when Joe Palakopolous, known as Mr. Pal to his friends, walks into his church. Pal is very generous and provides several hundred dollars to start up and maintain a soup kitchen. He also buys the church a new organ and puts up a brightly lit cross atop the church steeple. What Father Gregory doesn't know is that Pal is a gangster who smuggles in whiskey from Canada and is using this small community as a base of operations. Ness and his men are soon onto Pal when a top brand of Canadian whiskey, Canada Gold, suddenly starts to appear on the market. They soon focus on Pal and realize that his generosity to the Church, especially the brightly lit cross, all have a specific purpose.
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12 "Fall Guy" Bernard L. Kowalski David P. Harmon 11 January 1962
After mob hit man Frankie Gruder kills a warehouseman — and is almost nabbed by Eliot Ness and his men in the process — he turns to his old friend Julius Vernon to get him out of it. Vernon conspires with Willie Willinsky, who knows practically every crook in town, to find someone to plead guilty to the murder. The fraud works so well that Vernon suggests the three of them form an employment agency of sorts. Anyone who wants a crime committed need only tell them what they want done. Vernon will devise the scheme, Willinsky will find the men to make it happen and Gruder will provide the muscle. They decide that they also need a figurehead to take the rap if they get caught so they focus on recruiting Big Joe Holvak who has just been released from prison after serving his 10 year sentence. Joe doesn't realize what he's gotten himself into nor that time has also passed him by.
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13 "The Gang War" Paul Wendkos John Mantley 18 January 1962
When gangsters invade and shoot up a speakeasy on the outskirts of Chicago, Ness thinks Frank Nitti may be trying to get rid of some of his competition. When one of Nitti's joints is bombed soon after, the authorities are worried that a massive gang war may erupt. The problem for Nitti is that the out-of-town clubs are getting quality booze smuggled in from Canada and its drawing away his well-heeled customers. He learns from one of the roadhouse managers that Parnise Surigao has been importing the liquor but he won't reveal where or how he's doing it. When Nitti takes one of the smugglers hostage and learns where Surigao is storing his liquor, he decides to get his hands on it.
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14 "Silent Partner" Abner Biberman Harry Kronman 1 February 1962
When Wallace Laughton is killed by Federal Agents, a mysterious man known only as The Partner orders that the agent responsible be eliminated. The Partner is a mysterious man whose identity is known to only a very few. He is reputedly the top man in organized crime. Lee Hobson is the agent responsible for shooting Laughton but when Eliot Ness gets wind of the contract, he claims responsibility and makes a point of telling the Press. Lee is taken aback with Eliot's moves and resents what he sees as his boss taking all the glory. When the contract killers kidnap Lee as bait to lure Ness into a trap, he learns exactly what his good friend is doing.
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15 "The Whitey Steele Story" Abner Biberman George Eckstein 8 February 1962
In New York on a case, Eliot Ness learns that mobster Joe Kulak is out to get control of the racing wire. The wire provides horse racing results from tracks across the country to betting parlors and bookies. The mob is out to get control of Michael Barrigan's wire service and they've killed Barrigan's two partners to put pressure on him. With information that Gregory Pindar will be running the mob's wire service, Ness travels to San Francisco undercover posing as hoodlum Whitey Steele to see if he can infiltrate the new operation. He gets a job with Pindar and learns that Pindar may also be importing heroin. Problems arise when a New York mobster, who knows Ness, shows up in town.
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16 "The Death Tree" Vincent McEveety Harry Kronman 15 February 1962
In the Gypsy quarter of Chicago, drunkenness is taking its toll in fights and killings. The local community elders, known as the Senate, want to bring it to an end but come into conflict with Janos Colescou, owner of much of the illicit liquor distribution in the area. He kills the head of the Senate, Victor Bartok and when the opposition continues, kills his brother Fedor. Throughout, Colescou has revived an old custom of posting his victims name on an old tree in the neighborhood. For Ness and his men, the goal is to try to bring Colescou out into the open and for that they get help from Victor Bartok's daughter Magda. She tells him that Colescou has personal reasons for wanting to get rid of the Bartoks.
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17 "Takeover" Bernard L. Kowalski Theodore Apstein,
 Sy Salkowitz 1 March 1962
The demand for real beer goes unabated and Charlie Zenko tries to consolidate his control of the North side of Chicago. He arranges for brew master Franz Koenig to get a visit from Eliot Ness. At his trial however, Koenig is saved when a stranger, Leo Mencken, provides him with the alibi he needs. Soon Koenig and Mencken are partners and are using Mencken's unique way of temporarily masking the re-alcoholization of the beer they produce. Charlie Zenko is none too pleased that his competition is back on the street but has the good sense to check with New York mobster Joe Kulak who confirms that Mencken is working for him. When they finally meet, Charlie Zenko is shocked to see just who Leo Mencken really is.
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18 "The Stryker Brothers" Stuart Rosenberg Gilbert Ralston 8 March 1962
Soon after the three Stryker brothers rob a train, killing someone in the process, Eliot Ness and his untouchables are on their trail. They get a warrant and seize the Strykers books and papers hoping to find something incriminating. The dim-witted Benny Striker has kept a piece of correspondence from the train robbery and his brothers decide they need to somehow get rid of that evidence. Benny approaches an old friend Mr. Jaeger, a retired arsonist, to set the Federal building's evidence room on fire and destroy the documents. He succeeds, but Ness uses basic psychology to ferret out Jaeger and the Stryker brothers.
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19 "Element of Danger" Bernard L. Kowalski John Mantley 22 March 1962
Victor Rait has developed a new method for converting opium to heroin and he and his partner Arnold Stegler hope to make a handsome profit. When Rait kills a Chicago policeman, who was actually on loan and working for Eliot Ness, he realizes that they have to clear out of their current location. Just as they are leaving Ness and his men arrives and Rait pretends to be an innocent bystander and witness to the shooting. When Stegler decides to eliminate Rait, Ness decides to use that to get Victor to cooperate.
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20 "The Maggie Storm Story" Stuart Rosenberg George Eckstein 29 March 1962
When junkie Benny Rivas is stopped by Eliot Ness and his men, he tells them in his dying breath that the source of his heroin is the 808 Club. Ness knows the club's hostess, Maggie Storm, quite well. She's married to the frequently absent owner and denies any knowledge of drugs being sold on the premises. In fact, she has set up a very clever trading floor where mobsters bid for anything from drugs to counterfeit money. She has a bigger problem however when Louis "Lepke" Buchalter decides he wants to take over the club and sends his murderous henchman Vince Shirer to eliminate anyone that might stand in his way. Ness decides to recruit a soon to be paroled mobster to infiltrate the organization.
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21 "Man in the Middle" Bernard L. Kowalski Harry Kronman 5 April 1962
Slot machines have become all the rage and William '"orker" Davis is making a fortune on all of those nickels and dimes. He soon comes under pressure from mobster Joe Bomer who's prepared to let him stay in business provided he gives the players a 70% return on their bets thereby making sure they will always come back. Davis agrees but when Bomer finds out the machines have been doctored to pay out less, Davis is soon on the run. Turns out it's Davis' friend and Bomer employee Benjy Liemer who has been fiddling with the machines and also providing Ness with anonymous tips.
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22 "Downfall" Stuart Rosenberg Robert Libott 3 May 1962
Joseph December is a legitimate businessman and the scion of a wealthy family who own the Great Lakes Pacific railroad which, by all accounts, is on its last legs. With Eliot Ness receiving hot tips and managing to intercept liquor being smuggled in from Canada, Al Capone enforcer Pete "The Persuader" Kalmiski and his underling Allan Sitkin approach December to make a deal. In return for letting them use his railway, December get to keep 20% of the proceeds. The death of a railway track worker however puts Ness and the Untouchables onto the scheme. When a side deal on shares with Sitkin goes bad and he commits suicide, December gets hold of information that he hopes he can use against Kalmiski. December's right hand man, Henry Grunther, is appalled at what is happening to the company and seeks Ness' assistance.
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23 "The Case Against Eliot Ness" Bernard L. Kowalski George Eckstein 10 May 1962
Mitchell Grandin is a prominent citizen of Chicago. As a former councilman and organizer of many charitable events, he has gained a reputation that he tries to put to good use. He's also trying to get the concessions for a major international fair and exposition celebrating Chicago's centenary and has hired a hit man to get rid of his competitors. When Eliot Ness tells the organizing committee that Grandin may be dirty, he finds himself being sued for slander to the tune of $500,000. His only possible defense is to prove that his suspicions are correct.
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24 "The Ginnie Littlesmith Story" Stuart Rosenberg Leonard Kantor 17 May 1962
A vice ring known as the Group has been hiding their speakeasies and brothels by using free soup kitchens as a front. When white slaver Chez Goshen dies his niece, Ginnie Littlesmith, decides to take possession of the Group's books. She had worked for her uncle and feels it is her inheritance. Enforcer Vic Cassandros tries to seduce the spinsterish Ginnie to get his hands on those books. Eliot Ness wants to get his hands on them as well knowing it would be the end of that racket.
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25 "The Contract" Bernard L. Kowalski George Eckstein 31 May 1962
When the attempted assassination of small-time hood Smiley Barris, New York mobster Joe Kulak hires cold-blooded assassin Ray Quist to kill him. Ness tries to get Barris to cooperate but he refuses. When a second attempt on Barris goes wrong, Barris calls his Johnny Templar to help him out. Templar runs a gambling boat that goes out to sea beyond the three mile limit and beyond the long arm of the law. Templar hides his friend Barris on board so Joe Kulak turns the tables on both of them. He cancels Quist's contract and gives it to Templar - who knows that anyone who fails to deliver on a contract is executed. When Templar has second thoughts about killing his friend, he soon finds that Quist is after him.
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26 "Pressure" Vincent McEveety Harry Kronman 14 June 1962
With the end of Prohibition, gangsters have now focused on the drug trade. A New York-based syndicate known as the Big Six, long established in the illegal drug business, visit drug distributor Louis "The Bear" Madikoff in Chicago who has had his recent shipments to Lucky Luciano in New York picked off by Eliot Ness and his agents. Madikoff is convinced that fellow Chicago drug dealer Mike Pavanos is responsible for feeding Ness with information so he sets out to even the score. It turns out however that Madikoff's son Danny is dating Pavano's daughter Francie. Their fathers blind hatred of one another leads to tragedy.
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27 "Arsenal" Paul Wendkos John Mantley 28 June 1962
Frank Nitti and Bugs Moran are about to go to war, and to forestall that possibility, Elliot Ness and the Untouchables begin rounding up every machine gun owned by the gangsters' hitmen. To resupply himself, Nitti hires Polish gunsmith Jan Trobek to make a dozen Tommy guns. Unfortunately for Trobek and his wife, Nitti and Moran soon settle their differences, which means that the pair are now witnesses who could turn into liabilities for Nitti.
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28 "The Monkey Wrench" Bernard L. Kowalski George Eckstein,
 Sy Salkowitz 5 July 1962
The mobsters are fighting among themselves for greater control of the beer market and Frank Nitti thinks he has the perfect solution. He is smuggling German brew masters into the United States and as a result, is making a far superior product than his competitors. This doesn't sit well with the New York mob, particularly Joe Kulic who decides to do something about it. He hires enforcer Karl Hansa, a bit of a madman, to infiltrate Nitti's operation and shut it down. Eliot Ness and the Untouchables are soon on to the whole scheme thanks to information from an attractive woman, Mady Collins, who seems to have taken a liking to Ness.
Season 4: 1962–63[edit]

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1 "The Night They Shot Santa Claus" Alex March Mort Thaw 25 September 1962
It's Christmas Eve 1930 and Eliot Ness and his men are investigating the murder of a close friend of his, Hap Levinson. The man had been playing Santa Claus at a children's orphanage and had just left when he was gunned down by a passing car. Levinson was the front man in a nightclub-speakeasy and he and Ness had spent many hours together laughing and passing the time of day. As Ness looks into his old friend's background, he learns that he may have had a girlfriend named Renée that he kept in a downtown apartment. It's readily apparent that she's a junkie and what he learns about his friend isn't pretty. Soon, mobsters are being knocked off and it seems someone is getting rid of witnesses to a crime.
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2 "The Cooker in the Sky" Robert Butler John D.F. Black 2 October 1962
With their breweries being knocked off by the Feds, local mobsters bring in an outsider from New York, Joey Lassiter. Known as the best inside man in the business, he promises them a Ness-proof operation. Caught in the middle is Harry Gordon, the current inside man who now finds himself nothing more than an errand boy. Harry's wife Edna isn't too pleased and starts feeding information to Ness. She eventually convinces Harry to do the same and were it not for their tips, Ness would be completely in the dark. Soon, however, Ness and his men find the location of Lassiter's planned brewery on the 6th floor of an industrial building. Ness' plan is to let Lassiter finish the brewery before shutting it down but Agent Lee Hobson is concerned it will look like their on the take if they don't close it down immediately.
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3 "The Chess Game" Stuart Rosenberg David Zelag Goodman 9 October 1962
Having had major successes in eliminating the illegal trade in champagne, Eliot Ness and the Untouchables suddenly find that the expensive wine is finding its way onto the market again. During one raid, they find that a couple of the bottles are frozen solid and Ness speculates that they may have been shipped in a refrigerated car. They trace the illegal shipment to Ira Bauer, a blind fish and seafood wholesaler. For Bauer, his lack sight is anything but an impediment. He particularly likes to play chess as a way of keeping his mind sharp. He and Ness are soon involved in their own game as the Treasury officer tries to get the evidence he needs to shut down Bauer's operation.
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4 "The Economist" Paul Stanley Harold Gast 16 October 1962
With the price of illicit liquor bottoming out, Vincent Tunis suggests to his fellow syndicate members that they store their liquor rather than sell it, thereby creating an artificial shortage and pushing up the price. Eliot Ness and his men become aware of what's going on when the syndicate also starts to put small moonshiners out of business. When the only mobster who knows the location of the liquor is killed, Ness and his men try to find the only remaining truck driver from the job before the syndicate does.
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5 "The Pea" Paul Stanley Harry Kronman 23 October 1962
Herbie Catcher is a small-time nobody who really wants to improve his status in life. He tries to impress those around him, but without success. He's even tried to feed information to Eliot Ness hoping for praise, but he really has nothing to offer. He's a busboy at a posh restaurant run by Max Zenner and he's not very good at it. On the verge of being fired, he claims to have a recently killed employee's book naming names and other activities that have gone on at the restaurant., especially having to do with mobster Martin Rawlings. His demands aren't that great: he wants to be named the Captain of the waiters but eventually greed takes hold and he forces Rawlings to make him a partner. Throughout, Eliot Ness warns Catcher that he's playing a dangerous game and getting involved with hoods can only lead to jail or death.
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6 "Bird in the Hand" Walter Grauman Harry Kronman 30 October 1962
Gangster Arnie Kurtz is moving into Chicago's South Side and Eliot Ness very much wants to nab him, putting a 24 hour watch and tapping his phones. The operation is put in danger however when Kurtz inadvertently becomes part of a public health emergency. Against his better judgment -but at his wife's insistence - he agrees to let her brother Benno Fisk deliver $100,000 to a New York mobster. Unknown to anyone, Benno has contracted Parrot Fever from a recently acquired pet and collapses soon after his arrival. Federal health official frantically try to trace the source of the infectious disease. For Arnie Kurtz it may mean trouble as he and his wife have been caring for Benno's pets while he is away.
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7 "The Eddie O'Gara Story" Robert Butler Carey Wilber 13 November 1962
Bugs Moran, hiding out since Al Capone eliminated his gang in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, is visited by Eddie O'Gara, a man he thought had been killed by rival gangsters several years previously. Although he never cared for O'Gara in the first place, Moran is intrigued when Eddie lays out a plan to put Moran back in charge of the rackets again. Meanwhile, Elliot Ness is looking for Moran and O'Gara, figuring that both will want revenge on the gangsters who are responsible for their plight and that he can use that to destroy the Chicago syndicates permanently.
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8 "Elegy" Robert Butler Herman Groves 20 November 1962
When mobster Charley Radick learns that he has leukemia and only a short time to live, he decides the time has come to visit his daughter, Margaret, now a young woman. When Charley had gone to prison for a 10-year stretch, he had left her with the Wilsons but when he got out, he decided to concentrate on moving up in the rackets and left the girl with them. When he visits the Wilsons, however, he's told that Margaret left some three years before. When Eliot Ness learns that Radick is dying, he asks him to come clean and give him the organization's books. Radick makes a deal: if Ness can locate his daughter, he will give him the information he wants. Ness then turns to Lt. Agatha Stewart of the Missing Persons Bureau for help.
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9 "Come and Kill Me" Robert Gist Kitty Buhler 27 November 1962
After a mobster with valuable information is killed in broad daylight at the racetrack, Eliot Ness and his men try to identify the killer. No one will admit knowing him but by tracing his movements, they find he was a regular visitor to the home of Dexter Lloyd Bayless who lives in a well-to-do suburb of Chicago. Through surveillance, they note that he has regular visitors in the afternoon and Ness decides to break into the house to plant a listening device. Through that, they learn that Bayless is running a very special school out of his home: a school for assassins.
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10 "A Fist of Five" Ida Lupino Herman Groves 4 December 1962
Mike Brannon is a tough cop but his two blocks of Chicago are among the safest there are. He has a tendency to be rough with hoodlums and when he beats up one of Tony Lamberto's boys he finds himself on indefinite suspension. Fed up with his corrupt superiors, he decides the time has come for him to make some money so he enlists his four brothers in a plot to kidnap Lamberto and hold him for $150,000 ransom. Unbeknown to anyone, Lamberto had recently approached Eliot Ness with a proposition: he would be prepared to roll up his entire operation and retire if the District Attorney would ensure no jail time from his upcoming trial on tax evasion. Soon, both Lamberto's associates and Ness are looking for him with the Brannon brothers in the middle.
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11 "The Floyd Gibbons Story" Robert Butler George Eckstein,
 Mort R. Lewis 11 December 1962
When newspaper man Carlton Edwards is gunned down on the street, the police and his friends initially think it's a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Eliot Ness and his men soon determine that Edwards was the target of a mob hit. His old friend, Floyd Gibbons, now a globe-trotting reporter, happens to be passing through Chicago and decides he's going to find the culprit. Working with Ness, they soon uncover that the hit was related to a series of articles Edwards was planning on the takeover of the scrap metal business by the mob.
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12 "Doublecross" Paul Wendkos John Mantley 18 December 1962
Mobster Jake Kuzik is a major liquor supplier in Chicago and he doesn't hesitate to use strong arm tactics to keep his network of distributors and retailers in check. He's been having trouble getting supply lately and he comes under pressure — helped along by Eliot Ness and his men — to find liquor for sale or else. He forms an alliance with an arch-rival, Bugs Moran, to import half a million gallons of whiskey by train and they set up a clever deception to keep Federal agents off the scent.
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13 "Search for a Dead Man" Robert Butler Harold Gast,
 Herman Groves 1 January 1963
When a body is fished out of the river, Lt. Aggie Stewart of the Bureau of Missing Persons is put in charge of the case. After 10 days and having made little headway, the body is buried in a pauper's grave. As is her custom, she attends the funeral to see if anyone shows up. In this case, flowers are sent from a well-known mob-owned business. She manages to trace the woman who sent the flowers. Eliot Ness meanwhile is looking to stop the biggest shipment ever of illegal liquor worth well over $1 million. What they all soon realize is that the two cases are connected.
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14 "The Speculator" Allen Reisner Max Ehrlich 8 January 1963
Leo Stazak is a small time con artist on the periphery of the mob and he decides to con Frank Nitti in a stock scam. Stazak is a fast talker and an expert liar who quickly gains Nitti's confidence. Soon, the big man has entrusted half a million dollars to Stazak who has been printing fake stock certificates. Ness is also on to Stazak's printer and it doesn't take long for Nitti to realize what is going on.
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15 "Snowball" Alex March George Eckstein,
 Norman Katkov 15 January 1963
Jack Parker is an up-and-coming young hustler who wants to become part of Frank Nitti's organization. He thinks there's an untapped market on university and college campuses but Nitti thinks he's just a nickel and dimer and isn't interested. Parker has been making his own booze and selling it through Benny Angel, who hangs around the campus actually selling the stuff to the kids. Parker decides to get Nitti's interest by secretly arranging to sell wood alcohol to students and then convincing Nitti that he can make sure the stuff sold to students is clean. When Benny Angel is found dead, Ness has another reason to find the man behind the scheme.
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16 "Jake Dance" Robert Butler Gilbert Ralston 22 January 1963
When a large supply of hair tonic is stolen, Ness and the Untouchables are concerned that it may be used as a base for illegal — and deadly — liquor. Soon after, the stuff starts to appear flavored with ginger jake, a popular patent medicine. The result is a permanent neurological disorder that was first seen in a major outbreak in Kansas City. The first victim in Chicago is Mary Kay Spencer, a 17-year-old who drank the stuff while out on a date with her boyfriend. Working with public health officials, Ness tries to track down the source of the deadly hooch.
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17 "Blues for a Gone Goose" Sherman Marks Don Brinkley 29 January 1963
Ray "Goose" Gander runs a jazz club in Chicago and he's coming under pressure from mobster Lou Cagan to sell booze at the club. Gander is a former musician who is in the business for the love of the music and wants nothing to do with selling the mob's liquor, but he's being backed into a corner. His protégé, trumpeter Eddie Moon, urges him to pack it in and go on the road but when Gander refuses, Eddie also talks him out of signing up with Cagan. When Gander is shot, Eddie blames himself for the death of his friend and mentor and he works with Eliot Ness and the Untouchables to bring Cagan down. He forms a partnership with Cagan to re-open Gander's club and he also starts an affair with Cagan's wife but he soon falls under suspicion.
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18 "Globe of Death" Walter Grauman John Mantley 5 February 1963
Frank Nitti decides to import a large amount of heroin - $2 million worth. Eliot Ness is soon onto him and arrests the delivery man, Mr. Yang from Shanghai, but he no longer has the goods and they have no reason to detain him. Ness and one of his men travel to San Francisco to see if they can determine how the goods were smuggled into the country and determine that it entered on a passenger cruiser and was then shipped by air to Chicago enclosed in a large globe. Meanwhile, one of Nitti's fellow gangsters, Larry Bass, has his own plans for the drugs and assembles his own team to break into the bank vault where Nitti is temporarily storing the globe.
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19 "An Eye for an Eye" Robert Gist John D.F. Black 19 February 1963
A father's heartbreak at his son's death leads him to partner with Eliot Ness to bring in a major liquor distributor. Charles Tarasovich knows his son delivered liquor for Sol Girsch and Ness knows it as well, but without a witness who's actually done business with Girsch, there's no chance of getting a conviction. Charles offers to set a trap for Girsch and Ness agrees. Girsch meanwhile has seen his business grow to over 500 distributors and now wants a better deal from those who manufacture the illicit liquor. He also brings in some mobsters from Detroit to make sure he gets it.
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20 "Junk Man" Paul Wendkos Herman Groves 26 February 1963
Mobster Victor Salazar is out to steal a commercial shipment of morphine destined to a Chicago medical facility. Before he can do so however, it's snatched out from under him by one of his henchman, Steve Ballard. With Eliot Ness and his men have been keeping a close eye on Salazar, the drug kingpin desperately tries to find the junk. What he doesn't know is that another of his underlings, Barney Howe is actually Barney Retsick, a Federal narcotics Agent. Retsick and Ness work together to arrest all of the criminals before the narcotics, disguised as children's candy, hits the streets.
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21 "The Man in the Cooler" Ida Lupino John D.F. Black 5 March 1963
"Fat" Augie Strom is Eliot Ness's target at the moment. His meat packing plant is not only a front for his illegal booze business, but in those pre-airconditioned days, its cooler is the only place a person his size can find a comfortable temperature. Eliot Ness has made contact with Al Remp in prison and arranged for him to rejoin Augie's organization upon release and communicate with the Untouchables. His wife Marcie is ignorant of his purposes and opposes his "gang" activities, even asking Ness to return him to prison for his safety. When the money gets good, Al decides to throw in with the mob for real. Who will win out? A greedy gangster or a loving wife?
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22 "The Butcher's Boy" Allen Reisner Harry Kronman 12 March 1963
Phil Hedden operates a vicious extortion racket; as president of the Alliance of Master Butchers, he promises "protection" to the meat marketers of Chicago. His second in command is Davey McCain, a war buddy, who works with a rival, Gus Ducek, trying to muscle in on the operation. Ducek is given almost a third, but McCain is cut out. What can he do except have Ducek killed? The plot thickens when McCain and Hedden try to kill each other; Hedden winds up hanged on a meat hook; Mc Cain takes over. Eliot Ness sets out to thwart McCain's every move to possess Hedden's girl, his special table at Pierre's, his apartment... hoping to provoke him into an explosion which will result in his downfall. It does — literally.
111
23 "The Spoiler" Laslo Benedek Tony Barrett 26 March 1963
Johnny Mizo has been on the lam for several years working as a seaman on cargo ships. He left the country after stealing $200,000 from mobster Vince Majesky who has been waiting patiently for his return. On Mizo's arrival in the U.S., Majesky has his hoods waiting for him but they kill the wrong man so both Majesky and Eliot Ness are now on the lookout for him in Chicago. When he committed the original robbery, Mizo's brother was killed but that doesn't stop him from seeking his sister-in-law's help and recruiting his nephew Arnie as he attempts to recover the hidden loot.
112
24 "One Last Killing" Allen Reisner Harold Gast 2 April 1963
Eliot Ness knows that John "The Cropper" Cropsie killed Belle Alpine's husband and that she witnessed it but, for reasons of her own, she won't identify him. Cropsie is a small-time hood who wants to get into the big-time and gets a job loan-sharking for Julie Flack. One of his marks tells him that a local company has manufactured 50,000 gallons of industrial alcohol. He manages to steal the precious liquid and tries to sell it to Flack. Ness is onto him quickly and Cropsie has made a serious error in including Belle Alpine's brother-in-law Murray in his plans.
113
25 "The Giant Killer" Leonard Horn George Eckstein 9 April 1963
Ed "The Duke" Monte is sent to prison, and the reported informer is murdered on the orders of his son-in-law, Lou Sultan. Monte escapes from custody with the help of his bodyguard, Yanos Dalker, and vows to kill the real snitch. He does not allow Sultan or his daughter Barbara to know his whereabouts, suspecting they may be responsible. The old man was shot in the escape, so it becomes a race against time — who will win the ensuing gang war? Meanwhile Ness is not only trying to recapture Monte, but also identify the informer who gave info by Western Union; he discovers it was a woman. Could it be Monte's daughter?
114
26 "The Charlie Argos Story" Leonard Horn Harry Kronman,
 Robert Libott 16 April 1963
Prohibition has come to an end, and bootlegger Frank "The King" Argos has also come to the end of his life. Eliot Ness declines his request to become the executor of his estate, for obvious reasons. When he dies, his minions are appalled to learn about the provisions of The King's legacy. He's left his illegal empire (including $5 million in bonds) to his son Charlie, who was declared MIA at the very end of World War I. Charlie's bodyguard as a child and Argos' girlfriend recruit and train someone to pose as the long-lost son, but they find that he seems to know more about Charlie's childhood than they do.
115
27 "The Jazz Man" Vincent McEveety David Zelag Goodman 30 April 1963
When a police captain's son is arrested in a drug sweep, Eliot Ness decides to try to locate the source of the drugs. The pusher was someone known as Peepers but he dies before they can get much information from him. They do manage to trace him to Chicago nightclub owner Sal Rudin and believe the heroin originated in New Orleans. Ness travels to the Big Easy posing as a bass player and meets booking agent Russ Bogan, who is part of the distribution network. He also learns of their unique system of delivering the goods across the country.
116
28 "The Torpedo" Ida Lupino Ed Adamson,
 Carey Wilber 7 May 1963
Mobster Victor Kurtz makes peace with his main rival for illegal liquor distribution in Chicago's South Side, Monk Lyselle. All goes well for several months until Eliot Ness and his men begin to intervene. They begin to hijack Kurtz' trucks and he automatically assumes that Lyselle has broken their agreement. Over the several months there was peace, Kurtz' main gunman, Holly Kester, has lost his nerve and Ness focuses on him as a possible way to put both Kurtz and Lyselle out of business.
117
29 "Line of Fire" Robert Butler Tony Barrett,
 Irving J. McCarthy 14 May 1963
When one of Marty Pulaski's dance hall girls is shot by a sniper just outside his nightclub, he automatically assumes that his main rival, Vince Bogan, is responsible. Bogan controls most of the 10 cent dance halls in Chicago, but there has been peace between the two, mostly because of mobster Janos "Jake" Szabo. Marty loses his temper and kills Bogan which Szabo is willing to forgive, if Bogan really ordered the killing. When a second girl is killed, it becomes obvious that someone else is behind the killing and Marty tries to protect himself and his brother Herbie.
118
30 "A Taste for Pineapple" Alex March Will Lorin 21 May 1963
When racketeer Danny Mundt decides the time has come to get rid of Eliot Ness, he hires hit man Elroy Daldran. During World War I, Elroy had developed a taste for killing and he saw no reason to stop doing what he liked just because the war was over. His first attempt to get Ness — he tosses a grenade into his passing car — isn't entirely successful. Ness manages to jump out of the car before the grenade explodes but when he regains consciousness, he finds that he is blind. While Mundt is satisfied with the result, Elroy won't be satisfied until the job is completely done.
References[edit]
The Untouchables at the Internet Movie Database
1.Jump up ^ DVD release info at TVShowsOnDVD.com
2.Jump up ^ TV Guide Book of Lists. Running Press. 2007. p. 187. ISBN 0-7624-3007-9.


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Eliot Ness ·
 Martin J. Lahart ·
 Samuel M. Seager ·
 Bernard V. Cloonan ·
 Lyle Chapman ·
 Thomas Friel ·
 Joseph Leeson ·
 Paul W. Robsky ·
 Michael King ·
 William Gardner ·
 Others: Jim Seeley ·
 Albert H. Wolff ·
 Unofficial (ie, non-agent): Frank Basile
 

Context
Prohibition ·
 Volstead Act
 

Investigation



Targets

Chicago Outfit ·
 Al Capone ·
 Also: Frank Nitti
 


Law enforcement

Bureau of Prohibition ·
 Treasury's Bureau of Internal Revenue ·
 Frank J. Wilson ·
 Elmer Lincoln Irey
 


Book
The Untouchables (1957 book) ·
 Authors: Eliot Ness ·
 Oscar Fraley
 

Media
The Untouchables (1959 TV series) (episode list) ·
 The Untouchables (film) (1987) ·
 The Untouchables (video game) (1989) ·
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The Untouchables (1993 TV series)
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The Untouchables
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Genre
Crime drama
Starring
Tom Amandes
William Forsythe
Composer(s)
Joel Goldsmith
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
2
No. of episodes
42 (List of episodes)
Production

Producer(s)
Tim Iacofano
 Frederick J. Lyle
Camera setup
Single-camera
Running time
45–48 minutes
Production company(s)
Paramount Television
Distributor
CBS Paramount Domestic Television
CBS Television Distribution
Broadcast

Original channel
Syndication
Original run
January 11, 1993 – May 22, 1994
The Untouchables is an American crime drama series that aired for two seasons in syndication, from January 1993 to May 1994. The series portrayed work of the real life Untouchables federal investigative squad in Prohibition-era Chicago and its efforts against Al Capone's attempts to profit from the market in bootleg liquor.
The series features Tom Amandes as Eliot Ness and William Forsythe as Al Capone, and was based on the 1959 series and 1987 film of the same name.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Synopsis
2 Cast and characters
3 Episodes
4 References
5 Further reading
6 External links

Synopsis[edit]
As in the 1987 film version, Ness is depicted as an agent of the US Treasury Department, though, in real life, at the time of the Capone investigation, the Bureau of Prohibition, Ness' employer, was part of the Department of Justice.
Not as successful as the original 1959 series starring Robert Stack, this series only lasted two seasons. Series star Tom Amandes would later guest star on cast member David James Elliots long running military legal drama JAG.
Cast and characters[edit]

Actor
Character
Tom Amandes Agent Eliot Ness
William Forsythe Al Capone
John Rhys-Davies Agent Michael Malone
Paul Regina Frank Nitti
David James Elliott Agent Paul Robbins
John Haymes Newton Agent Tony Pagano
Michael Horse Agent George Steelman
Episodes[edit]
Main article: List of The Untouchables (1993 TV series) episodes
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Untouchable Then and Now". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
Further reading[edit]
Tucker, Kenneth. Eliot Ness and the Untouchables: The Historical Reality and the Film and Television Depictions. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2000. ISBN 0-7864-0772-7
External links[edit]
The Untouchables at the Internet Movie Database
The Untouchables at TV.com
The Untouchables at epguides.com


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Eliot Ness ·
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 Samuel M. Seager ·
 Bernard V. Cloonan ·
 Lyle Chapman ·
 Thomas Friel ·
 Joseph Leeson ·
 Paul W. Robsky ·
 Michael King ·
 William Gardner ·
 Others: Jim Seeley ·
 Albert H. Wolff ·
 Unofficial (ie, non-agent): Frank Basile
 

Context
Prohibition ·
 Volstead Act
 

Investigation



Targets

Chicago Outfit ·
 Al Capone ·
 Also: Frank Nitti
 


Law enforcement

Bureau of Prohibition ·
 Treasury's Bureau of Internal Revenue ·
 Frank J. Wilson ·
 Elmer Lincoln Irey
 


Book
The Untouchables (1957 book) ·
 Authors: Eliot Ness ·
 Oscar Fraley
 

Media
The Untouchables (1959 TV series) (episode list) ·
 The Untouchables (film) (1987) ·
 The Untouchables (video game) (1989) ·
 The Untouchables (1993 TV series) (episode list)
 

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List of The Untouchables (1993 TV series) episodes
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This is a list of episodes for the 1993–94 television series The Untouchables, starring Tom Amandes as Eliot Ness.


Contents  [hide]
1 Episodes 1.1 Season 1: 1993
1.2 Season 2: 1993–94
2 References

Episodes[edit]
PC = Production code number
Season 1: 1993[edit]

Nº
Title
Air date
PC
1 "The Untouchables: Part 1" 11.Jan.1993 01
2 "The Untouchables: Part 2" 11.Jan.1993 02
3 "First Blood" 17.Jan.1993 03
4 "Murder Ink: Part 1" 24.Jan.1993 04
5 "Murder Ink: Part 2" 31.Jan.1993 05
6 "Deal with the Devil" 07.Feb.1993 06
7 "A Tale of Two Fathers: Part 1" 14.Feb.1993 07
8 "A Tale of Two Fathers: Part 2" 21.Feb.1993 08
9 "The Seduction of Eliot Ness" 14.Mar.1993 09
10 "Chinatown" 21.Mar.1993 10
11 "Pretty Boy Tommy Irish" 11.Apr.1993 12
12 "Pagano's Folly" 25.Apr.1993 11
13 "Framed" 02.May.1993 13
14 "Betrayal in Black and Tan" 09.May.1993 15
15 "One Way Street" 16.May.1993 14
16 "A Man's Home Is His Castle" 23.May.1993 16
17 "Halstead Holler" 06.Jun.1993 17
18 "Atlantic City" 13.Jun.1993 18
Season 2: 1993–94[edit]

Nº
Title
Air date
PC
19 "Stir Crazy" 03.Oct.1993 19
20 "Railroaded" 10.Oct.1993 20
21 "The Crucibles" 17.Oct.1993 21
22 "Capone's Return" 24.Oct.1993 22
23 "Cuba: Part 1" 31.Oct.1993 25
24 "Cuba: Part 2" 07.Nov.1993 26
25 "Radical Solution" 14.Nov.1993 23
26 "The General" 21.Nov.1993 24
27 "Attack on New York" 28.Nov.1993 27
28 "Mind Games" 02.Jan.1994 28
29 "The Skin Trade" 09.Jan.1994 29
30 "The Legacy" 23.Jan.1994 31
31 "Only for You" 30.Jan.1994 30
32 "Stadt" 06.Feb.1994 32
33 "Til Death Do Us Part" 13.Feb.1994 33
34 "The Last Gauntlet" 20.Feb.1994 34
35 "Family Ties" 27.Feb.1994 35
36 "The Fever" 27.Mar.1994 36
37 "Voyeur" 03.Apr.1994 37
38 "Omerta" 24.Apr.1994 38
39 "Apocalypse in Chicago" 01.May.1994 39
40 "Bury My Heart at Starved Rock" 08.May.1994 40
41 "Death and Taxes: Part 1" 15.May.1994 41
42 "Death and Taxes: Part 2" 22.May.1994 42
References[edit]
The Untouchables (1993) at epguides.com





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Members
Eliot Ness ·
 Martin J. Lahart ·
 Samuel M. Seager ·
 Bernard V. Cloonan ·
 Lyle Chapman ·
 Thomas Friel ·
 Joseph Leeson ·
 Paul W. Robsky ·
 Michael King ·
 William Gardner ·
 Others: Jim Seeley ·
 Albert H. Wolff ·
 Unofficial (ie, non-agent): Frank Basile
 

Context
Prohibition ·
 Volstead Act
 

Investigation



Targets

Chicago Outfit ·
 Al Capone ·
 Also: Frank Nitti
 


Law enforcement

Bureau of Prohibition ·
 Treasury's Bureau of Internal Revenue ·
 Frank J. Wilson ·
 Elmer Lincoln Irey
 


Book
The Untouchables (1957 book) ·
 Authors: Eliot Ness ·
 Oscar Fraley
 

Media
The Untouchables (1959 TV series) (episode list) ·
 The Untouchables (film) (1987) ·
 The Untouchables (video game) (1989) ·
 The Untouchables (1993 TV series) (episode list)
 

 


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The Untouchables (film)
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This article is about the 1987 film. For other uses, see Untouchable.

The Untouchables
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Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Brian De Palma
Produced by
Art Linson
Screenplay by
David Mamet
Based on
The Untouchables
 by Oscar Fraley
Eliot Ness
Starring
Kevin Costner
Charles Martin Smith
Andy García
Robert De Niro
Sean Connery
Music by
Ennio Morricone
Cinematography
Stephen H. Burum
Edited by
Gerald B. Greenberg
Bill Pankow
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)
June 2, 1987 (New York City premiere)
June 3, 1987 (United States)

Running time
119 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$20 million[1]
Box office
$106,240,936[2]
The Untouchables is a 1987 American crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma and written by David Mamet. Based on the book The Untouchables, the film stars Kevin Costner as government agent Eliot Ness. It also stars Robert De Niro as gang leader Al Capone and Sean Connery as Irish-American officer Jimmy Malone (based on the real life agent and member of the "Untouchables" Irish-American Marty Lahart). The film follows Ness' autobiographical account of the efforts of him and his Untouchables to bring Capone to justice during Prohibition. The Grammy Award-winning score was composed by Ennio Morricone.
The Untouchables was released on June 3, 1987, and received positive reviews. Observers praised the film for its approach, as well as its direction. The film was also a financial success, grossing $76 million domestically. The Untouchables was nominated for four Academy Awards, of which Connery received one for Best Supporting Actor.[2]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Background
4 Reception 4.1 Academy Awards
4.2 American Film Institute
5 Video game
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
During Prohibition, Al Capone (De Niro) has nearly the whole city of Chicago under his control and supplies illegal liquor. Bureau of Prohibition agent Eliot Ness (Costner), summoned to stop Capone, conducts raids using a large squad of officers. After his efforts fail due to corrupt policemen tipping off Capone, he meets incorruptible Irish-American officer Jim Malone (Connery), who suggests that he enlist men from the police academy who have not yet come under Capone's influence. Italian-American trainee George Stone (Andy García) is chosen for his superior marksmanship and intelligence. They are joined by accountant Oscar Wallace (Charles Martin Smith) assigned to Ness from Washington, D.C.
Wallace informs Ness that Capone has not filed an income tax return in four years; therefore, they can try Capone for tax evasion. Ness is visited by an alderman who tries to bribe him into dropping the investigation but Ness throws him out. When Capone henchman Frank Nitti (Billy Drago) threatens his family, Ness has them moved to a safer place and then takes the team to the Canada – United States border for a raid on a liquor shipment. Ness chases one of the gangsters into an empty house and kills him in self-defense. Malone captures George (Brad Sullivan), a Capone bookkeeper, and brings him back to the house for interrogation. As George proves uncooperative, Malone grabs the dead man and shoots him to coerce George into cooperating, much to the dismay of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police who have assisted in the raid. While Wallace is taking George into protective custody , Nitti infiltrates the police station and kills Wallace and George , writing "touchable" on the wall with blood. Ness angrily confronts Capone and his men, but Malone intervenes, as Capone mocks Ness over the death of his friend. Malone persuades Ness to stall the district attorney (Clifton James) from dropping the case, then corners police chief Mike Dorsett, who sold out Wallace to Capone. Malone learns about another Capone accountant, Walter Payne, and calls Ness with the news. A knife-wielding thug breaks into Malone’s home; Malone forces him out of the backdoor with a shotgun, only to step into a Tommy gun ambush by Nitti. He lives long enough for Ness and Stone to find him, and advise which train Payne will take out of town before he dies.
Ness and Stone arrive at Union Station and find Payne guarded by several gangsters. After a fierce shootout, the two succeed in killing the gangsters and taking Payne alive. He testifies in court about the untaxed cash flows throughout Capone's organization. Ness notices that Capone seems unperturbed despite the probability of serving a long prison sentence, and also sees Nitti carrying a gun inside his jacket. He escorts Nitti out of the courtroom with the bailiff and discovers that Nitti has the mayor’s permission to carry the weapon. Ness identifies Nitti as Malone’s assassin after seeing Malone's address in Nitti's matchbook.
Nitti shoots the bailiff in a panic and flees to the roof of the courthouse, but Ness corners him. After fighting down his urge to take revenge for Malone, Ness plans to deliver Nitti to the authorities; but when Nitti mocks him, saying that he will never go to prison, Ness angrily pushes him off the roof. In the courtroom, Stone shows Ness a document from Nitti’s jacket that reveals that the jury was bribed, explaining Capone's relaxed mood. The judge has no intention of using it as evidence until Ness bluffs that the judge's name is in Payne’s ledger of payoffs. The judge decides to switch juries with a neighboring courtroom and restart the trial. However, Capone's lawyer suddenly withdraws their plea of "not guilty" and enters a plea of "guilty" without Capone's consent, and Capone is sentenced to eleven years in prison.
Packing up his Chicago office, Ness ponders the Saint Jude pendant that Malone had carried with him for many years, and which Malone had given to him before dying. He gives the pendant to Stone, reasoning that Malone would have wanted a cop to have it. When a reporter mentions that Prohibition is due to be repealed and asks Ness what he might do then, Ness responds, "I think I’ll have a drink."
Cast[edit]
Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness
Sean Connery as Jimmy Malone
Charles Martin Smith as Oscar Wallace
Andy García as George Stone
Robert De Niro as Al Capone
Patricia Clarkson as Catherine Ness
Billy Drago as Frank Nitti
Richard Bradford as Chief Mike Dorsett
Jack Kehoe as Walter Payne
Brad Sullivan as George
Clifton James as District Attorney
Background[edit]
De Niro wanted one extra scene written for his character, and time to finish his commitment to the Broadway production of Cuba and His Teddy Bear and to gain about 30 pounds (14 kg) to play Capone; according to De Palma, De Niro was "very concerned about the shape of his face for the part."[1] The Untouchables began production in Chicago on August 18, 1986.[3] Actual historical Chicago locations were featured in the movie.[4]
A month after the film was released, De Palma downplayed his role on the film:

Being a writer myself, I don't like to take credit for things I didn't do. I didn't develop this script. David [Mamet] used some of my ideas and he didn't use some of them. I looked upon it more clinically, as a piece of material that has to be shaped, with certain scenes here or there. But as for the moral dimension, that's more or less the conception of the script, and I just implemented it with my skills – which are well developed. It's good to walk in somebody else's shoes for a while. You get out of your own obsessions; you are in the service of somebody else's vision, and that's a great discipline for a director.[5]
De Palma met with Bob Hoskins to discuss the role in case De Niro, the director's first choice for the part, turned it down. When De Niro took the part, De Palma mailed Hoskins a check for £20,000 with a "Thank You" note, which prompted Hoskins to call up De Palma and ask him if there were any more movies he didn't want him to be in.[6]
Reception[edit]
The Untouchables opened on June 3, 1987 in 1,012 theatres where it grossed $10,023,094 on its opening weekend and ranked the sixth-highest opening weekend of 1987. It went on to make $76.2 million in North America.[7] According to producer Art Linson, the polls conducted for the film showed that approximately 50% of the audience was women. "Ordinarily, a violent film attracts predominantly men, but this is also touching, about redemption and relationships and because of that the audience tends to forgive the excesses when it comes to violence".[8]
The Untouchables received positive reviews from film critics and has an 81% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Vincent Canby, of The New York Times, gave the film a positive review, calling it "a smashing work" and saying it was "vulgar, violent, funny and sometimes breathtakingly beautiful".[9] Conversely, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film for its action sequences and locations but disapproved of David Mamet's script and Brian De Palma's direction.[10] Hal Hinson, in his review for the Washington Post, also criticized De Palma's direction: "And somehow we're put off here by the spectacular stuff he throws up onto the screen. De Palma's storytelling instincts have given way completely to his interest in film as a visual medium. His only real concern is his own style".[11] Time magazine's Richard Schickel wrote, "Mamet's elegantly efficient script does not waste a word, and De Palma does not waste a shot. The result is a densely layered work moving with confident, compulsive energy".[12]
Ebert singled out De Niro's scenes portraying Al Capone as the biggest disappointment of the film, while giving praise to Sean Connery's work. While he was voted first place in an Empire magazine historical poll for worst film accent,[13] Connery was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance. Pauline Kael called it "a great audience movie – a wonderful potboiler." Time magazine ranked it as one of the best films of 1987.[14]
Academy Awards[edit]

Award
Person

Won:
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Sean Connery
Nominated:
Best Art Direction – Set Decoration Patrizia von Brandenstein
William A. Elliott
Hal Gausman
Best Costume Design Marilyn Vance
Best Score Ennio Morricone
American Film Institute[edit]
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – Nominated[15]
AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills – Nominated[16]
AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains: Al Capone – Nominated (Villain)[17]
Eliot Ness – Nominated (Hero)[17]
AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores – Nominated[18]
AFI's 10 Top 10 – Nominated (Gangster Film)[19]
Video game[edit]

[hide]Reception


Review scores

Publication
Score
Computer and Video Games 85%[23]
Crash 94%[21]
Sinclair User 95%[22]
Your Sinclair 94%[20]
Zzap!64 96%[25]
The Games Machine 96%[24]


Awards

Publication
Award
Zzap!64 Gold Medal
Crash Crash Smash
Your Sinclair Megagame

A side-scrolling video game was released by Ocean Software in 1989 on ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MSX, Amiga, DOS, and later on NES, and SNES. Based loosely on the movie, the game plays out some of the more significant parts of the film. Set in Chicago, the primary goal of the game is to take down Al Capone's henchmen and eventually detain Capone.
References[edit]
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Goodfellas
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Goodfellas
Goodfellas.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Martin Scorsese
Produced by
Irwin Winkler
Screenplay by
Martin Scorsese
Nicholas Pileggi
Based on
Wiseguy
 by Nicholas Pileggi
Starring
Robert De Niro
Ray Liotta
Joe Pesci
Lorraine Bracco
Paul Sorvino
Cinematography
Michael Ballhaus
Edited by
Thelma Schoonmaker
Distributed by
Warner Bros.
Release date(s)
September 19, 1990

Running time
146 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$25 million[1]
Box office
$46,836,214
Goodfellas (styled as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese. The film follows the rise and fall of Lucchese crime family associate Henry Hill and his friends over a period from 1955 to 1980.
Scorsese initially named the film Wise Guy, but postponed it, and later he and Pileggi changed the name to Goodfellas. To prepare for their roles in the film, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Ray Liotta often spoke with Pileggi, who shared research material left over from writing the book. According to Pesci, improvisation and ad-libbing came out of rehearsals where Scorsese gave the actors freedom to do whatever they wanted. The director made transcripts of these sessions, took the lines he liked best, and put them into a revised script the cast worked from during principal photography.
Goodfellas performed well at the box office, grossing $46.8 million domestically, well above its $25 million budget. It also received positive reviews from critics. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won for Pesci in the Best Actor in a Supporting Role category. Scorsese's film won five awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, including Best Film, and Best Director. The film was named Best Film of the year by various film critics groups. Goodfellas is often considered one of the greatest films of all time, both in the crime genre and in general, and was deemed "culturally significant" and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress. Scorsese followed this film up with two more films about organized crime: 1995's Casino and 2006's The Departed.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Development 3.1 Screenplay
3.2 Casting
3.3 Principal photography
3.4 Post-production
4 Soundtrack
5 Release and reception 5.1 Distribution
5.2 Reviews
5.3 Lists
5.4 Awards
5.5 Legacy
6 References
7 Bibliography
8 External links

Plot[edit]
Henry Hill (Liotta) admits, "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster," referring to his idolizing the Lucchese crime family gangsters in his blue-collar, predominantly Italian-American neighborhood in East New York, Brooklyn in 1955. Wanting to be part of something significant, Henry quits school and goes to work for them. His Irish-American father tries to stop Henry after learning of his truancy, but the gangsters threaten the local postal carrier with dire consequences should he deliver any more letters from the school to Henry's house. Henry is able to make a living for himself, and learns the two most important lessons in life: "Never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut," the advice given to him after being acquitted of criminal charges early in his career.
Henry is taken under the wing of the local mob capo, Paul "Paulie" Cicero (Sorvino) and his associates, James "Jimmy the Gent" Conway (De Niro), who loves hijacking trucks, and Tommy DeVito (Pesci), an aggressive armed robber with a hair-trigger temper. In late 1967 they commit the Air France Robbery, marking Henry's debut into the big time. Enjoying the perks of their criminal life, they spend most of their nights at the Copacabana with countless women. Henry meets and later marries Karen (Bracco), a Jewish woman from the Five Towns. Karen is initially troubled by Henry's criminal activities, but is soon seduced by his glamorous lifestyle. When a neighbor assaults her for refusing his advances, Henry pistol-whips him in front of her. She feels aroused by the act, especially when Henry gives her the gun and tells her to hide it.
On June 11, 1970, Tommy (with Jimmy's help) brutally beats Billy Batts (Vincent), a mobster with the Gambino crime family, to death for insulting him about being a shoeshine boy in his younger days. However, Batts was a made man, meaning that he could not be touched without the consent of his Gambino family bosses. Realizing that this was an offense that could get them all killed, Jimmy, Henry, and Tommy need to cover up the murder. They transport the body in the trunk of Henry's car and bury it upstate. Six months later Jimmy learns that the burial site will be developed, forcing them to exhume the decomposing corpse and move it.
Henry has a mistress named Janice Rossi (Mastrogiacomo) and sets her up in an apartment. When Karen finds out, she goes to the apartment building to confront her, but is not allowed past the front door. She then confronts Henry, points a revolver at his face, and threatens to kill both of them, demanding to know if he loves Janice. Karen cannot bring herself to kill him and an enraged Henry threatens Karen with the gun and says he has bigger concerns, like being murdered on the streets. Henry goes to live in the apartment with Janice. Paulie soon directs him to return to Karen after completing a job for him; Henry and Jimmy are sent to collect from an indebted gambler in Florida, which they succeed at after beating him. However most of the crew are arrested after being turned in by the gambler's sister, a typist for the FBI.
In prison, Henry sells drugs to support his family on the outside. Soon after he is released in 1978, the crew commits the Lufthansa heist at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Despite Paulie's warning to stop, Henry further establishes himself in the drug trade, convincing Tommy and Jimmy to join him. Jimmy has the other participants in the Lufthansa robbery killed after they ignore his command to not immediately buy expensive luxuries with their share of the stolen money. Then Tommy is killed for the murder of Billy Batts, having been fooled into thinking that he is going to be made.
By 1980, Henry is a nervous wreck from cocaine use and insomnia, as he tries to organize a drug deal with his associates in Pittsburgh. However, he is caught by narcotics agents and sent to jail. On his release, Karen tells him that she flushed $60,000 worth of cocaine down the toilet to prevent the FBI agents from finding it during their raid, leaving Henry and his family virtually penniless. Feeling Henry betrayed him by dealing drugs, Paulie gives Henry $3,200 and ends his association with him. Henry decides to enroll in the Witness Protection Program after realizing that Jimmy intends to have him killed. Forced out of his gangster life, he now has to face living in the real world: "I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook."
Titles explain that Henry was subsequently arrested on drug charges in Seattle, Washington, but has been clean since 1987. He and Karen separated in 1989 after 25 years of marriage. Paul Cicero died in Fort Worth Federal Prison of respiratory illness in 1988 at 73. Jimmy, in 1990, was serving a 20-year-to-life sentence in a New York State prison.
Cast[edit]
Ray Liotta as Henry Hill
Robert De Niro as James "Jimmy the Gent" Conway
Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito
Lorraine Bracco as Karen Hill
Paul Sorvino as Paul "Paulie" Cicero
Frank Sivero as Frankie Carbone
Frank Vincent as Billy Batts
Tony Darrow as Sonny Bunz
Mike Starr as Frenchy
Chuck Low as Morrie Kessler
Frank DiLeo as Tuddy Cicero
Johnny Williams as Johnny Roastbeef
Samuel L. Jackson as Parnell "Stacks" Edwards
Frank Adonis as Anthony Stabile
Catherine Scorsese as Tommy DeVito's mother
Gina Mastrogiacomo as Janice Rossi
Debi Mazar as Sandy
Margo Winkler as Belle Kessler
 Welker White as Lois Byrd
Julie Garfield as Mickey Conway
Paul Herman as Dealer
Detective Ed Deacy as himself
Christopher Serrone as young Henry Hill
Charles Scorsese as Vinnie
Michael Vivalo as Nicky Eyes
Michael Imperioli as "Spider"
Tony Sirico as Tony Stacks
Frank Pellegrino as Johnny Dio
Tony Ellis as bridal shop owner
Elizabeth Whitcraft as Tommy's girlfriend
Illeana Douglas as Tommy's other girlfriend
Anthony Powers as Jimmy Two-Times
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ed McDonald as himself
Tony Lip as Frankie "the wop"
Joseph Bono as Mikey Franzese
Kevin Corrigan as Michael Hill
Tobin Bell as parole officer
Henny Youngman as himself
Vito Picone as "Vito"

Development[edit]
Goodfellas is based on New York crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi's book Wiseguy. Martin Scorsese never intended to make another mob film until he read a review of the book which inspired him to read it[2] while working on the set of Color of Money in 1986.[3] He had always been fascinated by the Mob lifestyle and was drawn to Pileggi's book because it was the most honest portrayal of gangsters he had ever read.[4] After he read Pileggi's book, the filmmaker knew what approach he wanted to take: "To begin Goodfellas like a gunshot and have it get faster from there, almost like a two-and-a-half-hour trailer. I think it's the only way you can really sense the exhilaration of the lifestyle, and to get a sense of why a lot of people are attracted to it."[5] According to Pileggi, Scorsese cold-called the writer and told him, "I've been waiting for this book my entire life." To which Pileggi replied "I've been waiting for this phone call my entire life".[6]
Scorsese originally intended to direct the film before The Last Temptation of Christ, but when funds materialized to make Last Temptation, he decided to postpone Wise Guy. He was drawn to the documentary aspects of Pileggi's book. "The book Wise Guys gives you a sense of the day-to-day life, the tedium - how they work, how they take over certain nightclubs, and for what reasons. It shows how it's done".[6] He saw Goodfellas as the third film in an unplanned trilogy of films that examined the lives of Italian-Americans "from slightly different angles".[7] He has often described the film as "a mob home movie" that is about money because "that's what they're really in business for".[4]
Screenplay[edit]
Scorsese and Pileggi collaborated on the screenplay and over the course of the 12 drafts it took to reach the ideal script, the reporter realized that "the visual styling had to be completely redone… So we decided to share credit".[6][8] They decided which sections of the book they liked and put them together like building blocks.[1] Scorsese persuaded Pileggi that they did not need to follow a traditional narrative structure. The director wanted to take the gangster film and deal with it episode by episode but start in the middle and move backwards and forwards. Scorsese would compact scenes and realized that if they were kept short, "the impact after about an hour and a half would be terrific".[1] He wanted to do the voiceover like the opening of Jules and Jim and use "all the basic tricks of the New Wave from around 1961".[1] The names of several real-life gangsters were altered for the film: Tommy "Two Gunn" DeSimone became the character Tommy DeVito; Paul Vario became Paulie Cicero and Jimmy "The Gent" Burke was portrayed as Jimmy Conway.[8] Pileggi and Scorsese decided to change the title of their film to Goodfellas because Wiseguys, the same name of Pileggi's book, had already been used for a 1986 comedy film by Brian De Palma and a TV series (1987-90).[1]
Casting[edit]
Once Robert De Niro agreed to play Conway, Scorsese was able to secure the money needed to make the film.[3] The director cast Ray Liotta after De Niro saw him in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild and Scorsese was surprised by "his explosive energy" in that film.[7] The actor had read Pileggi's book when it came out and was fascinated by it. A couple of years afterwards, his agent told him that Scorsese was going to direct a film version. In 1988, Liotta met the director over a period of a couple of months and auditioned for the film.[4] The actor campaigned aggressively for a role in the film but the studio wanted a well-known actor. "I think they would've rather had Eddie Murphy than me", the actor remembers.[9]
To prepare for the role, De Niro consulted with Pileggi who had research material that had been discarded while writing the book.[10] De Niro often called Hill several times a day to ask how Burke walked, held his cigarette, and so on.[11][12] Driving to and from the set, Liotta listened to FBI audio cassette tapes of Hill, so he could practice speaking like his real-life counterpart.[12] To research her role, Lorraine Bracco tried to get close to a mob wife but was unable to because they exist in a very tight-knit community. She decided not to meet the real Karen because she "thought it would be better if the creation came from me. I used her life with her parents as an emotional guideline for the role".[13] Paul Sorvino had no problem finding the voice and walk of his character but found it challenging finding "that kernel of coldness and absolute hardness that is antithetical to my nature except when my family is threatened".[14]
Principal photography[edit]
Two weeks in advance of the filming, the real Henry Hill was paid $480,000.[8] The film was shot on location in Queens, New York, New Jersey, and parts of Long Island during the spring and summer of 1989, with a budget of $25 million.[8] Scorsese broke the film down into sequences and storyboarded everything because of the complicated style throughout. According to the filmmaker, he "wanted lots of movement and I wanted it to be throughout the whole picture, and I wanted the style to kind of break down by the end, so that by [Henry's] last day as a wiseguy, it's as if the whole picture would be out of control, give the impression he's just going to spin off the edge and fly out."[2] He claims that the film's style comes from the first two or three minutes of Jules and Jim: extensive narration, quick edits, freeze frames, and multiple locale switches.[5] It was this reckless attitude towards convention that mirrored the attitude of many of the gangsters in the film. Scorsese remarked, "So if you do the movie, you say, 'I don't care if there's too much narration. Too many quick cuts?—That's too bad.' It's that kind of really punk attitude we're trying to show".[5] He adopted a frenetic style to almost overwhelm the audience with images and information.[1] He also put plenty of detail in every frame because the gangster life is so rich. The use of freeze frames was done because Scorsese wanted images that would stop "because a point was being reached" in Henry's life.[1]
Joe Pesci did not judge his character but found the scene where he kills Spider for talking back to his character hard to do because he had trouble justifying the action until he forced himself to feel the way Tommy did.[4] Lorraine Bracco found the shoot to be an emotionally difficult one because it was such a male-dominated cast and realized that if she did not make her "work important, it would probably end up on the cutting room floor".[4] When it came to the relationship between Henry and Karen, Bracco saw no difference between an abused wife and her character.[4]
According to Pesci, improvisation and ad-libbing came out of rehearsals where Scorsese let the actors do whatever they wanted. He made transcripts of these sessions, took the lines that the actors came up with that he liked best, and put them into a revised script that the cast worked from during principal photography.[10] For example, the scene where Tommy tells a story and Henry is responding to him — the "Funny how? Do I amuse you?" scene — is based on an actual event that happened to Pesci. It was worked on in rehearsals where he and Liotta improvised and Scorsese recorded 4–5 takes, rewrote their dialogue and inserted it into the script.[15] The cast did not meet Henry Hill during the film's shoot until a few weeks before it premiered. Liotta met him in an undisclosed city. Hill had seen the film and told the actor that he loved it.[4]
The long tracking shot through the Copacabana nightclub came about because of a practical problem: the filmmakers could not get permission to go in the short way and this forced them to go round the back.[1] Scorsese decided to film the sequence in one unbroken shot in order to symbolize that Henry's entire life was ahead of him, commenting, "It's his seduction of her [Karen] and it's also the lifestyle seducing him."[1] This sequence was shot eight times.[15]
Henry's last day as a wiseguy was the hardest part of the film for Scorsese to shoot because he wanted to properly show Henry's state of anxiety, paranoia and racing thoughts caused by cocaine and amphetamines intoxication, which is difficult for an actor (who had never been under their influence) to accurately portray.[1] Scorsese explains to movie critic Mark Cousins in an interview the reason for the Joe Pesci shooting at the screen shot at the end of the film, "well that's a reference right to the end of The Great Train Robbery, that's the way that ends, that film, and basically the plot of this picture is very similar to The Great Train Robbery. It hasn't changed, 90 years later, it's the same story, the gun shots will always be there, he's always going to look behind his back, he's gotta have eyes behind his back, because they're gonna get him someday." The director ended the film with Henry regretting that he is no longer a wiseguy and Scorsese said, "I think the audience should get angry at him and I would hope they do—and maybe with the system which allows this."[1]
Post-production[edit]
Scorsese wanted to depict the film's violence realistically, "cold, unfeeling and horrible. Almost incidental."[3] However, he had to remove ten frames of blood to ensure an R rating from the MPAA.[7] With a budget of $25 million, Goodfellas was Scorsese's most expensive film to date but still only a medium budget by Hollywood standards. It was also the first time he was obliged by Warner Bros. to preview the film. It was shown twice in California and a lot of audiences were "agitated" by Henry's last day as a wise guy sequence and Scorsese argued that that was the point of the scene.[1] Scorsese and the film's editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, made this sequence faster with more jump cuts to convey Henry's drug-addled point of view. In the first test screening there were 40 walkouts in the first ten minutes.[15] One of the favorite scenes for test audiences was the one where Tommy tells the story and Henry is responding to him—the "Do I amuse you?" scene.[1]
Soundtrack[edit]
Main article: Goodfellas (soundtrack)
Scorsese chose the songs for the soundtrack using only those that commented on the scene or the characters "in an oblique way".[7] The only rule he adhered to with the soundtrack was to only use music that could have been heard at that time. For example, if a scene took place in 1973, he could use any song that was current or older. According to Scorsese, a lot of non-dialogue scenes were shot to playback. For example, he had "Layla" playing on the set while shooting the scene where the dead bodies are discovered in the car, dumpster, and the meat-truck. Sometimes, the lyrics of songs were put between lines of dialogue to comment on the action.[1] Some of the music Scorsese had written into the script while other songs he discovered during the editing phase.[15]
Release and reception[edit]
Distribution[edit]
Goodfellas had its world premiere at the 1990 Venice Film Festival where Scorsese received the Silver Lion award for Best Director.[16] It was given a wide release in North America on September 21, 1990 in 1,070 theaters with an opening weekend gross of US$6.3 million. It went on to make $46.8 million domestically, well above its $25 million budget.[17]
Reviews[edit]
The film was released to critical acclaim and currently has a 96% rating at Rotten Tomatoes and an 89 metascore at Metacritic.[18] In his review for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert wrote, "No finer film has ever been made about organized crime - not even The Godfather."[19] In his review for the Chicago Tribune, Gene Siskel wrote, "All of the performances are first-rate; Pesci stands out, though, with his seemingly unscripted manner. GoodFellas is easily one of the year's best films."[18] In his review for The New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote, "More than any earlier Scorsese film, Goodfellas is memorable for the ensemble nature of the performances… The movie has been beautifully cast from the leading roles to the bits. There is flash also in some of Mr. Scorsese's directorial choices, including freeze frames, fast cutting and the occasional long tracking shot. None of it is superfluous".[20] USA Today gave the film four out of four stars and called it, "great cinema—and also a whopping good time".[5] David Ansen, in his review for Newsweek magazine, wrote "Every crisp minute of this long, teeming movie vibrates with outlaw energy". Rex Reed said "Big, Rich, Powerful and Explosive. One of Scorsese's best films! Goodfellas is great entertainment."[21] In his review for Time, Richard Corliss wrote, "So it is Scorsese's triumph that GoodFellas offers the fastest, sharpest 2½-hr. ride in recent film history."[22]
Lists[edit]
The film is ranked #1 of the best of 1990 by Roger Ebert,[23] Gene Siskel,[23] and Peter Travers.[24] It is 38th on James Berardinelli's Top 100 Films.[25]
Awards[edit]

Award
Category
Nominee
Result
Academy Award Best Picture[26] Martin Scorsese and Irwin Winkler Nominated
Best Director[26] Martin Scorsese Nominated
Best Film Editing[26] Thelma Schoonmaker Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay[26] Martin Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi Nominated
Best Supporting Actor[26] Joe Pesci Won
Best Supporting Actress[26] Lorraine Bracco Nominated
Golden Globe Award Best Motion Picture – Drama[27] Martin Scorsese and Irwin Winkler Nominated
Best Director[27] Martin Scorsese Nominated
Best Supporting Actor[27] Joe Pesci Nominated
Best Supporting Actress[27] Lorraine Bracco Nominated
Best Screenplay[27] Martin Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi Nominated
British Academy Film Award Best Film Martin Scorsese and Irwin Winkler Won
Best Director Martin Scorsese Won
Best Adapted Screenplay Martin Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi Won
Best Actor Robert De Niro Nominated
Best Editing Thelma Schoonmaker Won
Best Cinematography Michael Ballhaus Nominated
Best Costume Design Richard Bruno Won
Directors Guild of America Award Outstanding Directing - Feature Martin Scorsese Nominated
Writers Guild of America Award Best Adapted Screenplay Martin Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi Nominated
César Award Best Non-French Film Martin Scorsese and Irwin Winkler Nominated
Venice Film Festival Silver Lion for Best Director[28] Martin Scorsese Won
Audience Award Martin Scorsese Won
Filmcritica "Bastone Bianco" Award Martin Scorsese Won
New York Film Critics Circle Award Best Film Martin Scorsese and Irwin Winkler Won
Best Director Martin Scorsese Won
Best Actor Robert De Niro Won
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award Best Film Martin Scorsese and Irwin Winkler Won
Best Director Martin Scorsese Won
Best Supporting Actor Joe Pesci Won
Best Supporting Actress Lorraine Bracco Won
Best Cinematography Michael Ballhaus Won
National Board of Review Award Best Supporting Actor Joe Pesci Won
Boston Society of Film Critics Award Best Film Martin Scorsese and Irwin Winkler Won
Best Director Martin Scorsese Won
Best Supporting Actor Joe Pesci Won
Chicago Film Critics Association Award Best Film Martin Scorsese and Irwin Winkler Won
Best Director Martin Scorsese Won
Best Supporting Actor Joe Pesci Won
Best Supporting Actress Lorraine Bracco Won
Best Screenplay Martin Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi Won
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award Best Film Martin Scorsese and Irwin Winkler Won
Best Director Martin Scorsese Won
Best Supporting Actor Joe Pesci Won
National Society of Film Critics Award Best Film Martin Scorsese and Irwin Winkler Won
Best Director Martin Scorsese Won
Bodil Award Best American Film Martin Scorsese and Irwin Winkler Won
Legacy[edit]
Goodfellas is #94 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years, 100 Movies" list and moved up to #92 on its AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) from 2007. In June 2008, the AFI put Goodfellas at #2 on their AFI's 10 Top 10—the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. Goodfellas was acknowledged as the second best in the gangster film genre (after The Godfather).[29] In 2000, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Roger Ebert named Goodfellas the "best mob movie ever" and placed it among the best films of the 1990s.[30] In December 2002, a UK film critics poll in Sight and Sound ranked the film #4 on their list of the 10 Best Films of the Last 25 Years.[31] Time included Goodfellas in their list of Time's All-TIME 100 Movies.[32] Channel 4 placed Goodfellas at #10 in their 2002 poll The 100 Greatest Films. Empire listed Goodfellas at #6 on their "500 Greatest Movies Of All Time".[33] Total Film voted Goodfellas #1 as the greatest film of all time.[34]
Premiere listed Joe Pesci's Tommy DeVito as #96 on its list of "The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time," calling him "perhaps the single most irredeemable character ever put on film."[35] Empire ranked Tommy DeVito #59 in their "The 100 Greatest Movie Characters" poll.[36]
Goodfellas inspired director David Chase to make the HBO television series The Sopranos. Chase said "Goodfellas is the Koran for me." He also told Peter Bogdanovich: "Goodfellas is a very important movie to me and Goodfellas really plowed that ... I found that movie very funny and brutal and it felt very real. And yet that was the first mob movie that Scorsese ever dealt with a mob crew. ... as opposed to say The Godfather ... which there's something operatic about it, classical, even the clothing and the cars. You know I mean I always think about Goodfellas when they go to their mother's house that night when they're eating, you know when she brings out her painting, that stuff is great. I mean The Sopranos learned a lot from that."[37] Indeed, numerous actors from Goodfellas, such as Tony Sirico, Michael Imperioli, Frank Pellegrino, Tony Lip, Frank Vincent and Lorraine Bracco, would later be cast in major roles on The Sopranos.
July 24, 2010 marked the twentieth anniversary of the film's release. This milestone was celebrated with Henry Hill's hosting a private screening for a select group of invitees at the Museum of the American Gangster, in New York City.[38]
In January 2012, it was announced that the AMC Network has put in development a television series version of the movie. Pileggi is on board to co-write the adaptation with television writer-producer Jorge Zamacona. The two will executive produce with the film's producer Irwin Winkler and his son, David.[39]
American Film Institute Lists
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies - #94
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains: Tommy DeVito - Nominated Villain
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes: "Funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you?" - Nominated
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) - #92
AFI's 10 Top 10 - #2 Gangster film
References[edit]
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2.^ Jump up to: a b Malcolm, Derek (September–October 1990). "Made Men". Film Comment.
3.^ Jump up to: a b c Goodwin, Richard. "The Making of Goodfellas". Hotdog.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Linfield, Susan (September 16, 1990). "Goodfellas Looks at the Banality of Mob Life". New York Times.
5.^ Jump up to: a b c d Clark, Mike (September 19, 1990). "GoodFellas step from his childhood". USA Today.
6.^ Jump up to: a b c Kelly, Mary Pat (March 2003). "Martin Scorsese: A Journey". Thunder Mouth Press.
7.^ Jump up to: a b c d Gilbert, Matthew (September 16, 1990). "Scorsese Tackles the Mob". Boston Globe.
8.^ Jump up to: a b c d Hughes, Howard Crime Wave: The Filmgoers' guide to the great crime movies pp. 176–177.
9.Jump up ^ Portman, Jamie (October 1, 1990). "Goodfellas Star Prefers Quiet Life". Toronto Star.
10.^ Jump up to: a b Arnold, Gary (September 25, 1990). "Real Fellas Talk about Mob Film". Washington Times.
11.Jump up ^ Wolf, Buck (November 8, 2005). "Rap Star 50 Cent Joins Movie Mobsters". ABC News. Retrieved 2007-06-24.
12.^ Jump up to: a b Papamichael, Stella (October 22, 2004). "GoodFellas: Special Edition DVD (1990)". BBC. Retrieved 2007-06-24.
13.Jump up ^ Witchel, Alex (September 27, 1990). "A Mafia Wife Makes Lorraine Bracco a Princess". New York Times.
14.Jump up ^ Van Gelder, Lawrence (October 12, 1990). "At the Movies". New York Times.
15.^ Jump up to: a b c d Kaplan, Jonah (writer and editor); Stephen Altobellow and Jeffrey Schwartz (producers) (2004). "Getting Made: The Making of Goodfellas". Goodfellas (Blu-ray Disc) (Warner Home Video). ISBN 1-4198-4306-0.
16.Jump up ^ Malcolm, Derek (September 17, 1990). "The Venice Film Festival ends in uproar". The Guardian.
17.Jump up ^ "Goodfellas". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2008-03-20.
18.^ Jump up to: a b "Critic Rreviews for Goodfellas". Metacritic.
19.Jump up ^ "GoodFellas :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews". Roger Ebert. September 2, 1990.
20.Jump up ^ Canby, Vincent (September 19, 1990). "A Cold-Eyed Look at the Mob's Inner Workings". The New York Times.
21.Jump up ^ Ansen, David (September 17, 1990). "A Hollywood Crime Wave". Newsweek.
22.Jump up ^ Corliss, Richard (September 24, 1990). "Married to the Mob". Time. Retrieved 2009-01-29.
23.^ Jump up to: a b Siskel and Ebert Top Ten Lists (1969-1998)
24.Jump up ^ Peter Travers' Top Ten Lists 1989-2005
25.Jump up ^ Berardinelli's Top 100
26.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/63rd.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
27.^ Jump up to: a b c d e http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/film/24169. Missing or empty |title= (help)
28.Jump up ^ "47th Venice Film Festival 1990". Retrieved November 3, 2013.
29.Jump up ^ "AFI's 10 Top 10". American Film Institute. 2008-06-17. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
30.Jump up ^ "Best Films of the '90s". At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper. 2000-02-27. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
31.Jump up ^ "Modern Times". Sight and Sound. December 2002. Retrieved 2008-08-27.
32.Jump up ^ Schickel, Richard (February 12, 2005). "All-Time 100 Movies". Time. Retrieved 2009-01-29.
33.Jump up ^ "The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time". Empire. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
34.Jump up ^ "Goodfellas named "greatest movie"". BBC NEWS. October 25, 2005.
35.Jump up ^ "The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time". Premiere. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
36.Jump up ^ "The 100 Greatest Movie Characters". Empire. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
37.Jump up ^ "HBO: The Sopranos: Interview with Peter Bogdanovich". HBO. 1999.
38.Jump up ^ "Goodfellas' Henry Hill Back in NYC for 20th Anniversary". WPIX-TV 11. 2010-07-24. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
39.Jump up ^ Andreeva, Nellie (January 10, 2012). "'Goodfellas' Series In The Works At AMC With Film's Nicholas Pileggi & Irwin Winkler". Deadline.com. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
Bibliography[edit]
Martin Scorsese: A Journey, by Mary Pat Kelly (2003, Thunder Mouth Press), ISBN 978-1-56025-470-6.
Scorsese on Scorsese, by David Thompson and Ian Christie (2004, Faber and Faber), ISBN 978-0-571-22002-1.
Goodfellas, by Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese (1990, Faber and Faber), ISBN 978-0-571-16265-9.
Wiseguy, by Nicholas Pileggi (1990, Rei Mti), ISBN 978-0-671-72322-4.
External links[edit]
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Wiseguy (book)
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Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family

Author
Nicholas Pileggi
Country
United States
Language
English
Subject
True crime, biography, Henry Hill, Mafia, criminals, case studies
Genre
Biography, case studies
Publisher
Simon & Schuster

Publication date
 January 1985
Media type
Print (hardcover & paperback), eBook, audio cassette, audio CD, Audible Audio Edition, Amazon Kindle
Pages
256 pp (hardcover)
ISBN
0-671-44734-3
OCLC
12558700

Dewey Decimal
 364.15092
Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family (ISBN 0-671-44734-3) is a 1986 non-fiction book by crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi that chronicles the story of Mafia mobster-turned-informant Henry Hill.[1] The book is the basis for the 1990 Academy Award-winning film Goodfellas[2] directed by Martin Scorsese.[3]
Summary[edit]
Henry Hill began his life of crime at age 12 in 1955 by working as a go-fer for Paul Vario, the local boss of Hill's working class Irish/Italian neighborhood. Eventually Hill was "promoted" to selling stolen cigarettes for Vario. Henry was first arrested in 1959 for using stolen credit cards. Hill refused to cooperate with the police, earning the respect of Vario and Vario's associate Jimmy Burke.
In 1960, when Hill was 17, he enlisted in the United States Army, to everyone's surprise. When questioned about his decision by Vario, Hill explained that he wanted to please his father, who disapproved of his son's association with the Mafia. While stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, however, Hill continued his criminal activities, which led to his discharge in 1963. He returned to the streets of New York, where he was happily welcomed back by Vario and Burke. In 1964, Hill met Tommy DeSimone, a young aspiring gangster with psychopathic tendencies, and both worked as stick-up men for Vario, hijacking trucks and selling the stolen goods on the street. In 1965 Hill reluctantly joined Lenny Vario, Paul Vario's son, on a double date, where he met Karen Friedman, a young Jewish girl from the Five Towns section of New York. The two continued to date and eloped only four months after meeting. They had their first child, Gregg, in 1966, and a second, Gina, in 1968.
In 1967, Jimmy Burke masterminded a robbery of the Air France cargo terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The heist was carried out by Hill, DeSimone, Robert "Frenchy" McMahon, and Montague Montemurro in April of that year.
In 1969, Hill began an affair with Linda Coppociano behind Karen's back, and bought a restaurant/lounge called The Suite. It was here that on June 11, 1970, Burke and DeSimone murdered William "Billy Batts" Devino, a made man with the Gambino crime family and a close friend of fellow mobster John Gotti.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Patrick, Vincent (January 26, 1986). "NOT-SO-ORGANIZED CRIME". The New York Times.
2.Jump up ^ "Goodfellas (1990) Awards". The New York Times.
3.Jump up ^ Canby, Vincent (September 19, 1990). "Goodfellas (1990) Review/Film; A Cold-Eyed Look at the Mob's Inner Workings". The New York Times.
External links[edit]
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