Eliot Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, and the leader of a legendary team of law enforcement agents nicknamed The Untouchables.
Eliot Ness was born April 19, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the youngest of five siblings born to Norwegian immigrants, Peter and Emma Ness. Ness attended Christian Fenger High School in Chicago. He was educated at the University of Chicago, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, graduating in 1925 with a degree in economics. He began his career as an investigator for the Retail Credit Company of Atlanta. He was assigned to the Chicago territory, where he conducted background investigations for the purpose of credit information. He returned to the University to take a course in criminology, eventually earning a Master's Degree in the field.
In 1926, Ness' brother-in-law, Alexander Jamie, an agent of the Bureau of Investigation (which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935), influenced Ness to enter law enforcement. He joined the U.S. Treasury Department in 1927, working with the 300-strong Bureau of Prohibition, in Chicago.
Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947) was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate. The Chicago Outfit, which subsequently became known as the "Capones", was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and other illegal activities such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931.
Born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City to Italian immigrants, Capone became involved with gang activity at a young age after being expelled from school at age 14. In his early twenties, he moved to Chicago to take advantage of a new opportunity to make money smuggling illegal alcoholic beverages into the city during Prohibition. He also engaged in various other criminal activities, including bribery of government figures and prostitution. Despite his illegitimate occupation, Capone became a highly visible public figure. He made donations to various charitable endeavors using the money he made from his activities, and was viewed by many to be a "modern-day Robin Hood".
Robert Stack (January 13, 1919 – May 14, 2003) was a multilingual American actor and television host. In addition to acting in more than 40 feature films, he starred in the 1959–63 television series The Untouchables, and later hosted Unsolved Mysteries.
Robert Stack was born Charles Langford Modini Stack in Los Angeles, California, but his first name (selected by his mother) was changed to Robert by his father. He spent his early childhood growing up in Europe. He became fluent in French and Italian at an early age, but he did not learn English until returning to Los Angeles. Stack's parents divorced when he was a year old, and he was raised by his mother, Mary Elizabeth (née Wood). His father, James Langford Stack, a wealthy advertising agency owner, died when Stack was nine. He always spoke of his mother with the greatest respect and love. When he collaborated with Mark Evans on his autobiography, Straight Shooting, he included a picture of him and his mother. He captioned it, "Me and my best girl." His grandfather was an opera singer named Charles Wood, who went by the name "Modini".
Plot
Three real-life heroes, who battled organized crime between the two world wars, are the subject of this three-part documentary, complete with interviews and reenactments. Part one looks at Eliot Ness, the incorruptible Prohibition agent who worked to bring down Al Capone but remained obscure until Ness's memoir became the basis for a popular TV series, which inflated his role in bringing down the Chicago mobster. Part two examines Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent whose tireless efforts to capture John Dillinger ended in front of the Biograph theater in Chicago. Acclaim for Purvis faded as the jealous J. Edgar Hoover did what he could to erase the agent from public memory. Part three chronicles the career of Thomas Dewey, best known now as the Presidential candidate who lost to the dark horse, Harry Truman. But Dewey's great accomplishment was as the New York district attorney who brought down the Sicilian mobster, Lucky Luciano, by successfully prosecuting him for heading a prostitution racket. Whether Luciano really ran that racket is another story.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, alcoholic, ambition, apparent-suicide, april-fool's-day, archenemy, arkansas, bail-bondsman
[first lines]::[segment: "Eliot Ness"]::Narrator: He was the first untouchable, the Prohibition agent who cleaned up Chicago and brought down Al Capone. He became a legend. But does he owe his name to history or Hollywood? Who was the real Eliot Ness?
[last lines]::[segment: "Eliot Ness"]::Narrator: Eliot Ness wasn't the man who got Capone, but the image of the untouchable, a fearless and incorruptible agent, helps to ease our memory of the corrupt Prohibition years. In our timeless search for heroes, Eliot Ness still answers that call.
[first lines]::[segment: "Melvin Purvis"]::Narrator: In a desperate age when bank robbers were called Robin Hoods, he made the lawman the hero. The ace G-man, he lead the hunt for Public Enemy Number One, John Dillinger. In reward, he was hounded to his grave and written out of history. Who was the real Melvin Purvis?
[last lines]::[segment: "Melvin Purvis"]::Alston Purvis: There was a need for a hero - of a hero that represented the other side, other values. And my father provided that hero. He was a hero.
[first lines]::[segment: "Thomas Dewey"]::Narrator: In a city where everyone was for sale, he couldn't be bought. He took on the racketeers and risked his life to put mafia kingpin Lucky Luciano behind bars. His victory took him to the steps of the White House, but now he's forgotten. Who was the real Thomas Dewey?
[last lines]::[segment: "Thomas Dewey"]::Narrator: In the corrupt years between the wars, it looked like America would never win its war on organized crime. But in his defeat of Lucky Luciano, Thomas Dewey won a pioneering victory. The war on crime is never-ending, but the untouchable Thomas Dewey, one of a new breed of incorruptible lawmen, showed America how to fight and win.
Plot
Three real-life heroes, who battled organized crime between the two world wars, are the subject of this three-part documentary, complete with interviews and reenactments. Part one looks at Eliot Ness, the incorruptible Prohibition agent who worked to bring down Al Capone but remained obscure until Ness's memoir became the basis for a popular TV series, which inflated his role in bringing down the Chicago mobster. Part two examines Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent whose tireless efforts to capture John Dillinger ended in front of the Biograph theater in Chicago. Acclaim for Purvis faded as the jealous J. Edgar Hoover did what he could to erase the agent from public memory. Part three chronicles the career of Thomas Dewey, best known now as the Presidential candidate who lost to the dark horse, Harry Truman. But Dewey's great accomplishment was as the New York district attorney who brought down the Sicilian mobster, Lucky Luciano, by successfully prosecuting him for heading a prostitution racket. Whether Luciano really ran that racket is another story.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, alcoholic, ambition, apparent-suicide, april-fool's-day, archenemy, arkansas, bail-bondsman
[first lines]::[segment: "Eliot Ness"]::Narrator: He was the first untouchable, the Prohibition agent who cleaned up Chicago and brought down Al Capone. He became a legend. But does he owe his name to history or Hollywood? Who was the real Eliot Ness?
[last lines]::[segment: "Eliot Ness"]::Narrator: Eliot Ness wasn't the man who got Capone, but the image of the untouchable, a fearless and incorruptible agent, helps to ease our memory of the corrupt Prohibition years. In our timeless search for heroes, Eliot Ness still answers that call.
[first lines]::[segment: "Melvin Purvis"]::Narrator: In a desperate age when bank robbers were called Robin Hoods, he made the lawman the hero. The ace G-man, he lead the hunt for Public Enemy Number One, John Dillinger. In reward, he was hounded to his grave and written out of history. Who was the real Melvin Purvis?
[last lines]::[segment: "Melvin Purvis"]::Alston Purvis: There was a need for a hero - of a hero that represented the other side, other values. And my father provided that hero. He was a hero.
[first lines]::[segment: "Thomas Dewey"]::Narrator: In a city where everyone was for sale, he couldn't be bought. He took on the racketeers and risked his life to put mafia kingpin Lucky Luciano behind bars. His victory took him to the steps of the White House, but now he's forgotten. Who was the real Thomas Dewey?
[last lines]::[segment: "Thomas Dewey"]::Narrator: In the corrupt years between the wars, it looked like America would never win its war on organized crime. But in his defeat of Lucky Luciano, Thomas Dewey won a pioneering victory. The war on crime is never-ending, but the untouchable Thomas Dewey, one of a new breed of incorruptible lawmen, showed America how to fight and win.
Plot
Al Capone's been convicted of tax evasion, but the law states that he can only be confined to a regular jail cell. And from there, he still runs his criminal empire. Michael Rourke, a government agent, who is aware of this, seeks to have him transfered to the newly open maximum security prison, Alcatraz, but nobody believes that this is necessary.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, fbi-chief, federal-agent, gangster, organized-crime, revenge, scarface, sequel, u.s.-treasury-agent
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Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein's _The Battleship Potemkin_.
Keywords: 1930s, accountant, action-hero, alcohol, alley-fight, assault-rifle, baby, baby-carriage, bar, baseball-bat
The Chicago Dream is that big
AL CAPONE. He ruled Chicago with absolute power. No one could touch him. No one could stop him. - Until Eliot Ness and a small force of men swore they'd bring him down.
What are you prepared to do?
Never stop fighting till the fight is done
Judge: [after Ness has discovered Capone bribed the jury to acquit him] Bailiff, I want you to go next door to Judge Hawton's court, where they've just begun hearing a divorce action. I want you to bring that jury in here, and take this jury to his court. Bailiff, are those instructions clear?::Bailiff: [puzzled] Yes, sir, they're... clear...::Capone: [to his attorney] What's he talking about? What is it?::Judge: Bailiff, I want you to switch the juries.::Bailiff: Yes sir.::Defense Attorney: Your honor, I object!::Judge: Overruled.
Capone: I want you to get this fuck where he breathes! I want you to find this nancy-boy Eliot Ness, I want him DEAD! I want his family DEAD! I want his house burned to the GROUND! I wanna go there in the middle of the night and I wanna PISS ON HIS ASHES!
Malone: You just fulfilled the first rule of law enforcement: make sure when your shift is over you go home alive. Here endeth the lesson.
Malone: Don't wait for it to happen. Don't even want it to happen. Just watch what does happen.
Ness: I wanna hurt the man, Malone. You hear me? I wanna start taking the battle to him. I wanna hurt Capone!
Malone: Why do you want to be a police officer?::Williamson: To protect the... people and the... p...::Malone: I'm not looking for the textbook answer. Why do you want to join the force.::Williamson: The force?::Malone: Yeah, why do you want to join the force.::Williamson: Because... I...::Malone: Yeah?::Williamson: ...think I could help.::Malone: You think you could help.::Williamson: ...with the force.::Malone: Thank you very much, you've been most helpful. [Williamson leaves] [to Ness] There goes the next chief of police.
Malone: Why do you want to join the force?::George Stone: To protect the property and citizenry of...::Malone: Ah, don't waste my time with that bullshit. Where you from, Stone?::George Stone: I'm from the south-side.::Malone: Stone. George Stone. That's your name? What's your real name?::George Stone: That is my real name.::Malone: Nah. What was it before you changed it?::George Stone: Giuseppe Petri.::Malone: Ah, I knew it. That's all you need, one thieving wop on the team.::George Stone: Hey, what's that you say?::Malone: I said that you're a lying member of a no good race.::George Stone: [He cuffs Stone across the face. As he draws back his arm again, Stone presses a gun under his chin] Much better than you, you stinking Irish shit pig.::Malone: Oh, I like him.::Ness: [Ness looking a bit nervous and Malone smiling at Stone] Yeah I like him too.
Capone: You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.
Capone: I'm gonna tell you something. Somebody messes with me, I'm gonna mess with with him. Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand? Now, I have done nothing to harm these people but they are angered with me, so what do they do, doctor up some income tax, for which they have no case. To speak to me like me, no, to harass a peaceful man. I pray to god if I ever had a grievance I'd have a little more self respect. One more thing, you have an all out prize fight, you wait until the fight is over, one guy is left standing. And that's how you know who won.
Capone: People are gonna drink! You know that, I know that, we all know that, and all I do is act on that. And all this talk of bootlegging - what is bootlegging? On a boat, it's bootlegging. On Lake Shore Drive, it's hospitality. I'm a businessman!
Verse 1:
B E
Straight out of nowhere
And a little bit out of our minds
We were courting disaster
With one foot over the line
It was one for the show
And two for ol' shorty and me
We were the wild ones
D E B
We had this town up a tree
Chorus:
We were the wild ones
The ones they couldn't control
We were survivors
D E B
Good hearts - body and soul
We were the winners
'Cause we didn't know we could fail
We were the wild ones
D E B
And we had the world by the tail
Verse 2:
She was a lady
When a lady wasn't easy to be
Hangin' in limbo
She started hangin' with me
We were the music
'Cause we had a song we could sing
We were the wild ones
D E B
And we had the world on a string
Chorus.
We were the wild ones
D E B
And we had the world by the tail
we've got old news
wrapped up in old blues
we can't afford to call
no we don't know where we are
come on, we're dead on our feet but we're walking
well let me hear you now
we've been stripped down
hog-tied and found out
and thrown into the quiet
like sticks into a fire
come on, i'm sleeping in the street
cause it's so easy to dream but so hard to say goodnight
we've been toiling our tears hit the soil yeah
taking up a voice from a flower field of noise
come on, a dog from the past started barking
well let me hear you now
we've been stripped down
hog-tied and found out
thrown into the quiet
like sticks into a fire
come on, i'm sleeping in the street cause it's so easy to dream
De noite no meu carro
Me sinto tão só
Me olho no espelho
E até me dá dó
Vou tentar sair, encontrar você
E se não der, não vou nem querer saber
Eu sei que o meu problema
É fácil pra um qualquer resolver
O meu espelho não mente
Eu sei como estou
Vou fazer uma besteira
Eu sei como eu sou
Ontem à noite eu esperei você
Mas hoje já não vou nem querer saber
Se não te encontro, vou com outro
Eu quero ter prazer
Ontem à noite você me deixou na mão
Por isso hoje estou tão tensa
Estou com tensão
Já não dá mais pra segurar
Estou com tensão
Você me deixa louca
Nem olha pra mim
Eu quero tanto você
Nunca estive assim
Ontem à noite
Você me abandonou
Esperei tanto e você não pintou
Fiquei tão tensa
Tão nervosa, porque você me magoou
so sick of hearing this is old news im insincere? how the
fuck would you know ? you dont havea fucking clue at all
you gave up you dropped out whats the point of talking
shit on your past fucking poser, i dont owe you shit you
lost it and its too late to come back i take pride in
Every day you do the best you can
To live the life of an honest man
To show them that it means that much to you
Like our band
You can't understand
They will get mad, he will disagree
She will walk off without me
And I still can't relate to anything
And everything I ever do
Will get written down and screamed back at you
Like if I write it down (if I write it down)
It's gonna make it true
Everything I ever do
Will get written down and screamed back at you
Like if I write it down (if I write it down)
It's gonna make it true
If everything you say is right
Then why am I not listening to anything, anything you say
And if my life is an open book
Written down by anyone who took
A little more of my self respect
Last chapter, my self respect
And everything I ever do
Will get written down and screamed back at you
Like if I write it down (if I write it down)
It's gonna make it true
Everything I ever do
Will get written down and screamed back at you
Like if I write it down (if I write it down)
It's gonna make it true
I'm no good with metaphors, but I will be soon
I'm no good with metaphors, but I will be soon
And now I'm swimming with uncertainty
I'm doing just the best I can
All I have is the best I can
And everything I ever do
Will get written down and screamed back at you
Like if I write it down (if I write it down)
It's gonna make it true
Well if I write it down
It's gonna make it
If I write it down
It doesn't have to make it