Frank Nitti

Public Enemies (2009)

Actors: Peter Gerety (actor), Don Kress (actor), Stephen Dorff (actor), Shannon Edwards (actor), Stephen Graham (actor), Don Harvey (actor), Matt Craven (actor), Shannon Edwards (actor), Christian Bale (actor), Johnny Depp (actor), Spencer Garrett (actor), Billy Crudup (actor), Ewan Bourne (actor), Giovanni Ribisi (actor), Stephen Lang (actor),

Plot: This is the story of the last few years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger. He loved what he did and could imagine little else that would make him happier. Living openly in 1930s Chicago, he had the run of the city with little fear of reprisals from the authorities. It's there that he meets Billie Frechette with whom he falls deeply in love. In parallel we meet Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who would eventually track Dillinger down. The FBI was is in its early days and Director J. Edgar Hoover was keen to promote the clean cut image that so dominated the organization through his lifetime. Purvis realizes that if he is going to get Dillinger, he will have to use street tactics and imports appropriate men with police training. Dillinger is eventually betrayed by an acquaintance who tells the authorities just where to find him on a given night.

Keywords: 1930s, african-american, airplane, alleyway, alvin-karpis, ambush, apartment, apple-orchard, arm-wound, arrest
Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History,
Taglines: America's Most Wanted

Quotes:

John Dillinger: [nodding at money left by a bank teller in front of his booth] You can put it away. Not here for your money. Here for the bank's money.

Billie Frechette: What do you want?::John Dillinger: Everything. Right now.

John Dillinger: Bye-bye, blackbird.

Melvin Purvis: What keeps you up nights, Mr. Dillinger?::John Dillinger: Coffee.

John Dillinger: We're having too good a time today. We ain't thinking about tomorrow.

John Dillinger: You wanna know if we're armed? We're armed.

John Dillinger: Well if it isn't the man who shot Pretty-Boy Floyd. Good thing 'cause he sure wasn't Whiz-Kid Floyd.

John Dillinger: [approaching group of police officers] What's the score?

[last lines]::Billie Frechette: They say you're the man who shot him.::Charles Winstead: That's right. One of 'em.::Billie Frechette: So why are you coming here to see me? To see the damage you done?::Charles Winstead: No. I came here because he asked me to. When he went down, he said somethin'. I put my ear next to his mouth, and what I think he said was this. He said, 'Tell Billie for me: Bye bye, Blackbird.'::[Billie starts to cry as Winstead gets up to leave]

Last Title Card: Melvin Purvis quit the FBI a year later and died by his own hand in 1960. Billie Frechette was released in 1936 and lived the rest of her life in Wisconsin.

Road to Perdition (2002)

Actors: Richard D. Zanuck (producer), Thomas Newman (composer), Paul Newman (actor), Jennifer Jason Leigh (actress), Walter F. Parkes (producer), Sam Mendes (producer), Anthony LaPaglia (actor), Jude Law (actor), Daniel Craig (actor), Stanley Tucci (actor), Ciarán Hinds (actor), Dylan Baker (actor), Tom Hanks (actor), Sam Mendes (director), Albert Wolsky (costume designer),

Plot: Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure. However after his son is witness to a killing he has done Mike Sullivan finds him self on the run trying to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him. Jude Law co stars as a hit man hired to kill Sullivan.

Keywords: 1930s, accountant, anti-hero, apology, assassin, bank-robbery, based-on-comic, based-on-comic-book, based-on-graphic-novel, based-on-novel
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: Pray for Michael Sullivan Every father is a hero to his son. Every son holds the future for his father. The innocence of a son is surpassed only by the father's will to save it.

Quotes:

Michael Sullivan: He murdered Annie and Peter!::John Rooney: There are only murderers in this room! Michael! Open your eyes! This is the life we chose, the life we lead. And there is only one guarantee: none of us will see heaven.::Michael Sullivan: Michael could.::John Rooney: Then do everything that you can to see that that happens.

[Maguire has pulled out a camera]::Michael Sullivan: Is that, uh... your profession or... your pleasure?::Maguire: Both, I guess. To be paid to do what you love... ain't that the dream?

Michael Sullivan, Jr.: I couldn't do it.::Michael Sullivan: I know.

Maguire: I shoot the dead. Dead bodies, that is. I don't kill them.

John Rooney: Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

Maguire: Smile.

[last lines]::Michael Sullivan, Jr.: I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun. People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that, in those six weeks on the road in the winter of 1931. When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them... he was my father.

Connor Rooney: I can look after myself.::Frank Nitti: No, you can't! This is the point. You're a big baby who doesn't know his thumb from his dick!

John Rooney: What men do after work is what made us rich. No need to screw them at work as well.

[after seeing his father kill someone]::Michael Sullivan, Jr.: Does Mama know?::Michael Sullivan: Your mother knows I love Mr. Rooney. When we had nothing, he gave us a home... a life... and we owe him.

The Revenge of Al Capone (1989)

Actors: Troy Evans (actor), Scott Paulin (actor), Charles Haid (actor), Keith Carradine (actor), Phill Norman (miscellaneous crew), Kirk Thornton (actor), Ron Gilbert (actor), Charles Hallahan (actor), Craig Safan (composer), James Handy (actor), Jordan Charney (actor), Tony Amendola (actor), Alan Rosenberg (actor), Michael Pressman (director), Michael Pressman (actor),

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
Genres: Drama,

Frank Nitti: The Enforcer (1988)

Actors: Daniel T. Cahn (editor), Bruce Kirby (actor), Helen Kelly (actress), Mike Starr (actor), Daniel T. Cahn (producer), John Shepherd (actor), Michael Moriarty (actor), Anthony LaPaglia (actor), Bruno Kirby (actor), Hank Azaria (actor), Alan Blumenfeld (actor), M.C. Gainey (actor), Louis Guss (actor), Clayton Landey (actor), Ronald H. Gilbert (producer),

Genres: Crime, Drama,

Quotes:

Anna: My husband left me because I couldn't give him any children. And if we marry, I can't give you any children either, Frank.::Frank Nitti: [pulls her even closer to him] Then we won't have children.

The Untouchables (1987)

Actors: Chelcie Ross (actor), Charles Martin Smith (actor), Robert Minkoff (actor), Clifton James (actor), Sean Connery (actor), Robert De Niro (actor), Andy Garcia (actor), Andy Garcia (actor), Billy Drago (actor), Kevin Costner (actor), Don Harvey (actor), Mike Bacarella (actor), Richard Bradford (actor), David Mamet (writer), Patricia Clarkson (actress),

Plot: 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
Genres: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller,
Taglines: 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

Quotes:

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!

Capone (1975)

Actors: Sylvester Stallone (actor), Susan Blakely (actress), Peter Maloney (actor), Martin Kove (actor), Vincent Barbi (actor), Dick Miller (actor), Ben Gazzara (actor), George Chandler (actor), Carmen Argenziano (actor), John Howard (actor), Harry Guardino (actor), John Cassavetes (actor), Royal Dano (actor), Roger Corman (producer), Carmen Filpi (actor),

Plot: The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years. Unusually, briefly covering the years after Capone was imprisoned.

Keywords: 1930s, ambush, arrest, bare-breasts, blonde, blood, blood-spatter, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, brawl, brutality
Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama,
Taglines: From Underworld To Empire The man who made the twenties roar! Now, after 45 years, his true story can be told!

Quotes:

Capone: There should be a law against women drinking.::Crawford: Well, I think there is.

Hymie Weiss: You're a dead man, Capone.

Capone: I'll crap on your grave, Weiss.

Johnny Torrio: Use Bribe Instead of Bullets. We are Business men not the US Marines.

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)

Actors: Paul Frees (actor), John Agar (actor), Jack Nicholson (actor), Dick Miller (actor), Reed Hadley (actor), Richard Bakalyan (actor), Ralph Meeker (actor), Russ Conway (actor), Leo Gordon (actor), Milton Frome (actor), Joseph Campanella (actor), Bruce Dern (actor), Charles Dierkop (actor), Alex Rocco (actor), Jason Robards (actor),

Plot: Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.

Keywords: 1930s, ambush, bootlegger, bootlegging, brawl, chicago-illinois, cold-blooded-killer, crime-boss, cult-film, drive-by-shooting
Genres: Crime, Drama, History,

Quotes:

Capone: Wanna know something Jack? I like a guy who can use his head for something beside a hatrack!

Interrogator: [to Frank Gusenberg after the shooting] I've got to tell you Frank, you're not going to make it. Want me to call a preacher?

Bartender: [nervously] If you don't like the beer, mister, you don't have to pay for it.::Peter Gusenberg: Well now, ain't you the cat's pajamas!

Reporter: Y'know some are sayin' that it really was the cops who shot those men.::Bugs Moran: You must be new to this town, mister. Only Al Capone kills like that.

Adam Heyer: Hello, boys. Something I can do for you?::Gangster dressed as a cop: Yes, you can shut up!

Alcatraz Express (1960)

Actors: Neville Brand (actor), Russ Conway (actor), John Hoyt (actor), Charles Lane (actor), Gavin MacLeod (actor), Gregg Palmer (actor), Paul Picerni (actor), William Schallert (actor), Robert F. Simon (actor), Robert Stack (actor), James Westerfield (actor), Frank Wilcox (actor), Nelson Riddle (composer), Eddie Firestone (actor), Lewis Charles (actor),

Genres: Crime, Drama,

The Gun of Zangara (1960)

Actors: Lee Van Cleef (actor), Addison Richards (actor), Robert Stack (actor), Sterling Holloway (actor), George N. Neise (actor), John Daheim (actor), Robert Anderson (actor), Paul Frees (actor), Paul Frees (actor), Frankie Darro (actor), Richard Deacon (actor), Claude Akins (actor), Frank DeKova (actor), Percy Helton (actor), Charles Watts (actor),

Genres: Crime, Drama,

The Scarface Mob (1959)

Actors: Peter Leeds (actor), George J. Lewis (actor), John Hoyt (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Richard Benedict (actor), Francis De Sales (actor), Robert Anderson (actor), Frank DeKova (actor), Paul Dubov (actor), Neville Brand (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), Ben Frommer (actor), Wally Cassell (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), Peter Mamakos (actor),

Plot: Special Agent Eliot Ness (Robert Stack) forms The Untouchables, an elite squad of incorruptible lawmen, in order to bring down underworld kingpin Al Capone. First televised as a two-part episode of the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse in April 1959, The Untouchables was later combined into one seamless version for movie theaters titled "The Scarface Mob." Here, accompanying this movie version are the Desi Arnaz and Walter Winchell introductions that preceded parts one and two of the original Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse broadcast.

Keywords: based-on-book, detective, federal-agent, g-men, mafia, neo-noir, police-shootout, sequel, u.s.-treasury-agent
Genres: Crime, Drama,

Quotes:

Betty Anderson: [Eliot Ness arrives after two Capone men pay his Fiance a visit] Eliot what kind men are they?::Eliot Ness: They are warped, sadistic, rotten little cowards!