Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life (2005)

Actors: Michael Cornelison (actor), Max Allan Collins (producer), Max Allan Collins (writer), Max Allan Collins (director), Phillip W. Dingeldein (editor),

Genres: Drama,

The Real Untouchables (2001)

Actors: James Woods (actor), J. Edgar Hoover (actor), Steve Longmuir (writer), Dominic Capone (producer), Dominic Capone (actor), Laura Orrico (actress), Kevin Lingle (actor), Barrie Bignold (composer), John Fothergill (director), Todd Milliner (actor), Tom Clarke Hill (actor), Tom Clarke Hill (actor), Bob Kaliebe (actor), Thomas E. Dewey (actor), Edmond G Coisson (actor),

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
Genres: Documentary, History,

Quotes:

[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.

The Real Untouchables (2001)

Actors: James Woods (actor), J. Edgar Hoover (actor), Steve Longmuir (writer), Dominic Capone (producer), Dominic Capone (actor), Laura Orrico (actress), Kevin Lingle (actor), Barrie Bignold (composer), John Fothergill (director), Todd Milliner (actor), Tom Clarke Hill (actor), Tom Clarke Hill (actor), Bob Kaliebe (actor), Thomas E. Dewey (actor), Edmond G Coisson (actor),

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
Genres: Documentary, History,

Quotes:

[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.

The Return of Eliot Ness (1991)

Actors: John 'Frenchie' Berger (miscellaneous crew), Louis Di Bianco (actor), Lee Holdridge (composer), Lisa Hartman (actress), Robert Stack (actor), Charles Durning (actor), Kay Hawtrey (actress), Timm Zemanek (actor), Ron Lea (actor), J. Winston Carroll (actor), Michael Copeman (actor), Philip Bosco (actor), Keith Large (miscellaneous crew), Shelley A. Boylen (miscellaneous crew), Doug Lennox (actor),

Genres: Crime, Drama,

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,

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!

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,