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Season Two Episode Guide (1960 - 1961) Ratings for The Untouchables soared in its Second Season. Desilu had perfected the formula after a successful but thematically uneven first year. After previously tipping over desks at the FBI and incensing the Mafia, The Untouchables returned in October 1960 with the outstanding The Rusty Heller Story.
Malone : Not now Eliot, not now. [Malone grabs Ness] Ness : [to his men while he rides on a snow plow truck] All right now, let's do some good! Malone : [On a liquor raid. With his hand on the door] If you walk through this door now, you're walking into a world of trouble.
The Untouchables is a 1987 film based on the 1959 ABC television series, and follows Eliot Ness's autobiographical account of his efforts to bring Italian-American gangster Al Capone to justice during the Prohibition era. It was directed by Brian De Palma and adapted by David Mamet, and starred Kevin Costner as Ness, Sean Connery as Irish-American beat cop Jim Malone, and Robert De Niro as ...
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Then a 26-year-old agent, Eliot Ness, began a private war against the most notorious criminal genius who ever lived. This is the thrilling true story of how he did it, with a small group of hand-picked men who proved themselves beyond bribery or bullets-the story that inspired a landmark television series and now a major motion picture.
May 16, 2017 · After Ness died, his book, The Untouchables, was published and became a hit (selling 1.5 million copies), leading to the television series The Untouchables starring Robert Stack as Ness that ran from 1959 to 1963, and another lesser attempt at a television series in 1993.
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May 7, 2010 · The untouchables : the real story by Ness, Eliot; Fraley, Oscar, 1914-Publication date 1987 Topics Capone, Al, 1899-1947, Crime and criminals, Prohibition Publisher
TIL that Eliot Ness, the Prohibition agent depicted heroically bringing down Al Capone in "The Untouchables" book/TV series/movie, afterward became a heavy drinker who spent free time in a local bar telling stories about being a Prohibition agent
