His True Shocking Story...Filmed with Bullet Force!
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest "business," but moves inexorably toward his downfall and ignominious end.
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Grave, resolved, earnest and classical in form.
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- classical in formformally daring
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Cast
- Rod SteigerAl Capone
- Fay SpainMaureen Flannery
- James GregorySchaefler (narrator)
- Martin BalsamMac Keeley, reporter
- Nehemiah PersoffJohnny Torrio
- Murvyn VyeGeorge 'Bugs' Moran
- Robert GistDion O'Banion
- Lewis CharlesEarl Weiss
- Joe De SantisBig Jim Colosimo
- Sandy KenyonBones Corelli
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- Richard WilsonDirector
- Malvin WaldWriter
- Henry F. GreenbergWriter
- Lucien BallardDirector of Photography
- David RaksinOriginal Music Composer
- Walter HannemannEditor
- John H. BurrowsProducer
- Leonard J. AckermanProducer
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