While Nitti weighs whether or not to kill Ness, George Ritchie (Joe Mantell) approaches Ness with an offer to join the squad in an attempt to impress his wife, burlesque dancer Brandy LaFrance (Barbara Nichols), who also happens to be the niece of Capone treasurer Jake Guzik.
Upon locating another brewery, the truck blasts through the doors with ease and Ness takes an ax to a beer vat in victory. The squad outfits a confiscated 5-ton truck with a shield to easily breach brewery doors and the hunt for additional Capone operations picks up. Moments later, Rossman arrives with the news that Giannini managed to escape town after giving up the brewery, but had been assassinated by a shotgun blast to the head. Ness and his men storm the brewery, only to be confronted with steel reinforced doors, giving the valuable brewers time to escape. Ness immediately turns the money over to the Federal District Attorney Beecher Asbury and proceeds to raid six more Capone distilleries.Ī desperate Giannini begs Ness to stop the raids, to which Ness threatens him with arrest unless Giannini gives up the location of a Capone brewery, which represents a bigger prize for Ness. As they pushing for a payoff of a grand a week, one of Nitti’s men pulls a knife on Ness. During the meeting, Ness and Fuselli bluff Giannini for more money than the mob is offering, forcing Giannini to call in enforcer Frank Nitti (Bruce Gordon).
Sensing the squad is nothing more than talk, Frank Nitti and a corrupt Alderman layout extra dough among their police protection to make sure it stays that way.Īfter the raid, Capone thug Johnny Giannini arrives to strike a deal with Ness and his men. Ness hand selects seven men: LaMarr Kane, Eric Hansen, Martin Flaherty, Jack Rossman, William Youngfellow, Tom Kopka, and Joe Fuselli, a reformed ex-convict. This night, the night of June 17th, 1929, the gang was to encounter its chief adversary: a Prohibition agent named Eliot Ness.”įollowing a failed raid on the Club Montmartre, Eliot Ness (Robert Stack) realizes that a way to combat Capone’s corruption of law enforcement officials is to assemble a special squad group of Federal agents from around the country that are reliable, courageous, dedicated, and honest. Social headquarters of the mob was the Cafe Montmartre. Even now, while Al Capone served a short term for carrying a gun in Philadelphia, the organization functioned smoothly, helped by corrupt officials and a public that was indifferent. Through connivance with Al Capone, Chicago was wet. Starring Robert Stack, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Nichols, Pat Crowley Based on the novel by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley
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