"The Untouchables"
One-Armed Bandits (1960)

Director:

Walter Grauman

Writers:

Oscar Fraley (book)
Eliot Ness (book)

TV Series:

"The Untouchables" (1959)

Original Air Date:

4 February 1960 (Season 1, Episode 17)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama

Plot:

A newly released convict is blackmailed into running a slot-machine racket. If he refuses, his daughter will learn of his existence and be scandalized. |

Plot Keywords:

Mafia | Police | Federal Agent | Organized Crime | US Treasury Agents

Cast

Robert Stack	...	Eliot Ness
Harry Guardino	...	Frank Odine
Larry Gates	...	Julian Glass
John Beradino	...	Augie Viale (as John Beradino)
Anthony George	...	Agent Cam Allison
Nicholas Georgiade	...	Agent Enrico Rossi
Abel Fernandez	...	Agent William Youngfellow
Theodore Marcuse	...	Paul Curtiz
Wolfe Barzell	...	Jake Brodowski
Steve London	...	Agent Jack Rossman
Penny Santon	...	Emily Brodowski
Paul Comi	...	George Colleoni
Ken Becker	...	Al Barberry
Kenneth Becker	...	Al Barberry (as Ken Becker)
Theora Bryant	...	Nurse

Runtime:

USA:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Desilu Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Company:

Desilu Productions

Bigger than Capone

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Augie Viale puts a slot machine in every Chicago nook and cranny, it's obligatory. Within a week, says Ness, his crime empire will outdo Capone's in wealth. The big boys downtown want to see results, Viale's method is to blackmail a former IRA gunman turned New York rumrunner, now out of prison, a man to whom Ness owes a favor.

Viale's new manager has a daughter in society, engaged to be married and under the impression her father is a late war hero.

Slot machines aren't a Federal rap, a harassed shop-owner clues Ness to a bootleg warehouse. Agent Youngblood, undercover as a waiter in Viale's establishment (one of the judges' and senators' sons among the clientele is the bridegroom), alerts Ness to a shipment of slot machines from out-of-state, "FEDS STOP SLOTS" is the headline.

Ness flushes out Viale with a press conference, the manager is angrily ordered to kill him. Failing at this, the would-be assassin is Tommy-gunned on the street, and staggers from his hospital bed to gun down Viale and see his daughter married.

The image of a slot machine forced onto the counter of a tiny shop is the centerpiece.