Jack 'Legs' Diamond (20 Oct. 1960)

Working in the New York area, Eliot Ness and his men are trying to trace an incoming shipment of narcotics. Some years before, mobster and nightclub owner Jack "Legs" Diamond spent time in ... See full summary »

Director:

John Peyser

Writers:

Eliot Ness (book), Oscar Fraley (book),

Stars:

Robert Stack, Steven Hill, Norma Crane

Cast

Episode cast overview:
Robert Stack	...	Eliot Ness
Steven Hill	...	Jack 'Legs' Diamond
Norma Crane	...	Alice Diamond
Suzanne Storrs	...	Dawn Dolan
Paul Picerni	...	Agent Lee Hobson
Nicholas Georgiade	...	Agent Enrico Rossi
Abel Fernandez	...	Agent William Youngfellow
Peter Whitney	...	Bill Swinney
Lawrence Dobkin	...	Dutch Schultz / Arthur Flegenheimer
Oscar Beregi Jr.	...	Oscar Benjamin (as Oscar Beregei)
Robert Carricart	...	Lucky Luciano
Lee Patrick	...	Lelah Dolan
Antony Carbone	...	Dimitrious Spiros (as Tony Carbone)
Ted Berger	...	Moxie Harris
Walter Winchell	...	Narrator (voice)

Storyline

Working in the New York area, Eliot Ness and his men are trying to trace an incoming shipment of narcotics. Some years before, mobster and nightclub owner Jack "Legs" Diamond spent time in Europe and he made a deal with a Greek crime family to buy $5 million worth of narcotics. Diamond is flamboyant and loves publicity but his partners, Lucky Luciano and Dutch Schultz, want him to lay low for a while and they send him off to his cabin in the Catskills. When Diamond learns that they have gone ahead with the drug deal without informing him, he assumes they're trying to cut him out of the deal and goes after the drugs himself.

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

20 October 1960 (USA)

Filming Locations:

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

Company Credits

Production Co:

Desilu Productions, Langford Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

In front of the Hotsey Totsey Club, Diamond's would-be assassin fires three shots from a double-barrel shotgun without having had time to reload.

User Reviews

Excellent Show With Surprise Uncredited Cameo At End

This was a great episode highlighting several famous gangsters with the lead going to Steven as Jack "Legs" Diamond.

We witness the problems "Legs" had not just with the law but with his fellow crooks. It seems the latter aren't too happy with Diamond because he's a publicity hound and he's drawing too much attention to all of them. That could screw up the latest "project," a five-million-dollar drug smuggling caper from Greece. $5 million was an incredible amount back in 1931. Thus, they order him out of New York City and up to the Catskills to cool his heels.

Legs gets antsy, especially with his cute mistress still back in New York, and trying to put up with his alcoholic wife, who he can't stand.

All of these people wind up doing him in, and it's really interesting to see.

Note: Right near the end of the story, a young bellhop comes up to Diamond's room to deliver a message....and it's actor Ryan O'Neal. I recognized him immediately....and he was only 19 in his second small role on screen Now he's a 70-year-old and a famous actor.