***SPOILERS*** Lee Marvin as big brother Mike Brannon is out to clean up the Tough Tony Lamberto, Frank DeKova, Mob and is using his brothers to get the job done for him. Having been suspended from the Chicago police department by putting one of Though Tony's boys into the hospital with a fractured skull Big Mike decides to go it in his own together with his brothers to do the job that the Chicago police is incapable of doing: Put an end to the Lamberdo mob once and for all. Or so Big Mike want's us to think. In fact Big Mike is far more interested in kidnapping Though Tony and holding him hostage for $150,000.00 that he can use, now without him any means of support, to make himself and his brothers independently wealthy.
It's brother Mike's resorting to violence as well as murder that get's his sensitive younger brother Denny, Ray Thinnes, to have second thoughts about his motives and soon decides to quit his war on crime before he ends up a victim of it. The war on crime conducted by Big Mike soon turns out to be as criminal as any of the hoods he's targeting. Kidnapping Lomberto soon backfires on Big Mike in that it brings the Feds or Unouchables lead by the at one point shirtless and brief less, he only had a towel wrapped around his midsection, US Government Agent Eliot Ness, Robert Stack, into the case. Ness now working to rescue Lomberto, whom he's pressing tax evasion charges against, has Big Mike and, after the big shoot-out, his only brother left alive Keir, James Caan, trapped in the Chicago sewer system like a bunch of cornered rats where their ready to be smoked out by Ness' Feds.
****SPOILERS*** One of the more violent "Untouchable" episodes with the body count more like that of an episode of "Combat" has Big Mike have it out with both the government agents as well as the Lamberto mob as he tries to end up going down in a blaze of glory when there's no way out for him. As things turned out Big Mike survived being killed in the shoot-out and left alive so he can end up taking a one way trip to state electric chair instead. It was Ness who made Big Mike's final end a happy, if you can call it that, one promising him that he's be buried along his now four dead brothers who were stupid enough to go alone with his crazy and hair brain plan.
P.S Check out former Superman Lois Lane Phillis Coates as Tough Tony's #1 squeeze former show girl Angela Carney who was crippled in a bombing at the Chicago nightclub she worked at that was meant for him.
It's brother Mike's resorting to violence as well as murder that get's his sensitive younger brother Denny, Ray Thinnes, to have second thoughts about his motives and soon decides to quit his war on crime before he ends up a victim of it. The war on crime conducted by Big Mike soon turns out to be as criminal as any of the hoods he's targeting. Kidnapping Lomberto soon backfires on Big Mike in that it brings the Feds or Unouchables lead by the at one point shirtless and brief less, he only had a towel wrapped around his midsection, US Government Agent Eliot Ness, Robert Stack, into the case. Ness now working to rescue Lomberto, whom he's pressing tax evasion charges against, has Big Mike and, after the big shoot-out, his only brother left alive Keir, James Caan, trapped in the Chicago sewer system like a bunch of cornered rats where their ready to be smoked out by Ness' Feds.
****SPOILERS*** One of the more violent "Untouchable" episodes with the body count more like that of an episode of "Combat" has Big Mike have it out with both the government agents as well as the Lamberto mob as he tries to end up going down in a blaze of glory when there's no way out for him. As things turned out Big Mike survived being killed in the shoot-out and left alive so he can end up taking a one way trip to state electric chair instead. It was Ness who made Big Mike's final end a happy, if you can call it that, one promising him that he's be buried along his now four dead brothers who were stupid enough to go alone with his crazy and hair brain plan.
P.S Check out former Superman Lois Lane Phillis Coates as Tough Tony's #1 squeeze former show girl Angela Carney who was crippled in a bombing at the Chicago nightclub she worked at that was meant for him.