Eliot Ness vs. Al Capone

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2009 / 53min.

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Documentary

History

TV Movie

Synopsis

January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime underworld with brute force and corrupting many touchable individuals. Until the day the head of the Untouchables Brigade, Eliot Ness, entered the scene. Since then, a cruel battle between the two of them began, a battle that ended in trial, conviction, disease, insanity and death.

Directors

Actors

Al Capone

Eliot Ness

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