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Robert De Niro in The Untouchables (Image: PARAMOUNT PICTURES) “I would've liked to have seen more of him, but alas, what we got is better than nothing. The film masterfully captures the tension ...
Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables ...
However, despite what you may have gathered from hit movies like 1987’s The Untouchables, starring Kevin Costner as Ness and Robert De Niro as Capone, it was in fact a woman – Mabel Walker ...
Al Capone's Patek Philippe pocket watch will hit the auction block at Sotheby’s in June, carrying a pre-sale estimate of $80,000-$160,000. The watch was passed down through generations of the ...
The rat-a-tat tommy-gun tale of its author, Eliot Ness, and his incorruptible men in the Prohibition Bureau fighting Chicago gangster Al Capone proved to be a hard-boiled gem.
American Stories profiles Al Capone, the Prohibition-era face of organized crime. Hailed as an anti-hero, feared as a cold-blooded crime lord, Al Capone’s bootlegging exploits, celebrity and ...
All episodes of The Untouchables TV seriesThe brutal murder of an old friend and his own son's serious illness force Al Capone to re-evaluate his life of crime. While his son lies ill with a ...
Al Capone met Mae Josephine Coughlin on the streets of New York City when he was still figuring out his path in the world. A respectable Irish girl, she seemed an odd choice for the seedy, Italian ...
Born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Neapolitan immigrants, Alphonse Gabriel Capone came into contact with organised crime at an early age. As a teenager, he became a member of the "Five ...