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The Untouchables (1959): Chicago, February 1932. Crime has been spreading all over, from the dark alleys of Cicero to the social atmosphere of the Gold Coast. Crooked attorney Paul Curtiz is attending a party being hosted by gangster overlord Augie Viale, king of the southside of Chicago. At the affair, Viale is openly paying off this guests with cash-- police commissioners, judges, lawyers, and businessmen; all of them ready to hand Chicago to Viale on a silver platter. There are also lots of women at these parties. However, Eliot Ness has the place under surveillance--one of his Untouchables, agent William Youngfellow, is working there as a waiter. The next day, he reports to Ness and his men. Viale's newest racket will be slot machines, One-Armed Bandits. While they are only nickel slots, it adds up-- to $15-million a year in St. Louis for the underworld; it would be twice as much in Chicago. Meanwhile, Frank O'Dean is just being released from the Illinois State Pen in Joliet, after doing 7 years, 6 months of a 10-year sentence. Ness meets with him; O'Dean is a hood with a difference-- that night, almost 8 years ago, during a raid, he had a bead on Ness, but didn't shoot him; Ness sent him up the river. Later, O'Dean is met by 2 of Viale's boys, O'Dean says he's through with the rackets. Then disbarred lawyer Julian Glass gives O'Dean a place to stay, in a crummy hotel; Glass tells him his daughter (who thinks her father died as a war hero in WWI) is all grown up now, and getting married to a nice young man named Stuart Plummer. Frank O'Dean never wants her to find out her old man was a jailbird. March 1932. Agent Youngfellow alerts Ness that Viale is expecting the slot machines, being delivered by a big moving van. So Ness and his men wait by the state line to intercept it. In Ness' car, Cam Allison says that Floyd Gibbons talked about Viale in his radio broadcast.* Ness quips, "Someday they're gonna put radios in cars, and when they do I'll be the first to buy one."** The road block stops the van; the gangsters driving the van shoot it out with Ness, and are killed. There are slot machines in back. Due to this setback, Paul Curtiz has a meet with Viale in his office, and tells him to get O'Dean to run the operation. Viale needs something to blackmail O'Dean with; he has his boys rough up Julian Glass until he spills the beans about the daughter. When O'Dean is forced to attend Viale's next party, Viale tells him that one of the women there is his daughter, Elinor Larkins; her fiance is a friend of a powerful judge. Viale rubs it in, "What if they found out her father was a jailbird?" O'Dean, without telling her who he is, warns her to leave. Blackmailed into working for Viale, O'Dean becomes the organizer of the operation-- truckload after truckload of slot machines flood Chicago and then Cook County. Ness is frustrated-- there is no federal law against slot machines. Even when he finds hundreds of them in small shops all over town, he's helpless; it only violates federal law when they cross states lines with them. Finally, Ness gets a break-- shopkeeper Jake Bradowski tells him the slot machines are all stored in a big warehouse on Trenton Street, along with bootleg booze. Now, Ness and his men can do a raid; booze is a violation of Prohibition's Volstead Act. Ness and his men use their giant armored truck, the one fitted with the huge metal wedge on front, to smash through the warehouse's large doors.*** There is a shootout, several crooks die, but most surrender. When Viale hears about it, he orders Frank O'Dean to rub out Ness. Armed with a gun, O'Dean goes to Ness' office late at night; Eliot is alone. Ness tells him that all hoods have is money and guns, and he talks of the value of God and country and family; Frank O'Dean had a wife and a kid, he can't kill Ness. Later, Julian Glass tells O'Dean that his daughter's wedding will be at 9:00 a.m., at St. Victor's in Wilmette (a town 17 miles north of Chicago). Meanwhile, Viale orders O'Dean rubbed out. On the sidewalk, O'Dean gets machine-gunned by Colleoni-- a drive-by in a speeding car. O'Dean is severely wounded; O'Dean and Ness return the fire and kill Colleoni. O'Dean is rushed to the hospital. Later that night though, in the hospital, O'Dean gets out of his deathbed; a nurse tells Ness that "he's a walking dead man." He's pretty lively for a dead man-- he goes to Viale and pumps 3 slugs into him. Ness gets home around 7:00 a.m., and finds the mortally-wounded O'Dean waiting for him. Ness cleans him up a bit, and takes O'Dean (still bleeding) to the church for his daughter's wedding; Frank O'Dean lives just long enough to see his daughter start her new married life, and then dies. Even though Frank O'Dean was a hood, his family meant the most to him-- in Ness' book, Frank O'Dean was better than most hoods. (synopsis by: kdh) --------------------------------- *[they mention Floyd Gibbons' radio show. This famous person was the subject of episode # 99, The Floyd Gibbons Story.] **[trivia: Eliot Ness predicted car radios. The 1960s script writers would occasionally have the 1930s Ness predict such things.] ***[stock footage recycled from the pilot episode "The Scarface Mob".]