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The Untouchables (1959): Chicago, October 1932. The only "beer" allowed to be served during Prohibition is "near-beer" or "Near-O"-- which is 0.5% alcohol, as opposed to real beer which is 4.0% alcohol. And so, a lot of legitimate beer producers wind up "spiking" the barrels of near-beer with pure alcohol, to get it up to strength. A northside brewer named Woody O'Mara wants to smash all his competition; he tells his girlfriend Ann Gratzner, a rather plain-looking 23-year-old secretary for rival brewer Franz Koenig, to blow the whistle on her boss. Herr Koenig is a kindly boss who refers to Ann as "mein liebes Kind" (my dear child). Ness and his men drop in on Franz Koenig; he claims all his beer is de-alcoholized, as prescribed by law. But when Ness gets through a false wall, he finds a truck loaded with beer barrels. Lee Hobson sticks a hydrometer in a barrel: 4.0%. Koenig says he was shipping the beer to a plant to be de-alcoholized, but can't answer Ness when he asks: where is it? Who runs it? Koenig is arrested. Now, there are only 2 kings of beer left: Woody O'Mara and Charlie Zenko-- but Charlie has his boy Packy plant a bomb in O'Mara's car. Boom! With a blinding flash of fire and smoke, Charlie Zenko is now the only king of beer. At the pretrial hearing, Franz Koenig sticks to his story: he was not shipping the booze to a speakeasy, but rather to a de-alcoholizing plant. The Prosecutor asks him the same questions Ness did: where is it? Who runs it? Unbelievably, even though Koenig has had days to prepare for this hearing-- and, one assumes, has talked to a lawyer-- he is still as totally unprepared to answer those questions as when Ness first put them to him. Enter surprise witness (surprise even to Koenig) for the defense: Leo Mencken, who says he owns the plant at 1420 State Avenue. Leo has come prepared, he has a forged contract with Koenig, forged purchase orders for the past 6 months, and a lease for the plant going back 7 months. Leo testifies Koenig was trying to protect him from bootleggers who would hijack the trucks; now he will have to close his plant and relocate. Charges are dismissed against Koenig, there will be no trial. Koenig is perplexed; Ness is frustrated. Ness goes over Leo Mencken's paper trail. Meanwhile, Charlie Zenko's boy Packy drops in on Ann-- her boyfriend Woody O'Mara is dead, and she just lost her job because she testified against her boss Franz Koenig-- and offers her some of Charlie's money. Ann won't take the money, but accepts a job as a cocktail waitress in Charlie's speak. Leo Mencken forces Franz Koenig to be his uneasy partner; Leo will needle (spike) the near-beer he makes with alcohol. Leo does this by adding gel capsules (containing alcohol) that take 45 minutes to dissolve to the barrels of beer; the barrels pass Ness' inspections, but contain full-strength beer by the time they get to the speaks.* Charlie Zenko's business drops off; he's drowning in beer, but nobody will buy it from him. He phones the New York Syndicate, and finds out Joe Kulak sent Leo. Meanwhile, Leo is being entertained by a shimmy dancer in his 2nd story hotel room; a truck pulls up outside, and a hitman blasts with his chopper when Leo is by the window. The hitman misses Leo, but puts a few dozen holes in the walls. Leo phones Ness and gives him a tip; Ness and his men raid Charlie Zenko's warehouse, smashing his enormous stockpile of beer barrels. Charlie goes to Koenig, and is surprised to learn that "Leo Mencken" is really his son Larry Zenko. 8 years ago, Charlie put out the word that nobody can hire his son; Larry hasn't talked to his father since then. But Larry has been working for Joe Kulak for 3 years. Later, Joe Kulak visits Leo in his hotel room. Kulak tells Leo to go back to New York. FDR is going to be elected, and Prohibition will end; they've got to take over the Northside fast, and bump off Charlie Zenko. Kulak doesn't expect Leo to knock off his own father, and wants Leo out of town. Leo sets up a plan to save his father: first, he calls Franz Koenig (whom he wants out of the way) and tells him to be on the corner of 14th & Sutton at 10 p.m. Shortly before 10, at Charlie's speak, Leo tells waitress Ann that Charlie rubbed out Woody O'Mara; he gets her to slip Charlie a mickey. Then, at 10 o'clock, Koenig is sandwiched between a speeding car and a lamppost. It is made to look like the unconscious Charlie was the driver. Ness arrests Charlie for manslaughter. November 4, 1932. Charlie tells Ness that if he is released, he'll hand Leo over to him; Ness has Judge Morrison set the bail for manslaughter at a very low $200. Charlie goes to Leo at the brewery, with Ness and his men tailing him. Leo admits to Charlie that he had him framed; Leo will have Chicago under his control, and Charlie will get a 5-year "vacation" in prison rather than be killed. But when Leo tells Charlie his secret, about the alcohol gel capsules, Charlie double-crosses him and says he'll tell Ness. Leo points his gun at Charlie; Charlie's bodyguard Packy shoots Leo in self-defense. Just then, Ness and his men burst in; Ness yells, "Hold it!" Then, in a very illogical move, Packy (who is innocent, he just shot in self-defense) fires his gun; Ness and Lee Hobson gun him down. One week before Prohibition ended, Charlie Zenko was sentenced to 6 years in Leavenworth; he died in 1935, after serving 2 years of his sentence. (synopsis by: kdh) ---------------------------------