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The Untouchables (1959): New Jersey, the night of April 16, 1931. Waxey Gordon, the undisputed beer baron of New York, is muscling in on New Jersey, which is run by Frankie Dunn, "Bugs" Donovan and Roger Weiden. Waxey is waging a gang war to eliminate rival gangsters for control of the Jersey beer market. Waxey and his boys smash into a brewery owned and run by Frankie Dunn; they blast with their choppers until the large beer vats, Frankie and his workers are filled with holes. Next day, John Carvell, U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York, sends for Ness and his men. Ness and Lee Hobson drop in at Waxey's live theatre, where beautiful showgirl Flo Ingalls is doing her act in a sequined one-piece swimsuit. Later, Ness and Hobson go to Waxey's office to arrest him, but Flo (still in costume) provides his alibi, saying she was with Waxey all last night. April 18, in a private office at the swank Nest nightclub, there is a council of war: "Bugs" Donovan is convinced the N.Y. Syndicate is behind Waxey, so he tells his boys Jim Oakie and Vito Barron to hire a dozen men, and make sure they all pack heat; Roger Weiden has his 2 Katzenjammer kids, who used to be top gunmen for Frank Nitti, go to rub out Waxey. But they botch the job; while shooting at Waxey, they accidentally gun down Flo. So the next night, Waxey calls his own council of war at his palatial home, which is as big as a castle; it's a catered banquet for a dozen gangsters. Since Donovan and Weiden have hired 20 hitmen, Waxey decides not to shoot it out with them; instead he tells Louie, who used to work for Donovan, to set up a private meet with Donovan-- just Waxey at Donovan's place, the Nest. Money talks louder than guns, so Waxey tells his boy Charlie to get him 50 Gs cash, for "grease." Waxey goes to the Nest, and checks out the beautiful singer on stage, Elaine Warren (it seems he's over Flo's death). In a private office at the Nest, Donovan, fearing the N.Y. Syndicate, offers Waxey the old territory that Frankie Dunn had (and why not? Frankie's dead); it was 30% of the take. But Waxey wants it all. Donovan slaps Waxey, and tells Jim and Vito to rub him out; but they have been bought off with 50 grand (which is pretty cheap, now Waxey gets a multi-million dollar racket). The double-crossers shoot Donovan with a silencer; when Weiden comes in, he gets it with the silencer, too. Waxey sends for the Katzenjammer kids; Waxey is their new boss, they say that's O.K. with them. (so much for gang loyalty.) Waxey gives his first order: fit Donovan and Weiden with cement overcoats, and dump them in the river. Ness and his men will be in New York for some time; Enrico Rossi (who was a barber before he became one of the Untouchables) gives Ness a haircut in their hotel room. Ness decides to find the beer by finding out where Waxey gets his malt. They stake out some of the small places; on June 2, Agent Youngfellow spots 2 of Waxey's hoods going into the Ainslee Malt & Barley Co. Ness gets past the cold-as-a-refrigerator secretary, Miss Larkin (who had been with Ainslee for 8 years), and sees her boss. Ainslee tells Ness that Waxey intimidated him for 5 years, and he feared for himself and his wife, who died last year.* Ainslee agrees to give his records to Ness that night. But that night, when Ainslee leaves his office, with a briefcase full of sales slips and invoices, enough to convict Waxey, the moment he puts his foot to the starter, the car blows up in a huge, fiery explosion. Watching from another car are 2 of Waxey's hoods and the treacherous Miss Larkin, with smiles on their faces. When Eliot gets to the scene of the explosion, the incriminating papers are scattered like so much confetti, blown by the wind over a one block area. Ness and Lee Hobson follow a vegetable truck, and watch as it is loaded at a warehouse, no doubt with beer. After dark, they follow the truck to a warehouse at the outskirts of Elizabeth, N.J. At 11 p.m. Ness and his men raid the warehouse, but it's empty. Meanwhile, Waxey is wasting no time building up his new girlfriend, Elaine-- he will make her "the toast of Broadway," and then take her to a private party. But first, Waxey visits Ness at his hotel room. Waxey tries to bribe Ness; he sits down, and takes a big wad (if that's $100 bills, it must be about 20-25 grand), and drops it in the waste basket. Ness empties the wastebasket-- on Waxey's lap. Ness says he'll sweep him out with the rest of the trash. Waxey gets up; he yells at Ness that the real reason he won't play along is, "because you're yelloooow!" Ness slaps him hard; Waxey says, "The last time somebody did that to me, he had an accident-- for good." At the Hippodrome, Waxey's new girlfriend's name is up in lights: "Forty Naughty Girls - Elaine Warren." It is a smash Broadway musical. Later, after midnight, Waxey has a big bash at his palatial estate-- talk about bathtub gin: Elaine is taking a champagne bath in a bathtub in front of all the partying guests. But outside, Ness and Lee Hobson are writing down the license plate numbers of all the guests; the last plate belongs to Mr. Anderson, the commissioner of the Department of Public Works. Later that morning, Ness visits Orville Watson, the chief engineer at the Department of Water and Power; he tells Ness about big pipelines that have just been laid in the warehouse. Suspecting the pipes are used to pump beer, Ness asks the fire department to "flush out the pipes"; the Fire Department commissioner lends Ness some firemen and a high-pressure pump firetruck, which pumps at 400 pounds/square inch (about 10 times the pressure in normal water pipes). They go to the warehouse, and hook the firetruck up to the pipes; the huge pressure forces the beer back to the source. This makes the beer back up, go back to the brewery, and overflow the vats-- making a big flood of a mess. Portly brewmeister Otto Schneider is shocked to see his giant, 12-foot-high beer vats overflowing, and phones Waxey Gordon; Rico has a tap on the phone line, and traces the call. Then he tells the operator to get him Union City 0-7414.** Ness and his men raid the brewery. There is a shootout; Waxey surrenders. Crooked Commissioner Anderson got 10 years in prison. Brewmeister Otto Schneider got leniency, for his testimony that put Waxey away: they had made 7,000 barrels of beer/week-- at $20 a barrel that's $140,000/week, which is $7-million a year, on which Waxey paid only a mere $1,000 a year in tax. His name was Waxey, but he wasn't slippery enough to elude Eliot Ness-- Waxey died in Alcatraz in 1952. (synopsis by: kdh)