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During the era of Prohibition, gangsters gained enormous power by controlling the illicit drink. The most infamous was a thug from Brooklyn who murdered his way to the top and was, for a time, one of the most powerful men in the United States.
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone (Rod Steiger) comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest "business," but moves inexorably toward his downfall and ignominious end.
Original Release
03/25/1959
US Release
03/25/1959
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Rod Steiger | Al Capone |
Fay Spain | Maureen Flannery |
James Gregory | Sgt. Schaeffer / Schaefler (narrator) |
Martin Balsam | Mac Keely / Mac Keeley, reporter |
Nehemiah Persoff | Johnny Torrio |
Murvyn Vye | George 'Bugs' Moran |
Robert Gist | Dion O'Banion |
Lewis Charles | Earl Weiss |
Joe De Santis | Big Jim Colosimo |
Sandy Kenyon | Bones Corelli |
Directors
Writers
Malvin Wald, Henry F. Greenberg
Cast
Name | Character |
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Rod Steiger | Al Capone |
Fay Spain | Maureen Flannery |
James Gregory | Sgt. Schaeffer / Schaefler (narrator) |
Martin Balsam | Mac Keely / Mac Keeley, reporter |
Nehemiah Persoff | Johnny Torrio |
Murvyn Vye | George 'Bugs' Moran |
Robert Gist | Dion O'Banion |
Lewis Charles | Earl Weiss |
Joe De Santis | Big Jim Colosimo |
Sandy Kenyon | Bones Corelli |
Raymond Bailey | Lawyer Brancato |
Al Ruscio | Tony Genaro |
Louis Quinn | Joe Lorenzo |
Ron Soble | John Scalisi |
Steve Gravers | Albert Anselmi |
Raikin Ben-Ari | Ben Hoffman |
Fred Aldrich | Funeral Spectator |
Cindy Ames | Nurse |
James Bacon | Reporter |
Paul Bradley | Party Guest / Benefit Guest |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Leonard Ackerman | Producer |
John H. Burrows | Producer |