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, June 16, in 1931, Al Capone pleaded guilty to income tax evasion & 5,000 prohibition violations in a trial at the Chicago Federal Building (depicted in The Untouchables, 1987)

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, June 16, in 1931, Al Capone pleaded guilty to income tax evasion & 5,000 prohibition violations in a trial at the Chicago Federal Building (depicted in The Untouchables, 1987)

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was released in movie theaters 36 years ago today with an all-star cast.





Malone: "You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way!"

Sean Connery won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as Jim Malone.

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Now I'm listening to "Genetic Manipulation" by The Untouchables (2018)

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Will McKinley · @willmckinley
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Tonight in 1959 — THE UNTOUCHABLES w/ debuted on CBS’s DESILU PLAYHOUSE (hosted by ).

CBS rejected the series, so Lucy and Desi sold it to ABC.

specialist got an Emmy nomination for directing.

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Mandu 🥟 · @yurnidiot
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Paying hush money to a porn star isn't the worst thing TFG ever did. Just as taking a baseball bat to the head of an underling after dinner isn't the worst thing Al Capone ever did. Capiche?

PSA: Don't forget to file your taxes.

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Classic TV Today · @ustv40
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63 years ago today:
The Untouchables
S1E23: Three Thousand Suspects
September 1932. The Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, 430 miles west-southwest of Chicago, houses some of the nation's worst criminals. One of them is Nick Segal, who murdered 6 people, but only got convicted for violation of the Volstead Act; he got sentenced to 3 years, and is eligibl...
Airdate: 1960-03-24
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62 years ago today:
The Untouchables
S2E22: Murder Under Glass
November 1932. FDR was moving to end Prohibition, and the crime syndicate was already shifting away from booze to narcotics. In the next few months, the narcotic supply is running low.

February 20, 1933, Frank Nitti and his lieutenant Pete Konitz fly down to New Orleans, where the Mardi Gras will...
Airdate: 1961-03-23
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61 years ago today:
The Untouchables
S3E19: Element of Danger
Chicago, August 29, 1934. That night, in the Haymarket district, special agent Daniel Gosden, a policeman on loan to the Untouchables, goes through a skylight and finds an opium laboratory in the top floor of a rundown tenement hotel. Just then, drug lord Victor Rait and 4 hoods (Gus, Sully, Max, a...
Airdate: 1962-03-22
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Classic TV Today · @ustv40
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63 years ago today:
The Untouchables
S1E22: The White Slavers
March 31, 1934; Prohibition is over. Al Capone is still running things from Alcatraz, his new money-maker is ""white slavery"" which refers to prostitution; his main operation is run by a mean gangster named Mig Torrance. Right now, Eliot Ness is conducting his 7th raid since being assigned to clo...
Airdate: 1960-03-10
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Classic TV Today · @ustv40
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62 years ago today:
The Untouchables
S2E20: The Antidote
Mid-October 1932. The nation's attention is on the election campaign between incumbent president Herbert Hoover and his opponent Franklin D. Roosevelt, who is crippled by polio.  With Prohibition still the law of the land, the government is looking for ways to denature alcohol, which legitimate man...
Airdate: 1961-03-09
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Classic TV Today · @ustv40
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61 years ago today:
The Untouchables
S3E18: The Stryker Brothers
March 3, 1932. It's the great train robbery, on the southbound express headed for Chicago. The Stryker brothers steal mail sacks containing 750 grand in payroll money. During the robbery, a baggage man and Lippy Carson (an associate of the Stryker brothers, who had worked as a mail clerk) are kil...
Airdate: 1962-03-08
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Classic TV Today · @ustv40
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63 years ago today:
The Untouchables
S1E21: The Unhired Assassin (2)
Movie: ""The Gun of Zangara"" (continued)

Nitti's plenty sore! Mayor Cermak's stepped-up law enforcement has cut deeply into Nitti's operations. In the Montmartre club, Nitti takes a newspaper with a big photo of Cermak on the front page, and tacks it to the wall-- then Nitti takes out his 6-shoo...
Airdate: 1960-03-03
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JorgeA_Marin · @JorgeA_Marin
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Fiscal Nacional por alguna razón que no logro decodificar, me recuerda parte de la escena de la barbería y la entrevista al sensible de Alfonso Capone

youtube.com/watch?v=WX1gPZVoWv

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Classic TV Today · @ustv40
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61 years ago today:
The Untouchables
S3E17: Takeover
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 ...
Airdate: 1962-03-01
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Classic TV Today · @ustv40
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63 years ago today:
The Untouchables
S1E20: The Unhired Assassin (1)
Movie: ""The Gun of Zangara""

Chicago. November 9, 1932. FDR has just been elected president, and the repeal of Prohibition is inevitable. But later that night, Ness and his men smash another of Capone's breweries. Agent Youngfellow asks Eliot, ""Are we going to be out of work?"" But Ness tell...
Airdate: 1960-02-25
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63 years ago today:
The Untouchables
S1E19: The Big Squeeze
Chicago. Prior to May 1934, robbing state banks was not a federal offense. Bandits only had local police to contend with, and they were often understaffed, inefficient or corrupt. This led to a rash of successful, though clumsily executed, bank robberies. In this city alone, there were 422 robbe...
Airdate: 1960-02-18
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62 years ago today:
The Untouchables
S2E18: The Underground Court
September 8, 1934. A cruise ship from Cuba to New Jersey has caught fire. There are over 300 passengers on board; some of the passengers and crew are jumping overboard to avoid the flames. Ness and his men, on assignment in New Jersey, speed to get there when the ship docks; Ness has an arrest wa...
Airdate: 1961-02-16
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