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Eliot Ness vs. Al Capone
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Eliot Ness vs. Al Capone

Mar 29, 2009
0h 53m
★ 6.0

Overview

January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime underworld with brute force and corrupting many touchable individuals. Until the day the head of the Untouchables Brigade, Eliot Ness, entered the scene. Since then, a cruel battle between the two of them began, a battle that ended in trial, conviction, disease, insanity and death.

Genres

Documentary
History
TV Movie

Production Companies

Temps noir
ARTE
TSR
RTBF
TG4
Artv
Planète+

Cast

Eliot Ness

Himself

Eliot Ness

Al Capone

Himself

Al Capone

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