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Al Capone
His True Shocking Story...Filmed with Bullet Force!
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone 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.
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Top Cast
Rod Steiger
Al Capone
Fay Spain
Maureen Flannery
James Gregory
Schaefler (narrator)
Martin Balsam
Mac Keeley, reporter
Nehemiah Persoff
Johnny Torrio
Murvyn Vye
George 'Bugs' Moran
Robert Gist
Dion O'Banion
Lewis Charles
Earl Weiss
Directed by
Richard Wilson
Production
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John Chard
7/109/20/2015
Nobody who's smart goes hungry in Chicago. Al Capone is directed by Richard Wilson and written by Malvin Wald and Henry F. Greenberg. It stars Rod Steiger, Martin Balsam, Nehemiah Persoff, Fay Spain, Joe DeSantis and Murvyn Vye. Music is by David Raksin and cinematography by Lucien Ballard. Alphonse Gabriel Capone, it's a name synonymous with gangsters of 1920s America, and of course of cinematic films. Richard Wilson's film is one of the better gangster biopics out there, filmed in semi-doc style, it unfolds with great human drama without glorifying the subject matter. If anything it's refreshingly unsentimental in its approach. Steiger is Capone (never Caponee!) and he puts his method stomp all over the role, carrying the film squarely on his well cast shoulders. He has all the
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