The Untouchables (1959): April 28, 1932. Chicago. 3,500 fans are at the arena, watching the end of a 7-day bicycle race. But Ed "Duke" Monte is there to make a drop-off. Ness and Lee Hobson catch him, with a quarter of a million dollars in counterfeit bills in his leather bag. On May 25, Monte is sentenced to 10-15 years in the State Pen. That same day, at Monte's old headquarters (the Odeon Theatre which specializes in Burlesque), his former lieutenant, Lou Sultan, is having the guy he accuses of being the stoolie, Parrot Krebs, worked over by his thugs. Lou tells Janos Dalka (Monte's bodyguard) to rub the stoolie out. Next day, Ness and Lee Hobson pay Lou Sultan a visit at the theatre; they know he had Parrot knocked off, but can't prove it yet. When they leave, Barbara Sultan, dressed to the nines, talks to her hubby. Lou tells her, "Don't give me that jealous wife routine," and she snaps back that he should stop fooling around with all the strippers. Ed Monte busts out of prison, and as Janos is driving the getaway car, Monte tells him he killed the wrong guy-- Parrot wasn't the stoolie, Lou was. Monte, in the back-seat of the car, gets shot by the cops, but they manage to escape. Later, in a hideout (an abandoned building), Monte realizes he's slowly dying from the bullet wound, but he wants to see Lou rubbed out before he dies-- this is complicated by the fact that Lou Sultan had married his daughter Barbara; Monte feels she loves her husband, and he doesn't want to hurt his daughter. Janos goes to the Odeon Theatre, and talks to Barbara; she is worried about her father. Janos tells her he is okay (not that he's dying), and that her father thinks Lou squealed on him. Barbara acts surprised, and says if Lou did it, she is totally unaware. Janos leaves. Barbara feels loyalty towards her husband, until she walks into a room and catches him fooling around with the strippers again. She runs after Janos, and tells him it definitely was her husband who tipped the Feds; (as Shakespeare wrote so eloquently, "Hell hath no fury as a woman scorned"). Ness had been tipped off by an unsigned telegram. To prevent a gang war between the now-splintered Monte and Sultan factions, he had to trace it. He finds out it was called in from a phone in the back of a certain beauty salon, and by checking which customers were in that day, he determines who phoned it in. Ed Monte dies from the gunshot wound, but before he does he makes Janos swear he will kill the person who betrayed him, no matter who it is. Janos swears. The gang war that Ness feared breaks out, and there is bloodshed and violence. To try to stop the war, Ness tells Janos who sent the telegram: it wasn't Lou, it was Barbara. Later, Janos confronts Barbara. Why did she do it? Barbara explains that her husband Lou was setting Ed Monte up for a kill, and in prison he'd be safe, they couldn't get to him. Ness and his men arrive, and in the shootout, Janos is shot by Ness. Barbara's plan to protect her father had backfired terribly--just like Jack the Giant Killer, who had slain with almost no effort, Barbara had killed 3 men without trying: Parrot Krebs, Janos Dalka, and her father Ed Monte. 7 months later, her husband Lou Sultan was gunned down by one of his own lieutenants-- only one person attended his funeral, and Barbara did not shed any tears. (synopsis by: kdh)

Starring:

Abel Fernandez, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni, Robert Stack, Steve London, Walter Winchell

Genre:

Action, Crime, Drama