Eliot Ness vs. Al Capone

Eliot Ness vs. Al Capone

53 mins | Documentary, History, TV Movie | March 29, 2009

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.

Eliot Ness vs. Al Capone

53 mins | Documentary, History, TV Movie | March 29, 2009

Eliot Ness vs. Al Capone
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.
Producers ARTE, RTBF, Télévision Suisse-Romande, Planète+, Artv, Temps noir, TG4
Original title Eliot Ness contre Al Capone
Directors Patrick Jeudy
Writers Patrick Jeudy

Cast

Eliot Ness

as Himself

Al Capone

as Himself