The Untouchables - Season 1, Vol. 1
starring: Carl Milletaire, Robert Bice
directed by: Joe Parker, Alex March, Abner Biberman, Stuart Rosenberg, Robert Gist
directed by: Joe Parker, Alex March, Abner Biberman, Stuart Rosenberg, Robert Gist
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0097361227740
Format: Subtitled
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Running Time: 315 minutes
Sales Rank: 6136
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: October 15, 1959
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Product Description:
The Untouchables chronicles the campaign of Eliot Ness (Robert Stack) the young U.S. Prohibition Bureau agent to smash the beer and booze empire of Al Capone in 1920s Chicago.System Requirements:Run Time: 644 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 097361227740 Manufacturer No: 122774
Amazon.com:
Though certainly tame by The Shield standards, the inaugural 14 episodes from The Untouchables' 1959-60 season are still as potent as a shot of Al Capone's bootleg whiskey. Dames get slapped around. Mugs are mowed down in a hail of wall-pocking, mirror-shattering bullets. Upstanding citizens are brutally terrorized by thugs. Incorruptible Feds are brazenly rubbed out. Sometimes, criminals have the last laugh. It has the visceral kick of watching one of those pre-code Hollywood movies produced before the Hays Office stepped in to sanitize objectionable content. This set opens with the theatrically released version of the two-part pilot episode that set the noir sensibility of the series. Robert Stack (in his iconic and oft-parodied role) stars as Elliot Ness, a straight-arrow Federal agent who forms a special squad of 'reliable, courageous, dedicated and honest' men who initially take on Al Capone's corrupt criminal empire in 1929 Chicago. Ness is 'a real man,' (as a 'burly-q' stripper observes). He's just not exactly loaded with personality. Nor do any other of the squad members stand out, except perhaps for Martin Flahrety, and that's only because he's played by a pre-Dick Van Dyke Show Jerry Paris. But from Neville Brand's Al Capone and Claire Trevor's Ma Barker to an unbilled Harry Dean Stanton as a suspect blind newspaperman, it's the legendary criminals and their henchmen (and the great character actors who portray them) who give each episode considerable moxie.
Produced by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball's Desilu Studios, this groundbreaking series is based on the book The Untouchables: The Real Story by Ness and Oscar Fraley. Real? Not quite. Despite Walter Winchell's signature rat-a-tat narration that gives the proceedings a documentary-like tone, liberties were taken in retelling the sagas of Capone, Dutch Schultz, Lucky Luciano, 'Bugs' Moran, 'Mad Dog' Coll, and others. But the episodes are so pulpishly good that even if Ness was never really involved in a shootout with Barker (and he wasn't), more forgiving viewers will be of the opinion that he should have been. --Donald Liebenson
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- The BestWhen this program was running on Australian TV of course there were no such things as DVD recorders ... Read More
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- better than the 60sThe picture quality is better than it ever was on black and white tv. However, the dvds wouldn't play ... Read More
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- Great DVD series but overshadowed with greedGreat series and a classic you must own. I agree with others, its greed driving dividing up the season ... Read More
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- Great TV!!!Robert Stack as Eliot Ness......In the intro you see Desi Arnaz introducing the series-wow! How cool is ... Read More
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- Why not an "any region" DVD release5 stars because it was the most scintillating show of its time, and still stands watching today -- for its ... Read More
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