During the era of Prohibition, gangsters gained enormous power by controlling the illicit drink. The most infamous was a thug from Brooklyn who murdered his way to the top and was, for a time, one of the most powerful men in the United States. In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone (Rod Steiger) 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.
This is a great movie, very underrated. And I wn the dvd and vhs. Rod Steiger plays a great Al Capone.
DomenicSinatra 1 year ago
Al Capone was distributed by Allied Artists. AA produced such films as Friendly Persuasion, El Cid, 55 Days At Peking, Papillion, Cabaret. Love In The Afternoon, The Man Who Would Be King , starring Ava Gardner, Steve McQueen, Liza Minnelli, Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, David Niven, Sophia Loren, Charlton Heston. . One of AA's most successful films was Elvis Presley's Tickle Me. AA's last major film was Billy Wilder's brilliant film Fedora starring Bill Holden and Henry Fonda.
ToughXArmy69 1 year ago