The Untouchables-Take over part 1/5

The Untouchables(1959)
1 March 1962 (Season 3, Episode 17)

Dir.: Bernard Louis Kowalski
Writers: Theodore Apstein and George Bellak

Eliot Ness: Robert Stack
Agent William Youngfellow: Abel Fern?ndez
Leo Maenken: Robert Loggia

Franz Koenig: Johnn Banner
Charlie Zenko: Luther Adler
Woody O'Mara: Mort Mills
Amy Gratzner: Colin Wilcox
Packy: Leonard Nimoy

Illegal owners of breweries fight each other. One of them, Woody O'Mara, marries Amy, the secretary of another brewery owner, Franz Koenig. She gives away the knowledge of the place where the alcohol is stored though she likes her boss. With a bad consciousness she watches how police (Ness) soon discover the hidden truck and alcohol. Her Boss, Koenig, thinks of one excuse: He wanted to send the alcohol to a plant where beer which has got too high a percentage (more percent than allowed by the law) is de-alcoholized.

Packy, Charlie Zenko's bodyguard and killer, has his way to subtract Zenko's competitor, Woody, from the scene. "The cigarette lighter," he tells Zenko after the competitor has left. Soon a car gets blown up outside. The secretary has to testify against her boss, Franz Koenig. No one believes him that he wanted to send his beer for de--alcoholizing until a man stands up and reveals the address of the plant. Koenig goes free after the man explains why Koenig did not give away the address by himself: He had promised not to tell anybody.

Because Zenko cares for Amy of Franz Koenig who has lost her job, Packy visits her and offers her money. Instead of taking the money, she tells Packy she rather would have a new job. Packy suggests that she works as a waitress for Zenko. Koenig visits the stranger who has witness for him. Koenig does not want to produce beer any more- only the legal 0.5 %. The stranger, Leo Maenken, tells him that he has got a special way to put alcohol into the beer when it has been brewed legally. Police find Koenig's barrels soon after they have left the brewery and discover that it is full proof. One wonders: "When did they have the time to do it?" "That's it," Ness says, "They didn't." Frequent visits to the brewery only reveal legal beer while Koenig and the stranger rejoice about the capsules they put into the barrels. After dissolving during the transport full proof is reached.

Leo Maenken moves in on Zenko. After Packy has confirmed his absolute loyalty, Zenko thinks of giving him a piece of the action. Now Zenko phones the other side to find out who sent Leo Maenken. He is told that they have sent him and that he is in for a surprise. Soon Zenko's brewery is hit and partly destroyed. When Zenko and Packy visit Koenig, believing he is behind it, Zenko tells him for whom Maenken is working. Now Koenig calls Maenken who's a great surprise for Zenko: Leo Maenken is Larry Zenko, his son who had left 8 years ago: "Hello, Papa!" he says. In spite of all both want to meet for a drink that night. But Leo is called back by his boss -- his job to take over the north side is finished. The president's speech had revealed that prohibition might be over soon. Leo's boss will now hit Zenko himself because Leo would not be able to do it.

Leo/Larry tells Amy that his father killed her boyfriend. Now she is cooperating with him and gives Zenko a drink which raises the level of alcohol in him. Larry also phones Koenig to be at a certain corner at a certain time. His father drives and kills Koenig -- not aware what he is doing. In prison for manslaughter, Zenko learns by Amy that Woody O'Mara was her husband. Larry has told her that Zenko killed her husband. He is now willing to assist the police. They let him go after he had promised to turn in Larry Zenko. Charlie Zenko does not want Packy to go with him when he brings in his son and tells him to wait in the car. At Larry's place, Zenko learns by his son that he had done it to save his life, because his boss was after him. But Zenko leaves and tells him before that he'll turn him in. Now his son draws a gun on him. A shot is fired -- but it is Leo who dies. Packy has shot to save his boss' life. Now Police quickly come in and shoot Packy in self defense. Zenko shares that this is what he did not want: To see his son shot dead.

Cast: Robert Stack, Luther Adler, Robert Loggia, Collin Wilcox Paxton, John Banner, Paul Picerni, Nicholas Georgiade, Abel Fernandez, Mort Mills,
Leonard Nimoy, Oscar Beregi Jr., Chris Carter, Bruno VeSota, William Bryant, Walter Winchell

http://www.ponilla.org/Nimoy/TVFilms_U_Takeover.htm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0737783/

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• Robert Stack
• Luther Adler
• Robert Loggia
• Collin Wilcox Paxton
• John Banner
• Paul Picerni
• Nicholas Georgiade
• Abel Fernandez
• Mort Mills
• Leonard Nimoy
• nimoy
• Oscar Beregi Jr.
• Chris Carter
• Bruno VeSota
• William Bryant
• Walter Winchell
• Action
• Crime
• Drama

[mekkysi]

A Desilu Production. That's quality TV :)

[anotherpunkrocker]

Aaah, it's Schultz!  :)

[Juliaflo]

@mekkysi One of the 'go-to' production companies of the 1950s and 1960s.

[leonardnimoylover1]

leonard is so cool

[25mfd]

Luther adler played the part of nick vashon in the V for vashon trilogy(HAWAII 5-0)

[kybelian]

NIMOY!  Great!

[concretedemon777]

"I ain't got time for no clock"

[onemooners]

classic

[cheeseschrister]

A reminder: The war on drugs is a FAILURE....

[switchstand]

Ah, one of my favorite episodes of "The Untouchables"