Overview

In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone 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.

Cast

Rod Steiger

Al Capone

Fay Spain

Maureen Flannery

James Gregory

Schaefler (narrator)

Martin Balsam

Mac Keeley, reporter

Nehemiah Persoff

Johnny Torrio

Murvyn Vye

George 'Bugs' Moran

Robert Gist

Dion O'Banion