Directed by:
Richard WilsonCinematography:
Lucien BallardComposer:
David RaksinCast:
Rod Steiger, Fay Spain, James Gregory, Martin Balsam, Nehemiah Persoff, Murvyn Vye, Joseph Sargent, Robert Gist, Sydney Lassick, Sandy Kenyon, John Mitchum (more)VOD (1)
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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. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Rod Steiger
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Der Zauberberg (1982)
The Longest Day (1962)
Fay Spain
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Al Capone (1959)
James Gregory
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Flight of Dragons (1982)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Martin Balsam
USA
Best movies:
12 Angry Men (1957)
Psycho (1960)
Little Big Man (1970)
Nehemiah Persoff
Israel
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Murvyn Vye
USA
Best movies:
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Pickup (1951)
Golden Earrings (1947)
Joseph Sargent
USA
Best movies:
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Al Capone (1959)
Tobrouk, commando pour l'enfer (1967)
Robert Gist
USA
Best movies:
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
The Stratton Story (1949)
Sydney Lassick
USA
Best movies:
Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou (1975)
Serpico (1973)
L'Homme sur la lune (1999)
Sandy Kenyon
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Columbo (1971) (series)
John Mitchum
USA
Best movies:
My Fair Lady (1964)
Stalag 17 (1953)
El Dorado (1966)
Roy Jenson
Canada
Best movies:
Cry for Me, Billy (1972)
Chinatown (1974)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Raymond Bailey
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Vertigo (1958)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Allen Jaffe
USA
Best movies:
Papillon (1973)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Al Capone (1959)
Paul Bryar
USA
Best movies:
Butch Cassidy et le Kid (1969)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Vertigo (1958)
Jeffrey Sayre
USA
Best movies:
Bon Voyage! (1962)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
North by Northwest (1959)
Lee Weaver
USA
Best movies:
Donnie Darko (2001)
Vanishing Point (1971)
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
Forbes Murray
Canada
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Vertigo (1958)
Harold Miller
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)