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The Untouchable The untouchable film is a drama unit about the fight between the gangsters Capone and law officer Eliot Ness. Capone controls nearly the whole of Chicago city besides he provides low quality liquor at high costs. Eliot Ness is a lawman who comes to Chicago at the time of prohibition when the local police section is very corrupt (Floyd). He comes to displease gangster Capone by getting him out of the corporate. Ness finds Capone being so influential and popular such that he even controls the government and the media.
Having been disheartened, Ness keeps fining new ideas until he meets Jimmy Malone a truthful genre of man. Ness engages Malone who assists him with ideas on how he can create his own team from the police academy. Ness forms a strong team with George Stone an Italian-American trainee besides an accountant Oscar Wallace that will beat Capone and his unlawful welfares (Floyd). Ness and his team raids Capone’s liquor storeroom. The raid succeeds and Capone kills the storeroom caretaker. Press notes Ness and his team besides Oscar Wallace starts to probe the Capone’s organization savings.
An alderman from Chicago, one of Capone’s cohorts, visits Nell aiming at convincing him to end the investigation (Floyd). Nell rejects the offer and the alderman warns him that Capone can get any person in to his arms. Carpone’s chief Frank Nitti threatens to kill Ness and his family where he shifts his family to a safer residence. Stone and Malone bring the news of liquor shipment coming to Chicago from Canada. Nell and his team then fly to the border northwards to plot for an attack. During the attack, Ness team either kills or arrests whoever is involved.
George is arrested so that he can be evidence against Capone (Floyd). Infuriated, Capone orders his team to kill Ness and his family, besides it is at that time when Ness’ wife has just given birth. While in the Mise-en-scene of police station, George and Wallace are killed by Nitti who disguises himself as a cop. This leaves Ness with very little evidence to media charges and he becomes so much frustrated that he fights Capone. Malone gets involved and makes Ness to withdraw from the fight besides, he advises him to request the attorney general not to drop his case until he finds another witness (Floyd).
Malone plans to get Walter Payne one of Capone’s storekeepers as a witness, but he is killed in the process. Ness and Stone gets Payne alive out of gangsters who had fled him to Union Station. Payne gives evidence in court against Capone. While in court Nitti has a firearm and Ness discovers that he is permitted to have it where a subtext of corruption emerges. Ness takes Nitti out of the court where he murders him by throwing him off the roof. Whereas, Judge Favors Capone even after he is provided with adequate evidence by Ness and his team.
Ness threatens the judge to do the right thing who out of fear exchanges the case ruling with another judge. In the process, Capone’s lawyer changes his plea to guilty where Capone is imprisoned for eleven years (Floyd). Ness explains to Saint Jude about his previous life with Malone was. The theme ends Ness meets a reporter who makes inquiries from him but he avoids the question and says that he thinks he will have drink (Floyd). Work Cited Floyd Gibbons. The Untouchables 1x00 The Scarface Mob 3/8.
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