Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama /

Score: 66%( 51 votes )

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

Lewis Charles
Earl Weiss

Joe De Santis
Big Jim Colosimo

Sandy Kenyon
Bones Corelli

Raymond Bailey
Lawyer Brancato

Al Ruscio
Tony Genaro

Louis Quinn
Joe Lorenzo

Ron Soble
John Scalisi

Steve Gravers
Albert Anselmi

Raikin Ben-Ari
Ben Hoffman

Fred Aldrich
Funeral Spectator

Cindy Ames
Nurse

James Bacon
Reporter

Paul Bradley
Benefit Guest

Ralph Brooks
Convict in Yard at Alcatraz

Allen Jaffe
Bodyguard

Clegg Hoyt
Lefty

Paul Bryar
Police Inspector (uncredited)

Larry Chance
Vincent (uncredited)

Dick Cherney
Moran Associate (uncredited)

Mason Curry
Tailor (uncredited)

Russell Custer
Funeral Spectator (uncredited)

Rudy Doucette
Hood (uncredited)

Sol Gorss
Capone Hood at Polling Place (uncredited)

Mauritz Hugo
Hood (uncredited)

Forbes Murray
Pallbearer at Colosimo's Funeral (uncredited)

Dan Riss
Voice of Radio Announcer (uncredited)

Charles Sherlock
Reporter (uncredited)

Fred Sherman
Storekeeper (uncredited)