"The Untouchables" (1959)TV-Serie 1959-1963

Directors:

Alex March
Stuart Rosenberg

Drehbuchautoren:

Leonard Kantor (writer) (6 episodes)
George Eckstein (writer) (4 episodes)

Staffeln:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Premierendatum:

15. Oktober 1959 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Krimi | Drama

Plot:

Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

Plot Keywords:

Mafia | Police | Federal Agent | Organized Crime | US Treasury Agents

Filmpreise:

Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 7 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

A web of mysterious gangland horror

Besetzung

Robert Stack	...	Eliot Ness (118 Folgen, 1959-1963)
Walter Winchell	...	Narrator (118 Folgen, 1959-1963)
Nicholas Georgiade	...	Agent Enrico Rossi / ... (86 Folgen, 1959-1963)
Abel Fernandez	...	Agent William Youngfellow / ... (71 Folgen, 1959-1962)
Paul Picerni	...	Agent Lee Hobson / ... (63 Folgen, 1960-1963)
Steve London	...	Agent Jack Rossman / ... (58 Folgen, 1959-1963)

Alternativ:

Chicago 1930 (Österreich) (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]
Unbestechlichen, Die (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

60 Min (118 episodes)

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss

Seitenverhältnis:

1.33 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono

Altersfreigabe:

Australia:PG

Drehorte:

Backlot, Desilu Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Firma:

Desilu Productions

Dies und das:

According to testimony from Jimmy 'The Weasel' Fratianno, a Mafia boss turned FBI informant, the Chicago family of the Mafia ordered the assassination of the show's producer Desi Arnaz because they didn't like, (a) the fact that the success of the show was focusing attention on the Mafia, and (b) the show's portrayal of Italians. Fratianno said that two hitmen hid themselves near Arnaz's house one night waiting for him to show up, but he never did. Shortly afterwards the assassination order was rescinded when it was realized that Arnaz's murder would cause the Mafia more trouble than it was worth.

Dialogzitate:

Police Officer: There is nothing in that area... except an old abandoned warehouse.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005) (TV)

A web of mysterious gangland horror

I had never heard of "The Untouchables" TV show until one morning

my 8th grade English teacher, Mr. Schmidt started ranting about the

graphic violence depicted in movies and on television shows such as

"The Untouchables" and what was he world coming to? From the next

broadcast, I was an avid fan. Much as in the style of the James Cagney

classic of 1933, "Public Enemy," "The Untouchables" wove a web of

mysterious gangland horror by NOT showing the graphic violence but by

instead keeping the killing in the shadows. The creators of the series

never forgot that there is nothing you can show in theater that can

measure up to the imagination of the audience. Another mysterious dimension to the series is, like "The Alfred

Hitchcock Show", "The Untouchables" had an uncanny knack of featuring

actors who would later become stars or at least very well known faces

in movies and on television. After 4 years in the air force including

a year in Vietnam, I watched the series as daily re-runs during the

summer of 1971 just before going to university in Tokyo. One episode

had Telly Savalas as an up and coming bookkeeper with The Mob run by

Frank Nitty while Al Capone was in prison. That evening other business

pulled me away from the television set and I figured I'd see the second

half of the show some other time. Because I have been in Japan ever

since, I never did find out whatever happened to the character played

by Telly Savalas. Less than two years later, however, Telly Savalas

finally made it big in television as Kojak.