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CHICAGO – In the pantheon of Chicago crime fighters, nobody has the worldwide reputation of Eliot Ness. He’s the Prohibition agent who brought down Al Capone, the principled lawman in a city awash in ...

Brian de Palma's 1987 classic The Untouchables took the 1959 series of the same name, starring Robert Stack as the "untouchable" Eliot Ness, and made a taut crime drama with stunning performances by ...

CHICAGO — In the pantheon of Chicago crime fighters, nobody has the worldwide reputation of Eliot Ness. He's the Prohibition agent who brought down Al Capone, the principled lawman in a city awash in ...

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