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Al Capone (film)
1959 film
Al Capone is a 1959 biographicalcrimedrama film directed by Richard Wilson,[4] written by Malvin Wald and Henry F. Greenberg and released by Allied Artists.
It stars Rod Steiger as Al Capone.
The finished film was noted for its deglamorized portrayal of Capone.[5]
Plot
Chicago, 1919: A young Al Capone arrives to work for mob boss Johnny Torrio.
He meets Torrio's top man, "Big Jim" Colosimo, who runs business and politics in the First Ward while secretly on Torrio's payroll.
Prohibition is enacted a year later, causing Torrio and other gangsters like Dean O'Banion, George "Bugs" Moran and Earl "Hymie" Weiss to compete for profits in bootleg liquor and beer.
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Colosimo is too old and comfortable to desire the new liquor racket, so Capone convinces Torrio to allow Colosimo's assassination, making Torrio kingpin.
A reform mayor is elected, so Torrio and Capone change their base of operations to Cicero, a few miles away.
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