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.

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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

Rod Steiger — Al Capone

Rodney Stephen "Rod" Steiger (April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was a European-American actor known for his performances in such films as In the Heat of the Night, Oklahoma!, Waterloo, The Pawnbroker, On the Waterfront, The Harder They Fall, Doctor Zhivago, and Jesus of Nazareth.

Fay Spain — Maureen Flannery

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James Gregory — Schaefler (narrator)

James Gregory (December 23, 1911 – September 16, 2002) was an American actor. His best-known roles include Schaffer in Al Capone (1959), the McCarthy-like Sen. John Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate (1962), General Ursus in Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), and Inspector Frank Luger in the television sitcom Barney Miller (1975–1982). Gregory grew up in New Rochelle, NY. In high school, he w