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The Untouchables: The Scarface Mob [VHS]

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Oh how we remember the great old TV show, The Untouchables. This was the TV movie that started it all starring Robert Stack as Eliot Ness and Neville Brand as Scarface. In black and white with Walter Winchell narrating it, this video has a documentary feel and for it's day, was surprisingly violent and realistic. Of course in this day and age it hardly seems violent, almost naive in fact, which adds to it's charm. It has a wonderful ambience of it's time and place and takes one back to those good old bad days of Chicago gangsters and back to one of the finest TV shows there was. This is a very entertaining show. Wish they'd also make a video out of the two-parter Untouchable special where Scarface (again, Neville Brand) was taken to Alcatraz and tried to escape. In fact, I know there were some VHS tapes released of the old Untouchable tv series. Where are they now? I'd love to add them to my collection. Robert Stack is the quintessential Eliot Ness. This part was made for him.

Great movie. It's a re-run of the old Untouchable series which was on Television in the 50's. Wish they would do a series of these shows on tape. They were great. My husband watched these shows every week and when this video came out I had to buy it. We both enjoyed it greatly.