Product Details

• Actors: Robert Stack, Walter Winchell, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni, Abel Fernandez
• Producers: Bert Granet
• Format: Subtitled, Full Screen
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: April 10, 2007
• Run Time: 805 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (75 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000LV6W00
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,601 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Untouchables - Season 1, Vol. 1" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team battle organized crime in 1930's Chicago.
Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 10-APR-2007
Media Type: DVD

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53 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic G-Men vs. Mobsters Saga, March 5, 2007

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Terence Allen (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Untouchables - Season 1, Vol. 1 (DVD)

Retro television shows have never done particularly well unless they were set in the Old West. Shows set in the 20's, 30's, 40's, etc, any era outside of the one in which they aired have never lasted long except in three major exceptions - Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and The Untouchables.

The Untouchables succeeded for a number of reasons. First, the veil that had been on the Mafia for a number of years was slowly but surely being peeled off due to gangland killings and the fame of gangsters such as Al Capone, Bugsy Siegel, Dutch Schultz, Lucky Luciano, and others. Even before the Godfather and its outstanding first sequel, the public had a fascination and curiosity with the mob. So take some true events, ture characters, heavily fictionalize them with Hollywood gloss and pathos, and you get a very successful show that made a star out of Robert Stack and brought new fame to a Treasury agent named Eliot Ness.

The Untouchables' First Season collection should not have been split up into multiple sections. That's greed, pure and simple. But the lure of this show - its great characters, performances, grit and intelligence will draw buyers even though they know they're being ripped off. Stack's Ness is one of the best alltime detectives - fearless, relentless, and absolutely ruthless with the bad guys. His politically correct team had everything but a black guy (which would have really stretched believability too far), including a white guy (Hobson), Italian (Rossi), Native American (Youngfellow), and Jew (Rossman). The supporting casts were always excellent, and Bruce Gordon brough the right amount of humor and menace to Frank Nitti, Capone's chief lieutenant.

The Untouchables - Season One, Volume 1 is not untouchable, but it is irresistable.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Gangs Of Chicago Won't Know What Hit Them..., April 10, 2007

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Kelly Lynch (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Untouchables - Season 1, Vol. 1 (DVD)

It's an oddity that this stellar series was abandoned on VHS by Columbia House years ago after little more than half of the episodes were released; all of them sustaining unnecessary and tasteless cuts to their original formats. What's even worse is how long it's taken THE UNTOUCHABLES to find preservation on DVD amidst a sea of shows of lesser impact and creative significance, but that's finally changed.

Paramount's new releases are something to be proud of. While the DVD sets do not as of yet boast any bonus features (with the exception of the Desilu/Westinghouse intros for The Scarface Mob), one can surmise that a continued success of the series on DVD may inspire some additions in later releases.

The prints and sound are astoundingly clear; gone are those muddy prints from syndicated 16mm films dubbed to VHS. The DVD menus are replete with decent (but static) artwork with only a few questionable arrangements. It seems they took anything they could out of the vault to put these things together.

No chapter menus, but each commercial break becomes a new chapter, quick and easy to jump to.

The only drawback is the extended WAIT for the next installment of Season 1. We have to wait until DECEMBER 18th for the rest of the season and it's stellar episodes, where the production value heightened and writers finally found their mark (see "The Frank Nitti Story," "One Armed Bandits," or "The Unhired Assassin for proof of a show hitting its stride.)

Bring on Seasons 2 and 3, and yes, even the maligned Season 4. Get Bruce Gordon and the others together for interviews, dig through those archives for the teasers, commercicals, keep Ness and his men coming, tommy guns and brewery-smashing trucks a'blazin!

This is cinematic television worthy of study and enjoyment.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars all i can say is WOW....uber cool black and white Noirish fun!, April 10, 2007

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Richardson "Clarence" (Sunny California USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Untouchables - Season 1, Vol. 1 (DVD)

I am too young to have seen these when they aired ....I would have been about 5!, but I was curious so I purchased this set..
and
1) they are stunning transfers...crisp beautiful black and white noirish masterpieces every one!
2) The intros from Desi Arnaz and Walter Winchell on the pilot episode are nice touches
3) the packaging is sensational! All four DVDs (no flippers!) in a case the size of a normal DVD case that holds one film...so this is a fabulously small shelf space hog!
4) while the whole season would be preferred ....13 hours for about $30...is pretty good value for my money...
5) Robert Stack is and was a very unique talent and the guest stars are a who's who of great character actors and budding stars!