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.

Top Cast

Rod SteigerAl Capone

Fay SpainMaureen Flannery

James GregorySchaefler (narrator)

Martin BalsamMac Keeley, reporter

Nehemiah PersoffJohnny Torrio

Murvyn VyeGeorge 'Bugs' Moran

Robert GistDion O'Banion

Lewis CharlesEarl Weiss