The Untouchables - Season Two, Vol. 1
by Don Medford, Herman Hoffman, John Peyser, Paul Wendkos, Stuart Rosenberg
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Actor: James Westerfield, Neville Brand, Paul Bruce, Robert Stack, Walter WinchellDirector: Don Medford, Herman Hoffman, John Peyser, Paul Wendkos, Stuart Rosenberg
Brand: FERNANDEZ,ABEL
Writer: Adrian Spies
Writer: Charles O'Neal
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 806 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
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DVD Review: BLAZING HOT ACTION
Summary: 5 Stars
In Season Two an example of one of the many powerful dramas is the story called "Augie 'the Banker' Ciamino". Focusing on a new immigrant family named Raineri, an aging father living with his son who has a wife and young daughter. The father owns a small bakery, while his son is a bookkeeper. Ciamino is a Syndicate leader who heads illegal whisky distillation, forcing small immgrant familes to make bootleg whisky in their homes and carry it to his facility in root beer bottles. The father sees the horror going on around him as any of his neighbors who tries to resist Ciamino is brutally beaten or murdered. He suspects his own son is mixed up in it somehow as his son brings home records and books that he locks up in a cabinet at night. He begs his son to quit whatever he's involved in, and they have quite a heated argument over it with his son insisting he's only a bookkeeper. Eventually the father discovers it's true. His son works for Ciamino keeping records of his criminal enterprise. He calls his son while his son is in the presence of Ciamino and his thug hitman and tells him over the phone that he is taking those record books to Elliot Ness. Well, the bad guys overhear what was said and force him to tell his father to wait , that he'll be right over to go with him to Ness, but in reality the crooks are going with him to kill his father, and he knows it. In a heartbreaking scene he saves his father at the cost of his own life, but then it's a desperate run as his father tries to weave his way through the back alleys of chicago looking for someone who can help him get to the police while clutching ledgers and records that could indict Ciamino and put him away for good, Ciamino's hired killers chasing him every step of the way. As in many of the episodes, the story is less about Elliot Ness fighting criminals and more about the struggle and drama of the individuals and families fighting to preserve themselves against brutal criminals.
Season two of The Untouchables is powerful stuff. It's every bit as intense and dramatic as season one, maybe even more so. Love the season opener with Elizabeth Montgomery ( Samantha Stephens from Bewitched ) as a beautiful nightclub showgirl plotting one mobster against another for her own profit. Even tough guy Elliot Ness seems to melt just a little under her stunning gaze. There's a scene with both of them standing together in the fog at the docks, and with a smile and a look in her eyes that would melt the arctic glaciers she invites him for a weekend alone with her in the mountains. There's a long pause before he answers, and we might be forgiven for thinking that the clean-cut married man, super good-guy Ness, actually pondered it in his head for a moment before saying "Sorry, I can't". Some of the hottest women ever to grace the television screen of any era show up in this series. I have to recommend that you buy this set of disks. Also, I notice some other people have stated that they don't like the editing of the fade-outs where commercials would normally have appeared. Frankly I have no idea what they are talking about. I can't find anything thing wrong with this set. The editing looks fine to me and the stories are presented in full. Everything looks great. The disks are in great condition and the video and audio are sharp and clear. Totally enjoyable.
- Mike S.
Description of The Untouchables - Season Two, Vol. 1
No Description Available.Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 18-MAR-2008
Media Type: DVD
In Billy Wilder?s classic, The Apartment, a sleazy corporate exec tries to schedule an after-hours tryst with one of the company?s switchboard operators. "Thursday?" she protests. "But that?s The Untouchables with Bob Stack." "So we?ll watch it at the apartment," the exec placates her. "Big deal." As Wilder?s shout-out indicates, The Untouchables was a big deal. Hot off Robert Stack?s Emmy-winning performance as Treasury Agent Elliot Ness, The Untouchables blasted its way into the Nielsen Top Ten in its second season, which begins in a blaze of glory with the episode, "The Rusty Heller Story," featuring Elizabeth Montgomery in her Emmy-nominated role as the "no good" showgirl who plays two mobsters and a corrupt lawyer against each other (Bewitched fans will note that the lawyer with whom she gets very chummy is portrayed by David White, the future Larry Tate!). More than four decades later, with its film noir sensibility, smart-writing, hard-boiled dialogue, and plenty of what Rusty Heller calls, "boom-boom action," The Untouchables is still as potent (but not as deadly) as a bottle of ginger jake. The 16 episodes contained on this four-disc set tell some great (albeit suspect) stories of the kingpins, criminals, and hoodlums who thought they had "the guts" to move in on Al Capone?s tottering empire. Among the most arresting are "The Big Train," a gripping two-parter featuring Neville Brand reprising his role as Capone, who plots his escape while en route to Alcatraz, "Jamaica Ginger," featuring James Coburn and Brian Keith as a couple of "torpedoes" hired by a gangster to kill his rival, a plan complicated when one falls in love with a schoolteacher, and "The Purple Gang," about Detroit?s feared gang that kidnaps an underling (Werner "Colonel Klink" Klemperer) with Capone ties. Joining Ness?s incorruptible squad this season is Paul Picerni as Agent Lee Hobson, but it?s Stack?s show all the way. He gets to slap wiseguys around ("Answer the question, punk") and deliver the best lines. When one goon tells him he has no respect for the dead, Ness replies, "Sometimes, even less for the living." His relentless war against the underworld sometimes comes at a terrible price. When one innocent woman is gunned down, the killers taunt, "Satisfied, Mr. Ness?" But, of course, that just steels his resolve. As for this set, we?re satisfied, even without any bonus features, and the now common (and criminal) practice of season splitting. --Donald Liebenson
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