Synopsis
The Untouchables (1959) is a crime drama you can watch online on iFILM. Shot in stark black and white for ABC, it follows federal agent Eliot Ness through Prohibition-era Chicago, where he assembles a squad of men no bribe and no threat can move.
Robert Stack plays Ness hard, terse and nearly granite-faced. His crew goes after bootleggers, racketeers and the heirs to Al Capone's empire — raids on warehouses stacked with whiskey, garage shootouts, informants who may turn up in the river by morning. Columnist Walter Winchell's clipped narration carries the show from case to case, giving it the cadence of a 1930s crime-beat newspaper.
The series takes a real man as its starting point, though plenty is dramatized for pace. Stack took home an Emmy for the role, and the show set the template for the gangster TV drama for decades to come. It suits fans of noir classics and stories built around the Capone era. Stream every episode of The Untouchables (1959) online on iFILM.
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