Al Capone

“His True Shocking Story...Filmed with Bullet Force!”

6.6(54)19591h 44m

ActionAdventureCrimeDrama

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.

Director

Richard Wilson

Budget

$1.0M

Revenue

$2.5M

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Cast

Rod Steiger

Al Capone

Fay Spain

Maureen Flannery

James Gregory

Schaefler (narrator)

Martin Balsam

Mac Keeley, reporter

Nehemiah Persoff

Johnny Torrio

Murvyn Vye

George 'Bugs' Moran

Robert Gist

Dion O'Banion

Lewis Charles

Earl Weiss

Joe De Santis

Big Jim Colosimo

Sandy Kenyon

Bones Corelli

Raymond Bailey

Lawyer Brancato

Al Ruscio

Tony Genaro

Reviews

1 review

John Chard

10y ago

7.0

Nobody who's smart goes hungry in Chicago. Al Capone is directed by Richard Wilson and written by Malvin Wald and Henry F. Greenberg. It stars Rod Steiger, Martin Balsam, Nehemiah Persoff, Fay Spain, Joe DeSantis and Murvyn Vye. Music is by David Raksin and cinematography by Lucien Ballard. Alphonse Gabriel Capone, it's a name synonymous with gangsters of 1920s America, and of course of cine...