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The Scarface Mob (1959)

The Scarface Mob poster
Directed by
Phil Karlson
Genre
crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 42m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A federal agent leads a squad to take down Al Capone's criminal empire in 1930s Chicago. They use aggressive tactics to gather evidence and put the mob boss behind bars.

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What happens

The Scarface Mob is an American film noir crime film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Robert Stack. It consists of the pilot episodes for the TV series The Untouchables (1959) that originally screened as a two-part installment of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse on April 20 and 27 1959. The episodes were cut together and released theatrically as a stand-alone feature outside America in 1959 and inside the US in 1962. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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