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.

Rod Steiger
as Al Capone

Fay Spain
as Maureen Flannery

James Gregory
as Schaefler (narrator)

Martin Balsam
as Mac Keeley, reporter

Nehemiah Persoff
as Johnny Torrio

Murvyn Vye
as George 'Bugs' Moran

Robert Gist
as Dion O'Banion

Lewis Charles
as Earl Weiss

Joe De Santis
as Big Jim Colosimo

Sandy Kenyon
as Bones Corelli
John Chard
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. Al...