Writing
Apr 18, 1903
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Eliot Ness
Writing
Biography
Eliot Ness (April 19, 1903-May 16, 1957) Was an american prohibition agent who in 1956 collaborated with writer Oscar Fraley to write a book that dramatized his acts of law enforcement during the 1930s. After his death, this portrayal of his life would be adapted into the two feature films The Scarface Mob(1959), which served as the pilot to a long running TV series, and The Untouchables(1987).
Feature Films (2)
January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime underworld with brute force and corrupting many touchable individuals. Until the day the head of the Untouchables Brigade, Eliot Ness, entered the scene. Since then, a cruel battle between the two of them began, a battle that ended in trial, conviction, disease, insanity and death.
