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Starring Robert Stack
Pilot - Desilu Playhouse: The Untouchables aka The Scarface Mob (ABC) (1959)
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 [--] THE UNTOUCHABLES (pilot)
part of Desilu Playhouse no.22 (pt1 &2)
27Mar59 (part 1) 10Apr59.(part 2) on CBS
This was shown theatrically in many countries as
THE SCARFACE MOB  (Theatrical Title)
Untouchables pilot episode # 0 SCARFACE MOB (opening credits)
Desilu Productions, Inc.
Executive Producer Bert Granet
Produced by Quinn Martin
Associate Producer Jack Aldworth
Based on the book "The Untouchables" by Eliot Ness & Oscar Fraley
Written by Paul Monash
Directed by Phil Karlson
Cast (in credits order) complete 
Robert Stack .... Eliot Ness
Keenan Wynn .... Joe Fuselli
Barbara Nichols  .... Brandy LaFrance
Pat Crowley  .... Betty Anderson
Bill Williams  .... Martin Flaherty
Joe Mantell .... George Ritchie
Bruce Gordon  .... Frank Nitti
Neville Brand .... Al Capone
Peter Leeds .... LaMarr Kane
Eddie Firestone .... Eric Hansen
Robert Osterloh .... Tom Kopka
Paul Dubov .... Jack Rossman
Abel Fernández .... William Youngfellow
Paul Picerni  .... Tony Liguri
John Beradino .... Johnny Giannini (as John Baradino)
Wolfe Barzell .... Picco
Frank Wilcox .... Beecher Asbury
Peter Mamakos .... Bomber Belcastro
Wally Cassell .... Phil D'Andrea
Herman Rudin .... Mops Volpe
Richard Benedict (I) .... 'Fur' Sammons
Bern Hoffman .... Greasy Thumb Guzik
Frank DeKova .... Jimmy Napoli
James Westerfield .... Ed Marriatt
Walter Winchell .... Narration (voice)
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Original music by Wilbur Hatch
Cinematography by Charles Straumer
Film Editing by Robert L. Swanson
Art Direction by Ralph Berger and Frank T. Smith
Set Decoration by andy Grace
Make-up Artist Edwin Butterworth
Hair Stlist Lorraine Roberson
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Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Vincent McEveety .... assistant director
Sound Department
Sound Glen Glenn
Sound Mixer Cam McCulloch
Other crew
Howard A. Anderson .... photographic effects
Desi Arnaz .... executive in charge of production
Jack Baker  .... choreographer
Jerry Bos .... wardrober
Maria P. Donovan .... wardrobe (as Maria Donovan)
Charles West  .... property master
Synopsis:
Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped
put 1920s' Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison.

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