Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
Dealers in Death. A revealing look at the lives of such criminal luminaries as John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd and Bruno Hauptmann, exposing the characters, their crimes, the social-political environment that fostered and the folklore that followed them. Narrated by Broderick Crawford.
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
Stills (including mugshot) of "Scarface" Alfonse Capone (Al Capone). Stills of "The Enforcer" Frank Nitti, "Greasy Thumb" Jack Guzik, and "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn.
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
Great Roaring Twenties/gangster montage: CUs machine guns & pistols firing, sometimes into the camera; thugs tossing rocks into window of store; gangsters with rifles in car at night; beer barrels being shot up, destroyed; a car is run off the road by another car; bootleg liquor being destroyed. CU business card for protection agency (aka the mob). MSs feds with seized slot machines (illegal gambling). MSs white men drinking at bar. Shots of hidden spigot on truck full of bootleg liquor; the feds drain it of its contents. Prohibition.
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
The Mona Lisa Club; CUs "Queen of the Speakeasies" Texas Guinan. Shots inside posh nightclubs: well-to-do white folks dance, drink, have a swell time. Prohibition, speakeasy.
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
Still photos of Al Capone.
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
Excellent undercover hidden camera newsreel of payoffs (bribes, kickbacks) being made between citizens and the mob; great shots of a police officer (cop) taking a bribe on the street in broad daylight!
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
Al Capone at racetrack with cronies.
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
Breweries being destroyed, beer barrels being broken open with axes. More shots of guns and automatic rifles being fired (allegedly by gangsters). Prohibition
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
Still photo of Earl Weiss dead in street. Stills of gang funerals
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
1930 People line the streets as coffin is carried out at the funeral of the Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle.
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
Guns and automatic rifles being fired (allegedly by gangsters).
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
1929 Still photos of the St. Valentines Day Massacre. Stills of Bugs Moran, Al Capone.
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
Police officers and reporters arriving at crime scene.
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
Men destroying bottles of bootleg liquor, smashing them against a wall. Prohibition
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
CU license plate: FBI, US Department of Justice. CU FBI badge. MS FBI agents patting down (frisking) men.
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
Push to end Prohibition. "End Prohibition - We Want Beer" parades in Washington DC and New York City (Mayor Jimmy Walker on route).
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
NYC Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia delivers fiery anti-Prohibition speech to camera: " for a howdown on Prohibition. 145 members of the House of Representatives, representing over 14 million people, have petitioned Congress to re-submit the question of Prohibition to the American people. After 11 years of dismal failure of the so-called nobel experiment, we maintain that the American people have a right to decide finally on the question."
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
United States Capitol building. Franklin D. Roosevelt ends prohibition with the signing of the Beer Bill. Shots of horse-drawn beer trucks. Shots of packed taverns and bars. A bathing beauty dives into a barrel of beer in a promotional stunt. End of Prohibition
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
J. Edgar Hoover in office. Shots of FBI agents going through files and fingerprints.
Dealers in Death Part 1 - Al Capone and Prohibition
Al Capone exiting courthouse. Exterior of Alcatraz prison, aka The Rock. Al Capone funeral in Chicago.