The Empty Chair
- Episode aired Oct 15, 1959
- 52m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
184
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With Capone in prison, Frank Nitti tries to grab the open top spot in the empire. But Capone's bookkeeper is giving him a run for his money.With Capone in prison, Frank Nitti tries to grab the open top spot in the empire. But Capone's bookkeeper is giving him a run for his money.With Capone in prison, Frank Nitti tries to grab the open top spot in the empire. But Capone's bookkeeper is giving him a run for his money.
Walter Winchell
- Narrator
- (voice)
Don Anderson
- Policeman
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
John Barton
- Passerby on Street
- (uncredited)
Audrey Betz
- Passerby on Street
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaNehemiah Persoff was no stranger to playing gangsters. One of his best-known roles is the crime boss Little Bonaparte in the movie Some Like It Hot (1959).
- GoofsOne of the brewery raids shows the truck with battering ram but the negative has been flipped, as you can see the truck driver and the accompanying sedan have the drivers on the right side of the vehicles. Another raid shows Keenan Wynn in the truck driver's seat, but he was killed in the pilot "The Scarface Mob."
- Quotes
Agent Enrico Rossi: Mr. Ness... I want to do more than testify.
Featured review
"EXTRA! EXTRA! Al Capone Sentenced To Federal Prison!" So Who's Gonna Supply our Booze?
With the great success of the two part Untouchables presentation on the CBS Network's Desilu Playhouse, the world cried for more "G-Men" on TV. And, Presto, THE UNTOUCHABLES was born! The main problem with launching the new series lied with the fact that the Desilu Playhouse presentation dealt with the long and tedious investigation leading up to the Trial & Sentencing of Al Capone on an Income Tax evasion charge. What would the series do to continue the story? Well, a lot of embellishing goes into a Hollywood version of occurrences, but one thing for sure is true. Life goes on and so does crime. The ABC TV Network welcomed series with open arms.
THE EMPTY CHAIR is a neatly done hour episode that starts with Capone being sent off to prison. Elliot Ness observes Capone being taken from the Court House to his transportation to prison. Was this now the end of lawlessness in Chicago, the U.S.A. and the world? Well of course not.The UNTOUCHABLES Series would be all about Gangland's transformation after the Capone verdict. Who would run things in the organization (in Chicasgo Lingo we call it "The Outfit").
In the initial installment, THE EMPTY CHAIR, we have a lot of the characters from the Desilu Playhouse 2 Parter*, including Barbara Nichols as a former Strip Tease Artist, now long on morning her lost husband. Bruce Gordon reprised his role as Capone Lieutennant, Frank Nitti, who was known as "The Enforcer". Only now, Nitti's ambition leads him to start making a power grab for the Top Spot in the Syndicate.
Opposition comes West Side Gangster, Jake Guzik (Neamiah Piersoff). Instead of guns and muscle, he uses a pencil as he is and has been the bookkeeper for the Capone mob. He convinces Nitti that he should call off the war and use brains and the protection of hiding behind legitimate business.
The episode goes on to continue this unending war to keep America dry, a temporary platitude at best, for in a couple of years, The Volstead Act would be repealed and National Prohibition would be a memory.
The Series brought us adventures in fighting the underworld in Chicago. THE EMPTY CHAIR was a top rate episode and had everything that one could want to inaugurate this series.
THE EMPTY CHAIR is a neatly done hour episode that starts with Capone being sent off to prison. Elliot Ness observes Capone being taken from the Court House to his transportation to prison. Was this now the end of lawlessness in Chicago, the U.S.A. and the world? Well of course not.The UNTOUCHABLES Series would be all about Gangland's transformation after the Capone verdict. Who would run things in the organization (in Chicasgo Lingo we call it "The Outfit").
In the initial installment, THE EMPTY CHAIR, we have a lot of the characters from the Desilu Playhouse 2 Parter*, including Barbara Nichols as a former Strip Tease Artist, now long on morning her lost husband. Bruce Gordon reprised his role as Capone Lieutennant, Frank Nitti, who was known as "The Enforcer". Only now, Nitti's ambition leads him to start making a power grab for the Top Spot in the Syndicate.
Opposition comes West Side Gangster, Jake Guzik (Neamiah Piersoff). Instead of guns and muscle, he uses a pencil as he is and has been the bookkeeper for the Capone mob. He convinces Nitti that he should call off the war and use brains and the protection of hiding behind legitimate business.
The episode goes on to continue this unending war to keep America dry, a temporary platitude at best, for in a couple of years, The Volstead Act would be repealed and National Prohibition would be a memory.
The Series brought us adventures in fighting the underworld in Chicago. THE EMPTY CHAIR was a top rate episode and had everything that one could want to inaugurate this series.
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- redryan64
- Jun 12, 2007
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- Runtime52 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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