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A heroic take on the story of Eliot Ness and his team taking down Al Capone, inspired by Ness’s posthumously published book punched up by co-author Oscar Fraley and the TV series that followed, so it’s printing the legend of the legend of the legend. (And another series followed, the legend of...)
It made Kevin Costner a star and got Sean Connery a belated Oscar as well as cementing the cinematic version of Capone with Robert de Niro. It’s probably best known for the steps sequence inspired by The Battleship Potemkin. Spoiled here in a pretty fun A. V. Club location tour.
Of course it makes me want to run a game about super-cool Prohibition era agents and gangsters.
But what kind ...?
The kind where you don’t bring a knife to a gun fight…
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