The Untouchables
90-Proof Dame
Season 2, Episode 32 · Aired 1961-06-08
Synopsis
Nate Kester is a burlesque theatre operator who decides to branch out into the lucrative brandy business. He is producing his own brandy, of very poor quality, and using a fancy French label to try and pass it off as de Bouverais cognac. He realizes that if his scheme is to work, he will have to ensure that the real stuff is unavailable for comparison to the rot gut he will be marketing. He manages to destroy the principal supplier of the real stuff but Etienne de Bouverais himself comes to Chicago to put a new wholesaler in place.
In the series
This episode is part of The Untouchables (1959–1963) on ABC.
Eliot Ness vs. Capone's Chicago — machine-gun morality plays in sharp suits.
Key cast
- Robert Stack as Eliot Ness
- Nicholas Georgiade as Agent Rossi
- Paul Picerni as Agent Youngfellow
- Bruce Gordon as Frank Nitti