Capone, written and directed by Josh Trank of The Fantastic Four fame, isn’t a gangster film so much as it is a tearjerker. It is set when America’s most infamous gangster is 47 and his mind is rotting from dementia. Beneath the family tragedy is a national mystery. Whatever happened to the millions of dollars Capone stashed before he went to jail for tax evasion? Geraldo Rivera tried to answer this in the run-up to his 1986 TV special, The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults. But when he opened Capone’s secret vault in the Lexington Hotel live on TV, there was nothing inside.
As the new film shows, Rivera, like Capone, didn’t know where to look. In her book Uncle Al Capone: The Untold Story from Inside His Family, Deirdre Marie Capone says she knew the vault would be empty when she was approached to appear on Rivera’s show.
As the new film shows, Rivera, like Capone, didn’t know where to look. In her book Uncle Al Capone: The Untold Story from Inside His Family, Deirdre Marie Capone says she knew the vault would be empty when she was approached to appear on Rivera’s show.
- 5/13/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
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