****SPOILERS**** Blond and handsome Robert Redford who played a mentally unbalanced and reality challenged Neo-Nazi in a "Naked City" episode two years earlier outdoes himself here paying the hot shot former collage boy, who graduated top of his class, Jackson Emit Parker who's trying to make it big time in Chigago Frank Nitti's, Bruce Gordon, criminal organization. Brash and sure of himself Parker has his leg man the not too bright Benny Angel, Gerald Hiken, peddle bootleg booze to collage students that's laced with wood alcohol. Not that much of a bright idea on Parker's part in that by blinding and in one case killing a number of collage students he not only has the feds, the Untoucables, on his tail but also the Nitti Mob whom he's doing business for.
It's when things start to get hot for Parker that he fingers or frames the innocent Benny Angle as the person who's peddling the booze that he in fact forces on him and then has him iced as a favor to the Nitti Mob. Parker also takes advantage of desperate out of work family men, this in the depths of the Great Depression, who he gets to peddle his poison by threatening to have their family members murdered if they don't: What a low life!
***SPOILERS*** It's US Government Special Agent Eliot Ness, Robert Stack, who drops a dime on Parker by informing Nitti that he's been hurting his organization by pushing the stuff, bootleg wood alcohol laced booze, that nightmares are made of and it's Nitti's boys who get the dirty job done for Ness by giving Parker a dose of his own medicine if you know what I mean. In the end Parkers big dreams of making the big time in the world crime lasted less then two weeks, from October 16 to October 29 1930, which earned him a big red D, or Dead on Arrival, on his crime school report card.
It's when things start to get hot for Parker that he fingers or frames the innocent Benny Angle as the person who's peddling the booze that he in fact forces on him and then has him iced as a favor to the Nitti Mob. Parker also takes advantage of desperate out of work family men, this in the depths of the Great Depression, who he gets to peddle his poison by threatening to have their family members murdered if they don't: What a low life!
***SPOILERS*** It's US Government Special Agent Eliot Ness, Robert Stack, who drops a dime on Parker by informing Nitti that he's been hurting his organization by pushing the stuff, bootleg wood alcohol laced booze, that nightmares are made of and it's Nitti's boys who get the dirty job done for Ness by giving Parker a dose of his own medicine if you know what I mean. In the end Parkers big dreams of making the big time in the world crime lasted less then two weeks, from October 16 to October 29 1930, which earned him a big red D, or Dead on Arrival, on his crime school report card.