During those years of Prohibition on The Untouchables and in real life the gangsters were constantly coming with new and innovative to manufacture, market, and transport their illegal liquor. In this episode Simon Oakland plays one of the enforcers for the organization and they've made a deal with the president of a bankrupt railroad played by Steven Hill for their own trains to transport the bootleg hooch.
They've even got an abandoned spur line for their own distribution point. But Oakland who has a reputation as a tough guy is cowed into submission by Hill who proves more ruthless than any gangster. As Hill sees it, he'll do whatever it takes to save his business and livelihood That includes murder.
Frank Wilcox who has a semi-recurring role as Beecher Asbury the US Attorney for Chicago knows Hill's family from way back. He actually runs some interference for Hill with Robert Stack. But he's convinced soon enough that Hill is a man with hidden depths of danger.
Nice performance in this by the future symbol of Law And Order, Adam Schiff.
They've even got an abandoned spur line for their own distribution point. But Oakland who has a reputation as a tough guy is cowed into submission by Hill who proves more ruthless than any gangster. As Hill sees it, he'll do whatever it takes to save his business and livelihood That includes murder.
Frank Wilcox who has a semi-recurring role as Beecher Asbury the US Attorney for Chicago knows Hill's family from way back. He actually runs some interference for Hill with Robert Stack. But he's convinced soon enough that Hill is a man with hidden depths of danger.
Nice performance in this by the future symbol of Law And Order, Adam Schiff.
