User Reviews

This is a very unique episode of "The Untouchables", though it doesn't seem that unusual for the first half. Initially the show is about some punks smuggling in champagne and how these people start preying on each other after a Ness raid. First Marty Baltin (Michael Constantine) threatens to kill Charley Miller (Murray Hamilton) and then Charley ends up threatening a blind guy, Ira Bauer (Richard Conte). Now you'd think the blind guy would be pretty pathetic and defenseless...and Charley makes that mistake. However, Bauer is a very devious guy who not only has no trouble killing but he thinks crime is like a big game. And, when Ness finally realizes that Bauer is the kingpin, instead of denying it, he takes it as a challenge...almost like a villain toying with Mr. Bond! It's all very interesting and Ness is forced to eventually even have a shootout with a blind guy!!

Overall, this is certainly an unusual but memorable episode. Believable...maybe not. But it is really cool and fun to watch.

Champagne is flowing from the speakeasys of Chicago and The Untouchables trace it from Michael Constantine's joint back to a wholesale seafood shipper in Boston played by Richard Conte by way of Murray Hamilton. As The Untouchables try to prove the connection, Hamilton gets itchy as he's in hock to the bookies for a lot of money. He kills Constantine and that sets the wheels in motion to bring down the entire smuggling operation.

Richard Conte who never gave a bad performance in anything really stars in this episode as a blind man who built his own business. But selling seafood won't get him the big bucks he needs. He and Ness have a showdown in his ice house with the lights off. No advantage to a seeing man and every to a blind man who knows every foot in the place.

A good episode with a terrific performance by Richard Conte.