One thing about this episode is true, there was a time where the Capone organization of Chicago gave the Purple Gang of Detroit a very wide berth because they were quite a nasty bunch. Other than that Eliot Ness and his squad of The Untouchables never had anything to do with dealing with the Purple Gang.
The Purple Gang headed here by Steve Cochran at his nastiest did the usual gangster rackets, but added a new and lucrative one depending on who you snatched. They go into the kidnapping game only they kidnap other criminals and depending how far up the food chain they are fixes the ransom demand.
After first snatching Werner Klemperer and getting nothing for their efforts, Cochran snatches Steven Geray who is Klemperer's brother-in-law and a distributor out of his little novelty shop of heroin for Frank Nitti. But as Klemperer was already in the sights of The Untouchables that proves to be the Purple Gang's downfall.
Cochran sets some new lows for villainy in his performance. He adds this Untouchables episode to a gallery of some of the meanest hoods on the big screen and small.
The Purple Gang headed here by Steve Cochran at his nastiest did the usual gangster rackets, but added a new and lucrative one depending on who you snatched. They go into the kidnapping game only they kidnap other criminals and depending how far up the food chain they are fixes the ransom demand.
After first snatching Werner Klemperer and getting nothing for their efforts, Cochran snatches Steven Geray who is Klemperer's brother-in-law and a distributor out of his little novelty shop of heroin for Frank Nitti. But as Klemperer was already in the sights of The Untouchables that proves to be the Purple Gang's downfall.
Cochran sets some new lows for villainy in his performance. He adds this Untouchables episode to a gallery of some of the meanest hoods on the big screen and small.