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David Brian plays Dink Conway, the sophisticated owner of a St. Louis club. However, down deep he's just a thug and using his muscle, Whitey (Leo Gordon), he is intent on running the city. After one of the local mobsters and his buddies pull of a very violent and brazen robbery of securities, Dink helps himself to the loot and kills off the robbers. However, Ness intercepts the guy who is trying to dump these securities and is intent on finding out who is behind all this. In the meantime, Conway and his friends create mayhem, murder and exercise over control the local police chief.

While David Brian doesn't look like the gangster type by any stretch, he and Gordon are quite nice in this episode. You might also recognize Brian from other roles...such as the weird Nazi-like leader on the "Star Trek" episode "Patterns of Force" or any one of dozens of other appearances on TV shows through the 1950s and into the 80s. As for Gordon, it's even more likely you've seen him as he has nearly 200 IMDb credits...not just on television but films as well.

All in all, this is a very good episode of the series made even more so by some very vivid murders and a plot that never is dull in the least!

The best part of this "Untouchables" TV episode was seeing some old faces again. For instance, it was good to see actor David Brian....someone I haven't seen on film in many decades. He plays "Dink" Conway, the main mob boss of the St. Louis underworld and owner of "The Jockey Club."

Brian was a legitimate tough-acting, tough-talking, tough-looking guy, meaning he was credible playing a hood. I used to see him a lot on TV. He played a lot of TV roles in the 1950s and 1960s with his career ending in the mid '70s.

Also, it's always great to see and hear Percy Helton. That may not be a name you'll recognize but if you're near my age you'll certainly recognize his high, raspy voice and you'll recognize his face you when you see him. He's a little mousy, rotund guy with that very distinctive voice. Like Brian, he was in a ton of TV shows in the 1950s and 1960s. Unfortunately, Percy only had a small role here, as "Mr. Meyer"

The story is about competing crooks in St. Louis and how Elliot Ness and his gang try to break them up. It's standard fare, story-wise, which is why I highlighted some of the actors instead.

Eliot Ness and The Untouchables are working in St. Louis to take down a syndicate kingpin played by David Brian. He and his chief enforcer Leo Gordon have brought a certain amount of order to crime in that city with Brian a respectable front and Gordon supplying some really mean muscle for the dirty work.

One of the hoodlums they brought into their operation pulls a mail truck robbery that nets him cash and negotiable securities. Brian and Gordon cut themselves in and then quietly eliminate all who could finger them. Of course Robert Stack does catch up with them because of a talkative landlady played by Lillian Bronson.

Anthony George joined the cast of The Untouchables in this episode and he's got a long standing personal score with Brian dating back from when he was not so respectable.

I think the writers forgot in this episode they were dealing with the Depression and anything to do with stockbrokers was not a paying proposition. Nobody would be robbing securities because of the Stock Market Crash.

Gordon and Brian are a pair of nasty villains though and you love seeing them get taken down.