The CAPONE story (the entire series) is filmed in gritty black and white with Walter Winchell blaring lurid, tabloid narration at strategic moments. The effect of "death-action" documentary is startling. For its time, "The Untouchables" was a jarringly violent program. Hails of machine-gun fire punctuate episodes like theme music. (In the series, opening teasers characteristically focused on Untouchables speak-easy/brewery raids; mob hits; or brutal, gang-war battle.) Key players making their "bones" in THE SCARFACE MOB are: Bruce Gordon as Capone's chief enforcer, Frank Nitti; Neremiah Persoff as Syndicate book juggler, "Greasy Thumb" Jake Guzzack; and Keenan Whynn as an ex-convict heroically and tragically helping Ness in the city where the mayor (Bill Thompson)was open patron and payrollee of Al Capone. THE SCARFACE MOB is violently paced with Capone's release from prison into immediate confrontation with Ness and his agents. St Valentines Day and gun battles galore fill an action-packed two hours that brings Capone to his knees in the ironically "lame" income tax conviction that imprisons him for 11 years; part of which was spent in Alcatraz specifically designed for Public Enemy, Scarface Al. Fans of the series will no doubt miss the jagged, fusion-jazz theme song that was The Untouchables anthem. By the end of the series' run, Eliot Ness and his men had jailed just about every notorius hoodlum who ever hiked a sub-machine gun. The Untouchables became "equal oportunity destroyers" of gangsters of every ilk and pinstripe. But, this opening episode (based on the book by Oscar Frawley and Eliot Ness....said to contain numerous mythical "exaggerations"), THE SCARFACE MOB is exciting, action-packed drama about a powerful mobster and the extraordinary lawmen who went after him in violent quest which few "stories" match in reality or fiction. It's a piece of televison "literature" that eminently deserves its legendary acclaim......