Eliot Ness’ Hard-Boiled Monologue | Scenes from The Untouchables

📺 Read our episode review and breakdown here: In a rare hard-boiled monologue from the otherwise taciturn Eliot Ness, he dresses Frank O’Dean down despite being held at gunpoint. An engrossing, action-packed hour filled with great performances by Robert Stack and Harry Guardino, “One-Armed Bandits“ is also one of the program’s most successful endeavors at humanizing Ness and adding shades of gray to its heavies. O’Dean is remorseful and conflicted and Ness is charitable and compassionate without losing his edge. The sense of history between Ness and O’Dean is well characterized and supporting characters like Julian Glass add to pathos to the proceedings. ABOUT THE UNTOUCHABLES RETROSPECTIVE Praised for its quality and famous for its drama, The Untouchables television show (1959-1963) roared like the decade it portrayed in grand, theatrical style. A controversial and Emmy award-winning series, its legacy in film and television ha