But when Capone, Scarface himself, gets wind that his operation is under threat, he decides to take matters into his own hands. To aid him in this task, he assembles a crack team of men he is sure will be incorruptible, to identify and sabotage the Capone gang’s distilleries. That is, until Federal Investigator Eliot Ness is tasked with bringing down Capone’s criminal empire. Al Capone’s ruthless gang of thugs are dealing in bootleg booze in blatant defiance of Prohibition laws, and paying off corrupt cops and crooked politicians to stay out of their way. The film would go on to spawn The Untouchables, one of the most widely celebrated TV crime dramas of all time.Ĭhicago, 1929. Originally conceived as a two-part TV pilot, The Scarface Mob is a gritty and thrilling dramatization of Eliot Ness’s account of his hunt for ruthless gangster Al Capone in Chicago during the prohibition.
