Al Capone (film) the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, with several of Moran's men gunned down in a Chicago garage. Capone and Moran call a truce, but when he learns Keely has been helping a Moran plot to kill him, Capone ends the reporter's life instead. Maureen finally has her fill of Capone's corruption and violence, while Schaefer and the feds find a way to finally put Capone away—on charges of tax evasion, earning him 11 years at Alcatraz. Films based on the lives of real-life gangsters had been banned under the Production Code. This ban was lifted in the late 1950s leading to
Frank J. Wilson take to put notorious gangster and bootlegger Al Capone behind bars. They had been trying to get Capone for quite some time but Eliot Ness, and his group called the Untouchables were unable to succeed in this effort. The two men then decided to bring the Treasury Departments Special Intelligence Unit, headed by Elmer L. Irey to take point on the investigation. Ness and the "Untouchables", working under the Bureau of Prohibition, tried to use brute force to take down Capone. They did manage to take some of Capone's illegal establishments out of the picture, but Ness was not the