I'm a big time Untouchables fan, seen them all time and again ... and still watch it in 2021. They just don't match any other ... they are one of a kind ... a classic, indeed! ....
I use to sneak my little 5inc TV and watch under the covers at ten pm I ended up getting my butt kicked, but I still have a fondness for the Untouchables, Elliot Ness.
Oh yeah? Which episode is the one where the girls murder the gangster by stopping him to death with their high heels? I would like to see that episode again.
I never let truth get in the way of a great story. Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti was my absolute favorite Gangster. Great series...great stories...great post.
Someone in Chicago who knew both men said that Bruce Gordon did a better Frank Nitti than Frank Nitti himself. When "in character," he was the archetype Chicago gangster.
@@andybreglia9431 Great post. I was a young kid when "Untouchables" was on tv. I was convinced Mr Gordon was the real Frank Nitti ~ such a superb and realistic portrayal!
@@andybreglia9431 I found this blurb online: "[Frank Nitt] Portrayed memorably by Bruce Gordon in just 23 episodes [of Untouchables] as well as the Desilu Playhouse, Gordon brought to the Nitti character a single‑mindedly evil, unforgivingly treacherous yet somehow likable, even enjoyable persona unmatched by any other in television history apart from oil baron J. R. Ewing of the series Dallas." That's quite a statement.
Bruce Gordon was perfect for the role of Frank Nitti. When Frank Nitti dies , he is with another great character actor , Frank de Kova, who played gangsters and later the Chief of the Hekowi Tribe on F Troop
Frank Nitti was always my favorite character on The Untouchables(Good or Bad) and I almost cried when Nitti fell into the subway tracks. R.I.P.: Bruce Gordon, The Real Frank Nitti 😢
DesiLu aka Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball were both television pioneers and icons that were way ahead of their time with classics such as I Love LUCY THE UNTOUCHABLES AND STAR TREK As well and being crowned as The Comedic Queen Of Comedy. May The Both Of Them Rest In Peace.✝Amen!
Yes I know. Chief Wild Eagle of the Hekawi Tribe. They also had guest stars in that tribe like Jamie Farr and Edward Everett Horton, the narrator of Fractured Fairy Tales in those Bullwinkle Cartoons.
The big - and fatal - mistake made by Nitti here is to wear a light-coloured suit instead of his trademark dark pin-striped suit. That's the real reason why he got the thumbs-down. And even his inexhaustible revolver magazine couldn't save him in the end.
I work as a summer groundskeeper in Mt. Carmel Cemetery, west of Chicago, where Nitti is buried under his real name, "Frank Nitto." Unfortunately, because of our ongoing fascination with the old mobsters, too many people come to Mt. Carmel as "gangster tourists," rather than as pilgrims paying their respects to the dearly departed. This is particularly true for Al Capone, who is buried in a section near Nitto/Nitti. So many people trample over Capone's grave, we have trouble maintaining the grass there. Many honorable people also are laid to rest in Mt. Carmel, including 11 of Chicago's Catholic bishops, in or near the "Bishops' Mausoleum" in the middle of the cemetery.
@@Wilfredoviquez As someone who is there every weekday (during the summer), there is no difference between tending the grave of a mafioso, of a priest or nun, or of any of the other adult faithful departed interred at Mt. Carmel. The truly sad graves are those of the many children buried there. This is true at any cemetery.
@@KutWrite Actually, there is a fence surrounding Mt. Carmel. People do not sneak in at night when the cemetery is closed. Visitors (including the gangster tourists) come during the day when the cemetery is open. True visitors come to pay their respects to their departed loved ones. The gangster tourists just come to gawk and take pictures, trampling over Capone's gravesite in the process.
This is another one of my favorites: The Frank Nitty Story…I like him better than Capone.. But they’re both great actors. Anyone out there, send me the full episode. I’m gonna get the collection: The ones with Robert Stack is the best!.
Frank Nitti shot himself at a railroad yard just blocks from his house after heavy drinking in the morning after church. The next day he was to appear in front of a Grand Jury. Hollywood likes to change the story of his death like being pushed off a building by Elliot Ness in the 1987 movie The Untouchables. Ness killed himself in Riverdale, IL.
Actually, Frank Nitti (supposedly) commited suicide in a railroad yard. I say supposedly because the coroner's report indicated Nitti shot himself in the head ... twice! That had to be the most determined suicide in history.
No! He shot himself at 26th and Harlem on Railroad Tracks,not a yard, behind the gas station that is still there! Pulled the trigger, nothing. 2 guys saw him,and yelled, he pulled the trigger and it fired! His clothes and gun are in The North Riverside Police Station!
and according to WIKI, its was THREE shots... "he first shot fired by Nitti's unsteady hand missed and passed through his fedora. The second bullet slammed into the right side of his jaw and exited through the top of his head, taking a lock of his hair with it and leaving the tuft protruding from the hole in the crown of the fedora. The final, fatal bullet entered behind Nitti's right ear and lodged in the top of his skull. Police Chief Allen Rose of North Riverside, rushing to the scene with a sergeant and several beat patrolmen, recognized Nitti immediately. An autopsy by William McNalley, coroner's toxicologist, showed that Nitti's blood alcohol level was 0.23. A coroner's jury ruled the following day that Nitti "committed suicide while temporarily insane and in a despondent frame of mind"
@@robertbrooks7001, Fact- Frank Nitti beside the railroad tracks attempted to shoot himself in the head twice and flinched. The third shot hit his target with the barrel placed squarely upon his head. Frank couldn't bare to leave a task, even his own suicide, undone.
Francesco Raffaele Nitto, alias Frank Nitti, murió el 19 de Marzo de 1943, tenía 57 años, y se tiró un tiro en la cabeza, en algunas películas dicen que Ness lo mató, eso no es verdad, Nitti estuvo preso durante unos meses y sufrió mucho esa reclusión, se mató solamente de pensar que volvería a la cárcel. Fue muy despiadado con su gente, los trataba muy mal. En este episodio Nitti se cae a las vías del tren, no es verdad, se mató si en unas vías del tren pero con una pistola. No se porque dicen que Ness lo mató. Brian de Palma tendría que haber indagado en la vida de este ganster, para decir la verdad en su película.
My favorite part of this finale is how the faceless mob gives Nitti the death verdict!👎(Even though historians have debunked the Roman origin of the “thumbs down” sign!)
Bruce Gordon hace el personaje a la perfección, se por comentarios de la época que indagó en la vida del ganster cuando firmaba los intocables con Robert Stack, para introducirse lo más fiable al personaje. Un gran actor Bruce, lo único que Bruce era muy alto y fornido, y el verdadero Nitti era más bien pequeño. Cabe destacar también la excelencia de Robert Stack en el papel de Eliot Ness, formidable, no habrá otro como el. Brian de Palma lo puso como un ridículo a Ness en su película, no era así, tenía un título universitario en Economía, y luego realizó un master en criminología. Ness era muy inteligente, y también muy mujeriego, se casó 3 veces y adoptó un hijo en su último matrimonio. En Los Intocables de Stack lo muestran a Ness como fiel a su esposa y padre de una niña.
Frank Nitti was a real person who was on his way to prison when he shot himself, there was an eyewitness to his last moments, and I'm not aware of any serious alternate accounts. That said, this is at least based on what really happened -- turned to something more action-packed and dramatic for the cameras -- rather than "fell, screaming, off of a courthouse after a gunfight".
Nitti didn't get hit by a train+ as said in the episode by Walter Winchell. Witness said he shot himself. A really good episode but lots of fiction as it mentioned.
I have always been fascinated by the gangsters of the 20s and30s in those days if you messed up either you take your. Own life or the mob would so here we are I believe that Frank nittis suicide was something other why do I believe that because on that day Frank did a few things that were very out of character according to his wife and like every mobster everything changes with time within thefamilys. I seen from galante to castellano to Messina and others meet violent ends I could go on and on but to much is not good
The Untouchable version of Frank Nitti didn't look like he was married where as in the real version of this person was twice married with one in 1917 and with another woman who was twenty year younger and possibly well acquainted with the American underworld. If this scene was redone, Ann would receive a phone call from Nitti's peers and goes to Nitti and tells him the meeting appointment. After the meeting, he comes and goes to bed. Later, he tells his wife about meeting and she tells him that she can't help him and she's going to church. He tells her that he going out and take his long walk to his final destiny😈
Ha! Yes, he does -- and a low rent Nitti at that! Before Star Trek, Anthony Caruso got to ham it up as a Nitti knock-off in "Syndicate Sanctuary." Check out our review of that episode here: theuntouchables.co/syndicate-sanctuary/
Bruce Gordon played the ‘enforcer’ Frank Nitti in the ABC television series The Untouchables. It was Anthony Caruso who played Bela Oxmyx in Star Trek’s ‘A piece of the action’ episode. “Put him on ice!”
Elly is the second woman Nitti has killed. In the the empty chair Nitti recklessly kills a 16 year old girl in a barber show while gunning down his fellow comrades. Why did he killed them?---He explained it and never admitted to the crime.
The Untouchables is a great tv series, but don't get your history from it: One huge example is that Frank Nitti committed suicide. A suicide would be less of a good drama, not really something tv wanted to touch at that time, etc. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Nitti Up until just recently, every episode of this series (as far as I could tell) was on TH-cam. Now, it's not 😞
I'm a big time Untouchables fan, seen them all time and again ... and still watch it in 2021. They just don't match any other ... they are one of a kind ... a classic, indeed! ....
I use to sneak my little 5inc TV and watch under the covers at ten pm I ended up getting my butt kicked, but I still have a fondness for the Untouchables, Elliot Ness.
Oh yeah? Which episode is the one where the girls murder the gangster by stopping him to death with their high heels? I would like to see that episode again.
Brother and I loved this show The Untouchables. Loved a lot of other TV shows too back when TV was entertainment.
I never let truth get in the way of a great story. Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti was my absolute favorite Gangster. Great series...great stories...great post.
I grew up watching this series. Bruce Gordon did such an amazing acting job. The series always had a gritty, realistic feel to it.
Do you remember any scenes in Greektown?
No actor has done better Frank Nitti than Bruce Gordon.
ABSOLUTELY!
He was perfect for the role and portrayed him convincingly.
Someone in Chicago who knew both men said that Bruce Gordon did a better Frank Nitti than Frank Nitti himself. When "in character," he was the archetype Chicago gangster.
@@andybreglia9431
Great post.
I was a young kid when "Untouchables" was on tv. I was convinced Mr Gordon was the real Frank Nitti ~ such a superb and realistic portrayal!
@@andybreglia9431
I found this blurb online: "[Frank Nitt] Portrayed memorably by Bruce Gordon in just 23 episodes [of Untouchables] as well as the Desilu Playhouse, Gordon brought to the Nitti character a single‑mindedly evil, unforgivingly treacherous yet somehow likable, even enjoyable persona unmatched by any other in television history apart from oil baron J. R. Ewing of the series Dallas." That's quite a statement.
Bruce Gordon was perfect for the role of Frank Nitti.
When Frank Nitti dies , he is with another great character actor , Frank de Kova, who played gangsters and later the Chief of the Hekowi Tribe on F Troop
Actor Bruce Gordon did a great job as Frank Nitti.
The untouchables series is classic.
Real life Frank Nitti killed his self.
Frank Nitti was always my favorite and the reason I watched the show was to see him!
Great character
This was not how nitti died.
@@rony41165 "POETIC LISCENCE"
Frank Nitti was always my favorite character on The Untouchables(Good or Bad) and I almost cried when Nitti fell into the subway tracks.
R.I.P.: Bruce Gordon, The Real Frank Nitti 😢
My favorite character to. I most cried as well. Loved his gangster moniker, "the enforcer", and man did he really enforce. No mercy from this guy.
Frank Nitti used to really scare me as a little 10-year-old.
Nice suits, too.
Frank did not get hit by a train, and did not fall off a roof! He killed himself next to the Railroad tracks at 26th and Harlem 8n Riverside illinois!
Excelent..even the guy falling from the stairs looks so real.....the quality post was set very high by this TV series....thanks for posting it...
It looked like the actor playing "Louie" actually did the stunt!
all time a fan of the untouchables never get tired of watching.
DesiLu aka Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball were both television pioneers and icons that were way ahead
of their time with classics such as I Love LUCY THE UNTOUCHABLES AND STAR TREK
As well and being crowned as The Comedic Queen Of Comedy.
May The Both Of Them Rest In Peace.✝Amen!
Yes!
Is there also a "Dramatic Queen of Comedy?"
@@KutWriteno@1 el de de, de un na acá de de un ex
Robert Stack said of Bruce Gordon he was the star of The Untouchables I cried when he fell down on those railroad tracks
Best show on TV
Frank de Kova....was Indian Chief in F Troop....very versatile actor
Yes I know. Chief Wild Eagle of the Hekawi Tribe. They also had guest stars in that tribe like Jamie Farr and Edward Everett Horton, the narrator of Fractured Fairy Tales in those Bullwinkle Cartoons.
The big - and fatal - mistake made by Nitti here is to wear a light-coloured suit instead of his trademark dark pin-striped suit. That's the real reason why he got the thumbs-down. And even his inexhaustible revolver magazine couldn't save him in the end.
Yeah. The days before counting shots and reloading.
And those dum dum bullets did it everytime.
Damn, they got my boy Frank! Bruce Gordon was born for that role.
When I was young for a long time I thought this was the way Nitti died; In real life he shot himself in a railway station.
The good guys in Sicily
I loved Bruce Gordon as Frank Nitti he should've won an Emmy ✔️
I work as a summer groundskeeper in Mt. Carmel Cemetery, west of Chicago, where Nitti is buried under his real name, "Frank Nitto." Unfortunately, because of our ongoing fascination with the old mobsters, too many people come to Mt. Carmel as "gangster tourists," rather than as pilgrims paying their respects to the dearly departed. This is particularly true for Al Capone, who is buried in a section near Nitto/Nitti. So many people trample over Capone's grave, we have trouble maintaining the grass there. Many honorable people also are laid to rest in Mt. Carmel, including 11 of Chicago's Catholic bishops, in or near the "Bishops' Mausoleum" in the middle of the cemetery.
It must give a chilling feeling just being near those tombs that keep the most evil killers of the Chicago mob.
@@Wilfredoviquez As someone who is there every weekday (during the summer), there is no difference between tending the grave of a mafioso, of a priest or nun, or of any of the other adult faithful departed interred at Mt. Carmel. The truly sad graves are those of the many children buried there. This is true at any cemetery.
Doesn't that cemetery believe in fences?
I agree with you that the saddest gravesites at any cemetery are those of the children.
@@KutWrite Actually, there is a fence surrounding Mt. Carmel. People do not sneak in at night when the cemetery is closed. Visitors (including the gangster tourists) come during the day when the cemetery is open. True visitors come to pay their respects to their departed loved ones. The gangster tourists just come to gawk and take pictures, trampling over Capone's gravesite in the process.
'You're dead Ness you're dead!"
When Frank Nitti die I cried on The Untouchables he's my favorite right after Robert Stack
I would like to see the full episode
This is another one of my favorites: The Frank Nitty Story…I like him better than Capone.. But they’re both great actors. Anyone out there, send me the full episode. I’m gonna get the collection: The ones with Robert Stack is the best!.
Homeboy never reloaded his 6 shooter after firing 20 shoots.
In TV westerns this is normal. In one, I counted 27 shots without a reload. Trouble is they never filmed people stuffing cartridges in their guns.
Seeing Robert Stack again reminds me of "Airplane!"
"Striker, have you ever flown a multi-engine plane before?"
Frank Nitti shot himself at a railroad yard just blocks from his house after heavy drinking in the morning after church. The next day he was to appear in front of a Grand Jury. Hollywood likes to change the story of his death like being pushed off a building by Elliot Ness in the 1987 movie The Untouchables. Ness killed himself in Riverdale, IL.
Or... did Ness cross the Clintons?
ELLIOT NESS HAD A HEART ATTACK
That's Willie Bryant former emcee of the Apollo Theatre as Mario the messenger. He was AKA the mayor of Harlem at one time.
@1:33 "Yes and guess your best wasn't good enough."
Chicago Subway, It's a New York City E-Train.
Actually, Frank Nitti (supposedly) commited suicide in a railroad yard. I say supposedly because the coroner's report indicated Nitti shot himself in the head ... twice! That had to be the most determined suicide in history.
Yep, check out the details offered in the description and more background here in our recap! theuntouchables.co/the-frank-nitti-story/
No! He shot himself at 26th and Harlem on Railroad Tracks,not a yard, behind the gas station that is still there! Pulled the trigger, nothing. 2 guys saw him,and yelled, he pulled the trigger and it fired!
His clothes and gun are in The North Riverside Police Station!
and according to WIKI, its was THREE shots...
"he first shot fired by Nitti's unsteady hand missed and passed through his fedora. The second bullet slammed into the right side of his jaw and exited through the top of his head, taking a lock of his hair with it and leaving the tuft protruding from the hole in the crown of the fedora. The final, fatal bullet entered behind Nitti's right ear and lodged in the top of his skull. Police Chief Allen Rose of North Riverside, rushing to the scene with a sergeant and several beat patrolmen, recognized Nitti immediately. An autopsy by William McNalley, coroner's toxicologist, showed that Nitti's blood alcohol level was 0.23. A coroner's jury ruled the following day that Nitti "committed suicide while temporarily insane and in a despondent frame of mind"
Then was resurrected by Hollywood so Kevin Costner could engage with Nitti in a rooftop duel !!!
@@robertbrooks7001, Fact- Frank Nitti beside the railroad tracks attempted to shoot himself in the head twice and flinched. The third shot hit his target with the barrel placed squarely upon his head. Frank couldn't bare to leave a task, even his own suicide, undone.
Was this TV series shot in Chicago?
Was that Anthony Quinn's voice talking to Nitti?
I like 👍 this scene
good episode. wow. they came for the enforcer.
Full movie link
Francesco Raffaele Nitto, alias Frank Nitti, murió el 19 de Marzo de 1943, tenía 57 años, y se tiró un tiro en la cabeza, en algunas películas dicen que Ness lo mató, eso no es verdad, Nitti estuvo preso durante unos meses y sufrió mucho esa reclusión, se mató solamente de pensar que volvería a la cárcel. Fue muy despiadado con su gente, los trataba muy mal.
En este episodio Nitti se cae a las vías del tren, no es verdad, se mató si en unas vías del tren pero con una pistola.
No se porque dicen que Ness lo mató. Brian de Palma tendría que haber indagado en la vida de este ganster, para decir la verdad en su película.
I never realized that a .38 had 50 rounds...
Two people said they cry when he died on the third person can say that beside Robert Stack
My favorite part of this finale is how the faceless mob gives Nitti the death verdict!👎(Even though historians have debunked the Roman origin of the “thumbs down” sign!)
Yeah. They got it backwards.
In real life Nitti committed suicide, while walking down railroad tracks, not in a subway shoot-out.
A detailed history is provided at the link in the description.
Kay sirar sirar , whatever will be. The future was not for Frank to see.
Frank Nitti in real life shot himself in a railroad yard....he died against a fence not under any train wheels
Bruce Gordon hace el personaje a la perfección, se por comentarios de la época que indagó en la vida del ganster cuando firmaba los intocables con Robert Stack, para introducirse lo más fiable al personaje. Un gran actor Bruce, lo único que Bruce era muy alto y fornido, y el verdadero Nitti era más bien pequeño. Cabe destacar también la excelencia de Robert Stack en el papel de Eliot Ness, formidable, no habrá otro como el.
Brian de Palma lo puso como un ridículo a Ness en su película, no era así, tenía un título universitario en Economía, y luego realizó un master en criminología. Ness era muy inteligente, y también muy mujeriego, se casó 3 veces y adoptó un hijo en su último matrimonio. En Los Intocables de Stack lo muestran a Ness como fiel a su esposa y padre de una niña.
Sin duda alguna, este personaje era el que le daba sasón al programa. Uno de mis tres personajes favoritos, siendo los "malos" de las series.
So many different stories how Frank Nitti really died, who really knows ?
Frank Nitti was a real person who was on his way to prison when he shot himself, there was an eyewitness to his last moments, and I'm not aware of any serious alternate accounts.
That said, this is at least based on what really happened -- turned to something more action-packed and dramatic for the cameras -- rather than "fell, screaming, off of a courthouse after a gunfight".
Love Nitro gun fired at least 15 times with no reload
Yes. That was a reeeeeally long subway train, too.
Frank Nitti actually died of a self inflicted gunshot wound in 1943.
1:01-When will the boys call in Biden for a similar discussion?
I called it in 2023.
Bruce Gordon was great but he was as believable as an Italian about as much as a full-blooded Cherokee would be.
According to IMDB: "Birth Name - Boris Benjamin Grabowsky"
@@KutWrite Hmm... so he's Irish? ;-)
@@lawrencelewis2592: Oriental.
@@KutWrite Ah, I see.
I thought the ultimatum was to take the rap or else and Ness wasn't even in Chicago in 1943. But I guess that's television for you
How was he resurrected after that?
Check out recap of this episode and learn what went on behind the scenes here: theuntouchables.co/the-frank-nitti-story/
Nitti didn't get hit by a train+ as said in the episode by Walter Winchell. Witness said he shot himself. A really good episode but lots of fiction as it mentioned.
I have always been fascinated by the gangsters of the 20s and30s in those days if you messed up either you take your. Own life or the mob would so here we are I believe that Frank nittis suicide was something other why do I believe that because on that day Frank did a few things that were very out of character according to his wife and like every mobster everything changes with time within thefamilys. I seen from galante to castellano to Messina and others meet violent ends I could go on and on but to much is not good
no broken pencils?
The Untouchable version of Frank Nitti didn't look like he was married where as in the real version of this person was twice married with one in 1917 and with another woman who was twenty year younger and possibly well acquainted with the American underworld. If this scene was redone, Ann would receive a phone call from Nitti's peers and goes to Nitti and tells him the meeting appointment. After the meeting, he comes and goes to bed. Later, he tells his wife about meeting and she tells him that she can't help him and she's going to church. He tells her that he going out and take his long walk to his final destiny😈
Nitti shot himself as he wandered, drunken, along a railroad track in a Chicago suburb.
Fake news. The real Frank Nitti committed suicide rather than go to jail for a tax rap. Never understood why UNTOUCHABLES had this so bogus ending.
Nitti goes by the name Bela Oxmyx in the Star Trek.univeree :)
Ha! Yes, he does -- and a low rent Nitti at that! Before Star Trek, Anthony Caruso got to ham it up as a Nitti knock-off in "Syndicate Sanctuary." Check out our review of that episode here: theuntouchables.co/syndicate-sanctuary/
@@TheUntouchablesTVShow The Untouchables was my dear old dad's fave show.
He also starred alongside Anthony Quinn, Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner & Claire Bloom, (Hubba Hubba), in the movie The Buccaneer.
Bruce Gordon played the ‘enforcer’ Frank Nitti in the ABC television series The Untouchables.
It was Anthony Caruso who played Bela Oxmyx in Star Trek’s ‘A piece of the action’ episode.
“Put him on ice!”
This is the Current FBI
Except that wasn’t the way Frank Nitti died.
It was a great show but all BS. “You can’t pin this rap on me Ness!”
Elly is the second woman Nitti has killed.
In the the empty chair Nitti recklessly kills a 16 year old girl
in a barber show while gunning down his fellow comrades.
Why did he killed them?---He explained it and never admitted to the crime.
How did he explain it without admitting it?
This never happened lmao
His shadow man was a dull actor. I didn't like him a bit. He acts dumb in this episode and he didn't say a single word in the episode. 😵💫
Nitti didnt die from a mob hit, he committed suicide in the 50s..He killed himself because he was tired of life.
Maybe that's the way Trump will get it
The Jew would played Frank Nitty was an excellent actor. The shows he was in were the best. He made the show. Poor old Jew is dead now.
The Untouchables is a great tv series, but don't get your history from it: One huge example is that Frank Nitti committed suicide. A suicide would be less of a good drama, not really something tv wanted to touch at that time, etc.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Nitti
Up until just recently, every episode of this series (as far as I could tell) was on TH-cam. Now, it's not 😞