The Revenge of Al Capone | |
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Genre | Drama |
Written by | Tracy Keenan Wynn |
Directed by | Michael Pressman |
Starring | Keith Carradine Ray Sharkey |
Theme music composer | Craig Safan |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producers | John Levoff Robert Lovenheim |
Producer | Vicki Niemi |
Cinematography | Tim Suhrstedt |
Editor | Jeff Freeman |
Running time | 96 minutes |
Production companies | River City Productions Inc. Unity Productions Inc. |
Original release | |
Network | NBC |
Release | February 26, 1989 |
The Revenge of Al Capone (also known as Capone) is a 1989 American television film about Al Capone starring Keith Carradine as Michael Rourke. The plot is not based on fact but rather is based on a revisionist interpretation of the 1933 attempted murder of President-elect Roosevelt by delusional anarchist Giuseppe Zangara.
Plot
[edit]Following his imprisonment, Al Capone still continues to run his crime empire and plots to assassinate the mayor of Chicago, Anton Cermak.
Cast
[edit]- Keith Carradine as Michael Rourke
- Ray Sharkey as Scarface
- Debrah Farentino as Jennie
- Charles Haid as Alex Connors
- Jayne Atkinson as Elizabeth
- Neil Giuntoli as Dutch Schultz
- Scott Paulin as Eliot Ness
- Alan Rosenberg as Frank Nitti
- Jordan Charney as J. Edgar Hoover
- Robert Bernedetti as Mayor Anton Cermak
- Conor O'Farrell as Sgt. Callahan
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