ELIOT NESS: AN UNTOUCHABLE LIFE
Product Details
- Format: DVD
- Version: Wide Screen
- Rating: NR
- Aspect: 1.85:1
- Item #: 8514
- Region: NTSC
- Audio: Dolby Digital
- Color: Color
- Language: English
- Country: USA
- UPC: 089859851421
- ISBN: 1-55739-127-0
Summary
- Eliot Ness – the real-life gangbuster who brought down Al Capone! From Robert Stack to Kevin Costner, Hollywood’s even more exciting, and has never been told…until now. Max Allan Collins, whose graphic novel ROAD TO PERDITION became the Academy Award-winning Tom Hanks film, has brought his Edgar-nominated one-man show to the screen, in a stylish, stylistic fashion. TV stalwart Michael Cornelison (REMINGTON STEELE, HUNTER) presents a riveting portrait of a heroic yet human Ness. From crashing through stills to bringing down crooked cops, from taking on numbers racketeers to nabbing the nation’s first serial killer, it’s all here – thrilling and true.
Bonus
Award-winning short film that inspired the play and feature
Extended excerpts from live performance of the play
Commentary with director/writer Max Allan Collins and director of photography/editor Phillip W. Dingeldein
Deleted scenes
BEHIND THE SCENES slide show
BONUS short noir film, “An Inconsequential Matter,” starring Michael Cornelison, directed by Max Allan Collins, written by Chuck Hughes (“Ed and His Dead Mother”)
Photo Gallery
DVD9
Customer Reviews
"Michael Cornelison gives an outstanding performance as Eliot Ness", 5/15/2008 2:43:55 AM
Reviewer: Mr. Jim
Witness the man who created the stylish "Nathan Heller" Detective series and "The Road To Perdition" (amongst other notable works); Max Allan Collins knows how to bring a true "Period" feel to life for his audience. Michael Cornelison stars as Eliot Ness, in this one hour, forty minute film is much akin to Hal Holbrook's classic "Mark Twain Tonight" production, but is enlivened by a shifting background of settings and assorted props. Eliot P. Ness (April 19, 1903 - May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, as the leader of a legendary team nicknamed The Untouchables. The snappy, evocative music score adds to the experience. An considerable undertaking is carried out by proxy in the form of a talented actor passionately addressing the audience as Ness. In this excellent effort, Max Allan Collins comes as close as one can to allowing Ness Himself to relate his True Detective adventures. The real Eliot Ness has sadly been overshadowed for decades by the erroneous depiction's of TV series, movie portrayals and assorted misguided "experts". Noted Author/Historian (and Film-maker) Max Allan Collins insightfully addresses the life and times of crime fighter Eliot Ness in this absorbing filmed stage play. ---------- Excellent film from Robert Blair and his staff at VCI Entertainment another job well done. VCI was named in Variety and Hollywood Reporter as the first company to produce and release motion pictures directly to the home marketplace
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