Published on 11/21/08
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FBI agent Eliot Ness’s team of law-enforcement officials, so straitlaced they were called the Untouchables, captured Al Capone in 1931 and guaranteed their place in the national consciousness. Which of the following dramatizations of this triumph was the first one filmed in Chicago?
a) 1987 film by Brian DePalma
b) 1963 Bugs Bunny cartoon “The Unmentionables”
c) 1959 TV series starring Robert Stack
d) 1993 TV series starring Bill Forsyth
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Answer: a. Kevin Costner vehicle The Untouchables took liberties with its source material, but not its Chicago scenery. The 1959 TV series of the same name was the first hit for the L.A.-based Desilu Productions, owned by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.