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| The Untouchables - Season Two, Vol. 1 | 
 enlarge | Directors: Alex March, Don Medford, Herman Hoffman, John Peyser, Paul Wendkos
Actors: Robert Stack, Ricardo Montalban, Phillip Pine, Kevin Hagen, Paul Picerni
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 9820
Format: Black & White, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 4
Running Time: 806
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARD131944D
UPC: 097361319445
EAN: 0097361319445
ASIN: B00114XTHK
Release Date: March 18, 2008
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Product Description
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 03/18/2008
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In Billy Wilder's classic, The Apartment, a sleazy corporate exec tries to schedule an after-hours tryst with one of the company's switchboard operators. "Thursday?" she protests. "But that's The Untouchables with Bob Stack." "So we'll watch it at the apartment," the exec placates her. "Big deal." As Wilder's shout-out indicates, The Untouchables was a big deal. Hot off Robert Stack's Emmy-winning performance as Treasury Agent Elliot Ness, The Untouchables blasted its way into the Nielsen Top Ten in its second season, which begins in a blaze of glory with the episode, "The Rusty Heller Story," featuring Elizabeth Montgomery in her Emmy-nominated role as the "no good" showgirl who plays two mobsters and a corrupt lawyer against each other (Bewitched fans will note that the lawyer with whom she gets very chummy is portrayed by David White, the future Larry Tate!). More than four decades later, with its film noir sensibility, smart-writing, hard-boiled dialogue, and plenty of what Rusty Heller calls, "boom-boom action," The Untouchables is still as potent (but not as deadly) as a bottle of ginger jake. The 16 episodes contained on this four-disc set tell some great (albeit suspect) stories of the kingpins, criminals, and hoodlums who thought they had "the guts" to move in on Al Capone's tottering empire. Among the most arresting are "The Big Train," a gripping two-parter featuring Neville Brand reprising his role as Capone, who plots his escape while en route to Alcatraz, "Jamaica Ginger," featuring James Coburn and Brian Keith as a couple of "torpedoes" hired by a gangster to kill his rival, a plan complicated when one falls in love with a schoolteacher, and "The Purple Gang," about Detroit's feared gang that kidnaps an underling (Werner "Colonel Klink" Klemperer) with Capone ties. Joining Ness's incorruptible squad this season is Paul Picerni as Agent Lee Hobson, but it's Stack's show all the way. He gets to slap wiseguys around ("Answer the question, punk") and deliver the best lines. When one goon tells him he has no respect for the dead, Ness replies, "Sometimes, even less for the living." His relentless war against the underworld sometimes comes at a terrible price. When one innocent woman is gunned down, the killers taunt, "Satisfied, Mr. Ness?" But, of course, that just steels his resolve. As for this set, we're satisfied, even without any bonus features, and the now common (and criminal) practice of season splitting. --Donald Liebenson
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 Classic old-school TV September 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Season 2, volume 1 of the original "Untouchables" is now out. Historically, this series is about as accurate as "The Flintstones," but it's riveting crime melodrama nonetheless. (The original series is about 500 times better than the mediocre big-screen Brian De Palma 1980s film with the colorless Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness. The second 1990s TV series was also better than the movie, but this original series is the best.) It was, hands down, the most violent television series up to that time, and remains pretty strong even by modern standards. The first episode of season two features a young, pre-Bewitched Elizabeth Montgomery in an unforgettable performance as a moll named "Rusty Heller," who gets the hots for Robert Stack.
NOSTALGIA AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE August 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great writing. Great acting. Great music. Great photography. Other than that, not much!! A few decades ahead of its time.
TONY HOROWITZ
 They messed with history July 1, 2008
I enjoyed the release of this set except for 1 thing; the editing of the bumpers off of the close of each act. As another person pointed out it is a complete hack job; the music builds to a crescendo and then they fade it out and hack off the window at the end. Another person thought they had messed with music tracks, but I have Beta (taped off air copies) and the music is the same. In fact, I have worked in TV for a long time and this is the same music that was on the original series, then when it went into syndication in the late 60's and every repeat of it in various syndicated formats over the years. I used see the films come into a tv station I worked at back in 1972 and the unedited film used to run around 52 minutes. These episodes run around 50:20, so besides the windows being cut off of each act they edited another minute out somewhere. They may have also used speed processing to compress it to save the time. Does anyone know why they would cut the end act windows off? It can't be for time. It can't be for copyright. So why would they do this? I am extremely disappointed, but CBS/Paramount doesn't care, as they think they are doing us a favor by releasing them at all.
 Taking a pass on this release because of clipped bumpers June 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Thanks to all who offered the heads-up about the clipped bumpers.
These half-season releases are a sucker's game. Wait until all the episodes have been released. At that time CBS-Paramount will likely offer a complete series boxed-set release at a much cheaper per-episode cost. If not, the price of half-season "volumes" will have dropped substantially by that time. I'll get by with my bootlegs until then.
A Classic tv show June 13, 2008
a great tv show and great episodes, 4 discs16 episodes recommend buying if you like the show
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