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19 unusual facts about Al Capone|


A Return to Normalcy

As Nucky calls a press conference blaming the D'Alessios for the robbery of Rothstein's shipment, Jimmy, Richard Harrow, and Torrio's man Al Capone murder the gang.

Al Cliver

He decided on after Al Capone, or Al Pacino and his surname was taken from a death row prisoner who wrote a best selling book.

Al's Lads

Three Englishmen working as waiters on a cruise ship in 1927 are given a chance to work for the Al Capone gang.

Alexander Robinson

In an interview with the north Belfast playwright Martin Lynch in the 1980s, Robinson claimed he worked for Al Capone and Joseph Kennedy.

Angri

It was the native town of Teresina Raiola, who, after emigrating to the United States and marrying, became the mother of Al Capone, the future American gangster.

Armitage Trail

Armitage Trail (1902-1930) was an American crime writer best known for his 1929 novel Scarface, depicting the rise of gangster Al Capone, which was adapted into the 1932 film Scarface directed by Howard Hawks.

Berkeley Township, New Jersey

Al Capone may have frequented its halls, perhaps even venturing beneath the lake in tunnels especially designed for smuggling alcohol during Prohibition.

Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan

"Al Capone's Hideout", an Upper Madawaska Theatre Group production, is a musical comedy based on the true story of Al Capone's stay in the area in 1942, when he and his gang hid out near Quadeville, Ontario.

Characters of the Night's Dawn trilogy

One of several well-known historical figures to return from the Beyond, Al Capone constructed an organisation which quickly gained control of New California.

Comparison microscope

Colonel Goddard was the key forensic expert in solving the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre in which seven gangsters were killed by rival Al Capone mobsters dressed as Chicago police officers.

Corey Ford

Ford's series of "Impossible Interviews" for Vanity Fair magazine featured ill-assorted celebrities, among them Stalin vs. John D. Rockefeller, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes vs. Al Capone, Sigmund Freud vs. Jean Harlow, Sally Rand vs. Martha Graham, Gertrude Stein vs. Gracie Allen, Adolf Hitler vs. Huey Long.

Couderay, Wisconsin

Couderay is home to Al Capone’s northwoods hideaway, a tourist site called "The Hideout." The Hideout was purchased in the spring of 2010 by the Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Tribe after bankruptcy hearings for the previous owners.

Jake Lingle

The reporter played by Martin Balsam in the 1959 film Al Capone is clearly based on Lingle, although the character's name has been changed to "Mac Keeley".

Murder Ain't What it Used to Be

However, Kirstner is being haunted by the white suited Bugsy "Smiler" Spanio (closely modelled on Al Capone), a man he double-crossed and murdered after they stole a million dollars' worth of alcohol before they ended Prohibition.

Paper Lace

However, the follow-up song "The Night Chicago Died", set in the Prohibition era with reference to Al Capone, was untroubled by any such competition and topped the Billboard Hot 100.

Raul Seixas

References to a wide range of historical and fictional personalities are found within his lyrics: Syd Barret, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Aleister Crowley, Al Capone, Jesus, Julius Caesar and Shakespeare, for example.

Remer, Minnesota

Remer is also location of the Thunder Lake Lodge where Al Capone would stay on his vacations to Minnesota.

Santy Runyon

Runyon's career included, among other things, playing at Al Capone's speakeasy club, The Coliseum, and giving lessons to many musicians, including the likes of Charlie Parker.

The Naked God

Elsewhere, the most infamous 'returnee' of the possessed, Al Capone, uses his organisational skills to conquer the planet New California and turn it into the hub of an expanding empire, 'The Organisation', with the Confederation Navy hard-pressed to deal with checking its advance whilst maintaining the quarantine.


1923 in organized crime

The Chicago Crime Commission releases its first published report of those "who are constantly in conflict with the law" naming over 28 underworld figures as public enemies including James "Mad Bomber" Belcastro, Edward O'Donnell, James "Fur" Sammons, William "Three Fingers" White, Jake Guzik, and Al Capone.

Assassination attempts on Fidel Castro

In September 1960, Momo Salvatore Giancana, a successor of Al Capone's in the Chicago Outfit, and Miami Syndicate leader Santo Trafficante, who were both on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list at that time, were indirectly contacted by the CIA about the possibility of Fidel Castro assassination.

Cornelius Shea

He joined Sangerman's Bombers, a group of bomb terrorists which had emerged from the remnants of the James Sweeney gang, and did work for Al Capone's Chicago Outfit.

French Lick, Indiana

In the early 20th century it also featured casinos attracting celebrities such as boxer Joe Louis, composer Irving Berlin and gangster Al Capone.

George Scalise

In 1933, Horan was accused by former Illinois Attorney General Edward J. Brundage of consorting with gangster Al Capone and seeking to improperly influence James H. Wilkerson, the judge overseeing Capone's 1931 tax evasion trial.

Grand Rapids Hotel

Some people claim that gangsters referred to as the Chicago Outfit associated with Al Capone would take the train from Chicago and stay at the hotel.

Hibiscus Island

Into the 1930s, as the Great Depression diminished real estate prospects in the wake of the Florida land boom of the 1920s, The twin islands of Hibiscus and Palm Island became the winter home of such notables as Al Capone and celebrities, who were impressed by the views of the skylines of Downtown Miami and Miami Beach.

Joe E. Lewis

In 1927, Lewis refused the request of Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn (an Al Capone lieutenant) to renew a contract that would have bound him to sing and perform at the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, which was partly owned by McGurn.

Knights of the City

It was produced by a now ex-mob boss Michael Franzese, who was dubbed by Tom Brokaw as "The Prince of the Mafia" and made more money for organized crime than anyone since Al Capone.

Lynn A. Davis

In earlier years, Hot Springs had fallen under the influence of such mobsters as Al Capone, Frank Costello, and Charles "Lucky" Luciano, who was arrested in New York City along with the Hot Springs chief of detectives on charges of ninety counts of prostitution brought by District Attorney and later Governor Thomas E. Dewey.

The Untouchables of Elliot Mouse

The citizens of "Cheesecago" are defenceless against "Al Catone's" mobsters until a few brave federal agents from the "Federal Mousehole of Investigation" headed by "Elliot Mouse" dare to take on the gangsters.

The Untouchables of Elliot Mouse is a 26 half-hour television animated series loosely inspired by the real life Eliot Ness, and his group of agents colloquially known as The Untouchables, and their investigation into the real life gangster Al Capone, although (as with past adaptations) it does take some liberties with history.