Two Oscar winning actresses from different generations, Claire Trevor and Louise Fletcher, star in this wildly fictional tale of how Eliot Ness and his Untouchables aid in the taking down of that notorious bank robbing family the Barkers. Anyone with a modicum of knowledge knows Ness had nothing to do with that operation. When Frank Sinatra and J. Edgar Hoover both object to a program that's taking in a lot of territory pilgrim.
Still Trevor gives one great expansive performance as the infamous gangster mother of the year, Ma Barker. She turns out to be the male role model as opposed to poor ineffectual Vaughn Taylor who she and the four sociopathic sons she raised. Louise Fletcher is the girlfriend of one of them who Trevor makes most definitely unwelcome. Ain't nobody good enough for her lovely sons.
That final shootout that has gone down in gangster lore when the family opens up the family arsenal is classic. This family could have been the poster family for the NRA.
Still Trevor gives one great expansive performance as the infamous gangster mother of the year, Ma Barker. She turns out to be the male role model as opposed to poor ineffectual Vaughn Taylor who she and the four sociopathic sons she raised. Louise Fletcher is the girlfriend of one of them who Trevor makes most definitely unwelcome. Ain't nobody good enough for her lovely sons.
That final shootout that has gone down in gangster lore when the family opens up the family arsenal is classic. This family could have been the poster family for the NRA.