The Nero Rankin Story

Summary Although Eliot Ness and the Untouchables managed to destroy the Underground Court, they have yet to make a dent against the Syndicate, which has re-grouped and continues to operate. They elect Nero Rankin to chair the national board of the syndicate, but the choice wasn't unanimous. He's also in poor health and that leads Sylvia Orkins, who loves Rankin and is convinced he will die or be killed, to approach Eliot Ness to do something, anything, to get him out of his new job. Rankin knows he has only about a year to live and that he's an unpopular chairman so he offers Ness a deal: lay off the Syndicate for the year and when he's dead, he'll provide Ness with the Syndicate's books. When Ness turns him down, Rankin decides that there's only one option: fight back.

S2.E28 ∙ The Nero Rankin Story

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Robert Stack Paul Picerni Walter Winchell Nicholas Georgiade

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Genres : Action Crime Drama

Release date : May 10, 1961

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : RKO Studios - 780 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Desilu Productions Langford Productions

Summary Although Eliot Ness and the Untouchables managed to destroy the Underground Court, they have yet to make a dent against the Syndicate, which has re-grouped and continues to operate. They elect Nero Rankin to chair the national board of the syndicate, but the choice wasn't unanimous. He's also in poor health and that leads Sylvia Orkins, who loves Rankin and is convinced he will die or be killed, to approach Eliot Ness to do something, anything, to get him out of his new job. Rankin knows he has only about a year to live and that he's an unpopular chairman so he offers Ness a deal: lay off the Syndicate for the year and when he's dead, he'll provide Ness with the Syndicate's books. When Ness turns him down, Rankin decides that there's only one option: fight back.

Details

Genres : Action Crime Drama

Release date : May 10, 1961

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : RKO Studios - 780 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Desilu Productions Langford Productions

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