The Mob Boss
Al Capone
(Robert De Niro, The Untouchables)
Don Vito is all very well, but when you talk about legendary crime bosses, Bugsy Siegel and John Gotti would both raise their fedoras to the one and only Al.
Expelled from school in the sixth-grade for punching a teacher, Al's ever-insouciant ways earned him knife-wounds leading to the nickname 'Scarface.' He soon worked his way up the Chicago organised crime ladder, his fingers in every sort of muddy pie, from smuggling to prostitution to murder to running illegal nightclubs.
And of course, the Chicago sultan had his own way of looking at prohibition. 'People are gonna drink! You know that, I know that, we all know that, and all I do is act on that. And all this talk of bootlegging - what is bootlegging? On a boat, it's bootlegging. On Lake Shore Drive, it's hospitality. I'm a businessman!'
Just the right man to head the greatest film crime Family of all. Give him a baseball bat and you don't have a freakin' prayer. Fuggedabouddit.
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