Augie 'The Banker' Ciamino

Episode aired Feb 9, 1961
52m

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

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Keenan Wynn in Augie 'The Banker' Ciamino (1961)

Action Crime Drama

Augie "The Banker" Ciamino (played by Keenan Wynn) is a vicious and brutal bootlegger who has developed a seemingly foolproof way of manufacturing liquor. He has equipped over a hundred immi... Read allAugie "The Banker" Ciamino (played by Keenan Wynn) is a vicious and brutal bootlegger who has developed a seemingly foolproof way of manufacturing liquor. He has equipped over a hundred immigrant homes with small stills to actually make the stuff and a unique way of collecting th... Read allAugie "The Banker" Ciamino (played by Keenan Wynn) is a vicious and brutal bootlegger who has developed a seemingly foolproof way of manufacturing liquor. He has equipped over a hundred immigrant homes with small stills to actually make the stuff and a unique way of collecting the product. Not everyone in the immigrant community is participating in the illegal liquor-... Read all

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IMDb RATING

7.7/10

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Trivia
In the scene where Ness's team has written the names on a chalkboard, of several tenement families and their addresses suspected of homebrewing whiskey, several of the names are of famous Italian Mannerist and Baroque painters: Giorgio Vasari, Luca Cambiaso, Carlo Dolci, and a couple others.

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Very Strong Episode

The is the second story we've seen on The Untouchables that involves local residents making whiskey and then combining all their efforts to feed a big gangster with the stuff. In this one, the main hood is Augie Ciamino who has got residents of Little Italy making the product with a unique way of then collecting it (through Root Beer bottles that appear empty!).

Keenan Wynn, as he did so often, plays the rough bad-guy Ciamino. He and his thugs are pretty brutal, at one point giving a night-school teacher a beating in the face with a chain.

His tactics, however, don't scare one man - baker "Renzo Rainiri" (Will Kuluva) - who has a special stake in this after he finds out his kid is handling the books for Ciamino.

What happens with the old man, his kid, the crooks and Elliot Ness is very interesting,from start to finish. Add to that another good guest appearance by veteran actor Sam Jaffe and you have a strong episode.