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The Return of Eliot Ness (1991)

“You can't touch him. You can't scare him. And these days, the Mob still can't get rid of him.”

  • 94 min
  • Crime
  • imdb logo 6.0/10 (271 votes)

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Plot

In the year 1947, Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman, finds himself drawn back to the gritty streets of Chicago when a former comrade-in-arms and fellow cop meets an untimely end. As he returns for the solemn funeral, a troubling undercurrent of whispers suggesting his friend's corruption infiltrates the mourning air. Ness, however, staunchly refuses to believe such allegations. To his dismay, he discovers even the slain officer's son, a fellow lawman, harbors doubts about his father's integrity. Instead of retreating from the storm of suspicion, Ness decides to further immerse himself in the city's murky depths. Joining forces with his late friend's skeptical son, he embarks on a mission to cleanse his comrade's tarnished name. The trail they follow is a perilous one, leading back to a case his friend was deeply embroiled in before his death, a case with threads woven intricately into the notorious web spun by one of Al Capone's associates. In "The Return of Eliot Ness," the past and present collide as the famed lawman must navigate through a labyrinth of lies, corruption, and treachery to honor his fallen friend's memory, all the while battling the haunting specters of their shared history.

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The Return of Eliot Ness is a crime movie featuring Robert Stack and directed by James A. Contner.

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