Frank Nitti

No, you can't.

In real life, Capone's most trusted lieutenant, his chief operating officer essentially, was a man named Frank Nitti.

Frank Nitti is fascinating because he wasn't just a thug.

No, he was highly intelligent.

He was Capone's first cousin.

A boss cannot watch every single street corner.

So how does Nitti show up in Scarface?

Well, in the film, Frank Nitti is seamlessly adapted into the character of Manny Ribera, played by Steven Bauer.

And that guy

played Frank Nitti in The Untouchables.

Oh, okay.

That's a good film.

Put your gun away, I get done away like Faye.

Got beats in Stockhouse, you never See the props stop Steady dipping Stripping them C's Like a chop shop Now who wanna get With the black Frank Nitti I ran through your city And left with my boot shitty Nobody gets looser Than this producer 48 tracks to slide Three or four cars to ride Coming out of L.A. Reggae late from the west coast East coast of a twin coast And I'm ghost I know you're bobbing your head Cause I can see ya But you can't see me The D.R.E. And the King T Ah Yeah

Where you at?

Back a vest for your Jimmy in the city of sex We in that sunshine state where the barman's hip beat The state where you never find a dance floor empty And pimp speed on a mission for them greens Lean mean money making machines serving fiends I've been in the game for ten years making rap tunes Ever since Honey's was wearing Sassoon now it's 95 If your city makin' pain Throw up a finger if you feel the same way Straight puttin' it down for California, yeah California, outside party California, outside party In the city, city, city

But Al suffered one major defeat.

His 30-year-old brother, Frank, was killed in a shootout with Chicago police.

The death of Frank Capone, I think, had a profound effect on Al and turned him from a kind of low-key Johnny Torrio type of racketeer into a much more desperate and violent hoodlum.

It made him feel that his own life could be cut short at any time and that he would go for as much as

Not everyone, however, was so impressed.

A crusading 21-year-old newspaper editor, Robert St. John, was disgusted.

In his paper, he exposed town leaders on the mob payroll and detailed a Capone brothel with a death chamber run by Al's older brother, Ralph.

And of course, that made me an enemy of the Capones.

Cause then I was wondering about like, I wondered this a couple of times, um, Or, I mean, in different viewings.

The Frank Nitti guy was like, your friend squealed like a pig when he died.

And obviously he could just be lying, which he kind of was because he didn't watch him die.

He just assumed he died, probably.

Al Capone is there.

Frank Nitti is there.

Frank Nitti.

Adinio Banyan, who Al Capone had shot in this flower shop in the movie.

He was only like 29 years old or whatever.

So I didn't understand that double standard.

I mean, nobody objects to Elliot Ness throwing Frank Nitti off a building in the movie The Untouchables, an event which never happened.

But somehow, if Oliver Stone uses a composite character, which other movies do, somehow people start screaming, okay, about using a composite character.

Now, you just said it.

Bolden said that Goetz had him bring a pot of spaghetti and other food to the resort and that the men were there two or three weeks, hunting and fishing.

Capone then headed for Florida, leaving Frank Nitti in charge of the operation, assisted by Capone bodyguard Frank Rio.

Bolton said that he personally purchased the Cadillac car from a dealer on South Michigan Avenue, believing it was to be used for hauling alcohol.

He thought he used the name James Martin when buying it.

We're dealing with some fantastic casting.

It had also been just long enough for me to have seen this movie from the last time when Billy Drago as Frank Nitti, the henchman in white, shows up.

I'm like, right, I forgot about him.

But again, everyone in this movie does a fantastic job of their roles that they're given.

She wasn't pregnant.

Well, remember we ran upstairs when he first got home when Frank Nitti parked and said, how's the family? How's this? He ran and said, how's the baby? Yeah, but it's the girl.

He's looking for the girl.

Exactly.

Yep.

I love the team, which I've already gone into.

I really like Frank Nitti.

Yeah,