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‘The Untouchables’ Is a Killer Thriller, but It Really Messes Up the Lore for Kevin Costner’s Eliot Ness

True crime media has sensationalized the lives and misdeeds of a great number of terrible people, from organized crime bosses to outright serial killers, but one of the most famous figures to rise in stature thanks to Hollywood’s obsession with crime fought on the other side of the law. Eliot Ness was a lawman and eventual head of Chicago’s Prohibition Bureau, at the same time and place as famed criminal Al Capone’s reign over the city’s criminal enterprises.

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