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Who's got the booze?!
planktonrules23 March 2016
Joseph Sirola is a name you probably won't recognize but you'll likely recognize his face if you grew up in the 1960s. He guest starred on a lot of shows (such as "Hawaii Five-O") and always played a rather elegant sort of guy. Well, her in "The Untouchables" he is elegant once again...with immaculate clothes. But he's also a cold-blooded killer and a big jerk. Sirola has a plan...to tighten up the supply of booze any way he can. Why? So that the booze he's been stockpiling will be worth a fortune! So, Sirola goes about destroying booze, turning in people to the authorities and even going after smalltime moonshiners...all to make the huge flow of booze slow to an expensive trickle. There is a problem with his plan, however. His partner has a lot of nerve and hides most of Sirola's booze...and Sirola loses his cool and does NOT handle this problem elegantly! What's next? See the show and find out for yourself.

This is a very nice episode and Sirola makes for an interesting villain. And, like any episode in the series, there are shootouts and killings a plenty!
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8/10
The stockpile
bkoganbing6 January 2014
Long before the OPEC nations decided to control the price of oil by stockpiling reserves and selling it out when the price went high, Joseph Siravo came up with a great idea. To drive up the price and also keep the flow of illegal whiskey going, create a stockpile and he gives George Matthews the job.

The whole scene reminded me of the precautions that Jack Hawkins took in Land Of The Pharoahs in guarding his tomb. Matthews hires people to remove the booze that Siravo brings it and puts it in his own nearby hiding place and then kills one of the two people he hired to move the stuff. These were not criminals they were just out of work teamsters. The second who is a veteran takes his family and flees to Washington, DC and joins the Bonus Army March.

This was a really good plot and I did like the fact that it took advantage of two events of the time. The Bonus March and the Federal Farm Board that Herbert Hoover set up to try and help the farmers keep up agricultural prices. Siravo gets his idea from that. It didn't really work and in the New Deal, FDR had a far more radical farm plan.

Nice episode coming from the fourth and last season of The Untouchables.
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