Capone Baseball Bat Legend Filmed

According to accounts cited in his biographies, when Al Capone learned in 1929 that three of his men were plotting against him, he reportedly invited them to a dinner, spent the night drinking with them, then beat them with a baseball bat and ordered his bodyguards to shoot them, a story later questioned by several historians. The legend still proved powerful enough for Hollywood, and Brian De Palma used it as the basis for a brutal dinner scene in The Untouchables (1987), where Robert De Niro's Capone kills a disloyal underling with a bat in front of his crew.

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