Lawrence Dobkin dominates this episode with his in your face performance as Arthur Phlegenheimer aka Dutch Schultz. I rank Dobkin's Schultz as the second best performance by an actor as a real life gangster on the show right after Bruce Gordon's Frank Nitti. Supporting Untouchables Jerry Paris also gave one of his best performances of the series. The scene in the hotel room where Schultz discovers that Martin Flaherty is actually an undercover operative is a series classic.
We also get to see a young Marion Ross as Vera Schultz. Vera refers to her husband by his real first name Arthur instead of his nickname Dutch. This will be a hoot for any Happy Days fan who watches Dutch Schultz Story as Ross's character on that show was the only one to refer to Fonzie by his real name which was also Arthur. Also look for future Bewitched co-star David White in a nice bit as Schultz's attorney.moreless
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"Lucky" Luciano is muscling in on Dutch Schultz' territory and Eliot Ness, on special assignment in New York City, sends an agent into the mob's organization in hopes of nailing Dutch Schultz on income tax evasion, just like he did Al Capone.
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GUEST STAR Margaret Field
Marsha Harper (...
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GUEST STAR Lawrence Dobkin
Dutch Schultz
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GUEST STAR David White
W. S. Andrews
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Robert Stack
Eliot Ness
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Jerry Paris
Agent Martin Fl...
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Abel Fernandez
Agent William Y...
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Nicholas Georgiade
Agent Enrico Rossi
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Steve London
Agent Jack Rossman
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Walter Winchell
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Schultz: I thought you said he could be softened up.
Abe: We figure maybe it's time you find out what makes him so tough. -
Schultz: (to Flaherty about Luciano) He's a punk! I could buy every monkey he's got working for him!
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Ness: Doesn't take you long to find out about things, does it?
Schultz: Not in this town, it doesn't.
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This episode, which ends on October 24, 1935 is the last one sequentially in show history. Besides Dutch Schultz Story only two other episodes took place in the year 1935: Ma Barker and Her Boys and The Otto Frick Story. The earliest date in show history that is given in the narration is Arsenal which begins a few weeks before the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929.
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