Ain't We Got Fun?: The Untouchables (TV Episode)

Plot

This episode could well have been inspired by the story of comedian Joe E. Lewis, whose throat was slashed during a vicious Chicago gang war in the 1930s. Cameron Mitchell guest stars as Johnny Pacheck, a comic working at the mob-controlled Mohawk club. Finding himself caught between bootlegger Big Jim Harrington (Ted De Corsia), who regards Johnny as his personal property, and Federal agent Elliot Ness (Robert Stack), who wrongly suspects Johnny of murder, the beleagured comedian makes several wrong decisions that could end up costing a lot of lives--including his own. Also in the cast are Phyllis Coates, onetime Lois Lane on Superman, as a duplicitous doxie, and veteran movie heavy Timothy Carey as a leering, ultra-sadistic hoodlum. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi