Al Capone

Victor Lustig was a Bohemian, both in the colloquial and the literal sense. He was born in Bohemia (a former independent kingdom nowadays part of the Czech Republic) in 1890, under the name of Robert Miller. But the word Bohemian has…

It only takes about five minutes of Brian De Palma's The Untouchables for you to realise that this is not setting out to be a realistic portrayal of the downfall of Al Capone. The gentle, childlike tune that plays out in the background of…