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Augie 'The Banker' Ciamino

Summer 1931, Chicago.  Eliot Ness and his Untouchables had smashed most of the big breweries owned by the mobsters.  But racketeers, taking advantage of the poverty and desperation of many immigrants, forced them to make a gallon of whiskey a day in small stills in their homes-- makeshift stills which could be put together for less than $3. The absolute boss of Little Italy is Augie ""The Banker"" Ciamino, and with whiskey pouring out of 1,000 tenement stills, he was cancelling the gains that Ness had made. August 16, 1931.  That night, at a street festival, Giovanni gets a hold of some bad whiskey at Raineri's bakery, and is sped to a hospital in an ambulance.  Ciamino wants to find out who is responsible; he says to Raineri, ""You tell me where Giovanni got the bad stuff, I buy all your sfogliatelle.""*  Uncooperative Raineri says, ""I don't make sfogliatelle.""  (even though we see a sign in his bakery: Special Today: Sfogliatelle.)  When Ciamino finds out it was Stefano-- and twice he'd

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  • Originally Aired February 9, 1961
  • Runtime 50 minutes
  • Network ABC (US)
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  • Created February 12, 2020 by
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Name Type Role
Adrian Spies Writer
Bernard Kates Guest Star
Harry Dean Stanton Guest Star
Roscoe Ates Guest Star
Andrea Darvi Guest Star
Rebecca Welles Guest Star
Will Kuluva Guest Star
Jack Tesler Guest Star
Bernard Fein Guest Star
Sam Jaffe Guest Star
Penny Santon Guest Star
Keenan Wynn Guest Star
Lee Philips Guest Star
Stuart Rosenberg Director