Jazz was born in the Roaring Twenties. It's now 1930, and on Chicago's Gold Coast there's a nightspot called ""Goose Gander's Golden Egg"" jazz club. Blues player Eddie Moon is blowing his hot cornet with the jazz band. But then mobster Lucky talks to Ray ""Goose"" Gander; Lucky wants him to carry Lou Cagan's hooch in his joint. Ray refuses, the strongest drink he serves in his place is coffee. Then Lucky's hitman plays some music of his own-- with his tommy gun; he shoots up the joint. But tonight Lucky isn't so lucky; an hour later, Eliot Ness and Lee Hobson and Enrico Rossi grab him. This is the 3rd little, independent club he's shot up; the previous 2 were the Whoopee Club and the Lion's Den. Ness runs him in. Meanwhile Lou Cagan (Mr. Big of the Chicago northside), who owns the lavish gambling resort the Parthenon Hotel, is getting some bad news from Louis ""Lepke"" Buchalter. Lepke, representing the New York syndicate, tells Cagan they sent him 700 cases of booze, but he hasn't
Name | Type | Role | |
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Don Brinkley | Writer | ||
Richard Bakalyan | Guest Star | ||
Louie Elias | Guest Star | ||
Joseph Ruskin | Guest Star | ||
Charlie Picerni | Guest Star | ||
Kathleen Nolan | Guest Star | ||
Robert Duvall | Guest Star | ||
Marc Lawrence | Guest Star | ||
Tony Barr | Guest Star | ||
Will Kuluva | Guest Star | ||
Bill Erwin | Guest Star | ||
Sherman Marks | Director |