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The Untouchables: The Contract
Smiley Barris, a material witness against the New York syndicate, jumps bail and heads cross country to Los Angeles where he hopes his old pal Johnny Templar, the owner of a gambling ship, will provide him with shelter from both sides of the law. Johnny agrees but then gets a call from New York rackets boss Joe Kulak giving him the contract to kill Smiley.
Episode Info
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Episode number: 3x25 Airdate: Thursday May 31st, 1962 |
Guest Stars
Uncredited
Main Cast
Recap
On February 4, 1934, a cheap hoodlum named Smiley Barris is run to ground by the Untouchables and the NYPD. Smiley surrenders to them with the aid of some tear gas but as he is being led out of a building a sniper from a nearby rooftop fires. Smiley is unhit but a cop standing next to him isn't so lucky. Ness fires and kills the sniper who is identified as Marco Robles, a torpedo for New York rackets boss Joe Kulak...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Frank Sutton and John Larkin would appear together once more in Season Four's Butcher's Boy.
The writer of this episode must have been a country music fan because the Federal agent in charge of the Los Angeles office is named Porter Wagner.
Abel Fernandez is absent from this episodes as well as the following three of the show's third season. For some reason or another, Fernandez was absent from 12 Season Three episodes out of 28 total.
Location: New York City, Los Angeles
Episode Quotes
Quist: There's a couple of people in this town who wouldn't mind seeing me dead.
Ness: You know something, Quist, there's more than just a couple.
Ness: You know something, Quist, there's more than just a couple.
Narrator: As for Johnny Templar, he had gotten his wish. He was out of the rackets.
Ness: (about Smiley) Remember, we can't kill him.
Captain: This proves one thing. Kulak means business.
Ness: When doesn't he?
Ness: When doesn't he?
Kulak: What's the matter, Quist, don't you like a challenge?
Quist: Marco blew the Smiley contract?
Kulak: Into a million pieces.
Kulak: Into a million pieces.
Ness: (regarding Smiley's importance) Kulak told us when he tried to gun you down.
Smiley: Joe Kulak wouldn't do a thing like that.
Captain: You're right, Smiley. He got Marco Robles to do it for him.
Smiley: Joe Kulak wouldn't do a thing like that.
Captain: You're right, Smiley. He got Marco Robles to do it for him.
Hobson: (after pulling Smiley off Quist) Looks like we got here just in time.
Ness: Maybe we should have been a couple of minutes late.
Ness: Maybe we should have been a couple of minutes late.
Johnny: (to Smiley) Boy, when you dig a hole, you really dig it deep.
Episode Goofs
In the ending fight scene between Smlley and Quist their stunt doubles bear almost no resemblance to them.
Cultural References
The character of Johnny Templar appears to be loosely base on real-life New York mobster Benjamin "Buggsy" Siegal who left the New York area to operate on the West Coast.
Analysis
Some Untouchables fans seem to dislike this episode mainly because they find the ending grim and unsatisfying. Yes, it's true that the ending of The Contract is not exactly uplifting for any of the characters involved but we must remember that it was a grim and unsatisfying world in which the Untouchables themselves resided. Things did not always turn out for the better and even good people didn't always survive.
Other Episode Crew
| • Executive Producer | Alan A. Armer |
| • Producer | Del Reisman |
| • Associate Producer | Vincent McEveety |
| • Casting | Lynn Stalmaster | James Lister (2) |
| • Music Supervisor | Robert H. Raff |
| • Hairstylist | Anna Malin |
| • Make-up | Kiva Hoffman |
| • Set Decorator | Harry Gordon |
| • Property Master | Allan Levine |
| • Director of Photography | Charles Straumer |
| • Production Supervisor | James Paisley |
| • Art Director | Rolland M. Brooks | James Hulsey |
| • Production Management | Marvin Stuart |
| • Sound Editor | Joseph G. Sorokin |
| • Based On The Works Of | Eliot Ness | Oscar Fraley |
| • Film Editor | Robert L. Swanson |
| • Researcher | Kellam De Forest |
| • Costumer | Frank Delmar |
| • Assistant Director | Ted Schilz |
| • Sound Engineer | S.G. Haughton |
| • Executive In Charge Of Production | Jerry Thorpe |
| • Composer | Nelson Riddle |
| • Editorial Supervisor | Bill Heath |
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