The Untouchables (TV Series) Three Thousand Suspects (1960) User Reviews

Decent, but everyone seems awfully stupid in this episode....

[planktonrules · 7/10 · 11 March 2016]

Much of this episode is set within a prison...and so Ness being involved makes very little sense. No matter...it is still entertaining.

When the show begins, inmate Nick Segal has his arm broken in what's being reported as an accident...though the audience can see it was intentional. A bit later, a shot rings out and Segal is killed...and apparently the murder weapon was a rifle. Now here is where it gets really stupid...the Warden and Ness all start talking about 'how would an inmate get a rifle into the prison?'. Huh?! My immediate thought was that one of the guards shot Segal...and it took them another 40 minutes to get to this ingenious solution(?). In the meantime, Ness manages to get a prisoner, Sebring (Leslie Nielsen), to investigate the murder for him and the show is mildly interesting but certainly isn't among their better shows due to the writing...as it seemed everyone but the characters in the show knew the killer had to be a guard. Duh.

The unexpected Informer!!!

[elo-equipamentos · 7/10 · 22 September 2019]

When a parole of a former Mob's member is denied, the inmate Dick Siegel understand that he no longer is needs for his Boss, so he calls Eliot Ness to make a deal, too late he was shot at prison's library, dead don't speak, the Untouchables set up a bold plan, put an informer from another prison to find out who was killed Siegel, the chosen one is the tough guy Tom Sebring (Leslie Nielsen) in exchange for his dangerous assignment a parole is offer by Ness, outside the syndicate having Frank Nitti as a right hand of Capone, were pretty worry over this case that became in huge proportions and reachs on their business, then they put a final plan to muffled the case, great episode despite some minor flaws!!

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First watch: 2019 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5

Leslie Nielsen hasn't quite grasped the subtlety of the acting craft at this point

[AlsExGal · 6/10 · 5 March 2022]

Nick Segal is expecting to be paroled, largely due to the manipulation of his partner behind the scenes. So when Segal is denied parole he decides to rat out his partner to the feds as payback, and by proxy will probably drag Frank Nitti's operation into matters too. Before Eliot Ness can get to the prison to talk to Segal about what he knows, Segal is taken out by a sniper's bullet. Law enforcement investigates and says the bullet must have come from inside the prison, thus the titular "three thousand suspects". Ness promises another convict, Tom Sebring (Leslie Nielsen), an early parole if he will work undercover and discover who killed Segal.

I say Nielsen hasn't managed to grasp the subtlety of the acting craft at this point in his career because he goes about snarling as though he is a cross between Captain Bligh and James Cagney's Cody Jarrett out of White Heat. It is a one note performance and manages to get almost comical, as though he is doing his famous late career parodies but at this point doesn't know that he is doing it.

I would have probably given this episode just a 5/10 had it not been for the opportunity of seeing Leslie Nielsen so early in his career, and plus Bruce Gordon as Frank Nitti always entertains.

Leslie Nielsen as stool pigeon

[bkoganbing · 6/10 · 30 September 2013]

The long arm of the syndicate reaches into Leavenworth Federal Prison and following it the long arm of The Untouchables by proxy. When two attempts are made on the life of Peter Leeds, a prisoner in Leavenworth from the Chicago rackets, Eliot Ness is sent for by Leeds. Sad to say that the second attempt on Leeds proved successful.

To find out what happened Robert Stack makes a deal with Leslie Nielsen who was serving a smuggling rap in another penitentiary. Nielsen goes in undercover to find out who killed Leeds and why.

With Stack and his squad working the outside the whole story is revealed. And Bruce Gordon as Frank Nitti ties up some loose ends from his perspective.

Nielsen as the convict who's being manipulated into being a federal stool pigeon dominates this Untouchables episode. He's the main reason for seeing this story.