The Monkey Wrench

March 2, 1933. The remote section of the northern Michigan Lake front, 180 miles northeast of Chicago. The Chicago Syndicate, to improve the quality of their booze, is now smuggling in master brewers from Germany; the illegal immigrants had come 6,000 miles to the new country. Tonight, 8 new immigrants are brought in. One of them looks at the sign: ""Welcome to Chippewa Landing, Michigan""-- Bernd asks, ""Chippewa? What does that mean? But this is America, yes?"" Max Kerner tells him to move on. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Eliot Ness and his Untouchables are using their armored truck with the V-wedge on the grill to smash through the large metal doors of a brewery; they shut down yet another bootleg operation. March 22. Another raid by Ness and the police. No one is killed since the brewers surrender peacefully, but then one of the mobsters shoots Bernd in the back, fatally wounding him. Lee Hobson and the police chase the hitman, but he gets away. They find out Bernd was the maste

Nitti fait entrer illégalement des brasseurs allemands par un petit village à la frontière canadienne afin de supplanter la concurrence de Kulak. Ce dernier s'offre les services d'un tueur redoutable, d'origine allemande, qui s'infiltre dans un convoi d'arrivants. Ness doit se fier à une ravissante veuve qui est tombée amoureuse de lui.

Nitti logra concentrar el mercado de la cerveza al mejorar el sabor de su producto. Mientras tanto, su competidor Joe Kulak se prepara para la venganza.