词条 | The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults |
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|show_name = The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults |image = The_Mystery_of_Al_Capones's_Vaults.jpg |caption = Title screen. |genre = Reality |producer= Allan Grafman Doug Llewelyn |director = Bill Foster |starring = Geraldo Rivera Buddy Rogers Robert St. John |distributor = Tribune Entertainment |released = {{film date|1986|4|21}} |runtime = 120 minutes. }} The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults is a two-hour live American television special that was broadcast in syndication on April 21, 1986. Hosted by Geraldo Rivera, the special centered on the opening of a secret vault in the Lexington Hotel once owned by noted crime lord Al Capone, which turned out to be empty except for debris. The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults is available in its entirety on Geraldo's website. Background{{Main|Al Capone}}Al Capone was born to Italian immigrant parents on January 17, 1899, in New York City. He moved to Chicago in 1919, and there he became a notable criminal figure and gangster. He played large parts in gambling, alcohol, and prostitution rackets. In 1925, after an assassination attempt on former head Johnny Torrio, Capone took control of the Chicago Outfit organized crime syndicate, of which he had served as the second in command. He was listed on the FBI's "Most Wanted" list, transported and sold alcohol during the Prohibition era, planned the St. Valentine's Day massacre, and was eventually indicted and convicted of income tax evasion in 1931. In 1939, he was released from Alcatraz prison on humanitarian grounds, due to acutely advancing syphilis. He died on January 25, 1947 in his home in Palm Island, Florida from cardiac arrest after suffering a stroke a week after his 48th birthday.[1] ProgramCapone had previously housed his headquarters at the nearby Metropole Hotel in Chicago, but in July 1928 moved to a suite at the Lexington Hotel, also in Chicago. Capone ran his various enterprises from this hotel until his arrest in 1931. A construction company in the 1980s planned a renovation of the Lexington Hotel and while surveying the building discovered a shooting range and a series of secret tunnels including one hidden behind Capone's medicine cabinet. These tunnels connected taverns and brothels to provide an elaborate potential escape route in case of a police raid. These discoveries led to further investigation of the hotel, notably by researcher Harold Rubin. Rumors said Capone had kept a very secret vault beneath the hotel to hold some of his wealth.{{fact|date=April 2015}} Geraldo Rivera had been fired from ABC in 1985 after criticizing the network for canceling a report on an alleged relationship between John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe.[2] He then hosted the special The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults which was broadcast live on April 21, 1986. The two-hour special (including commercials) was greatly hyped as potentially revealing great riches or dead bodies on live television. This included the presence of a medical examiner should bodies be found, and agents from the Internal Revenue Service to collect any of Capone's money that might be discovered.[3]When the vault was finally opened, the only things found inside were dirt and several empty bottles, including one Rivera claimed was for moonshine bathtub gin. After several attempts to dig further into the vault, Geraldo admitted defeat and voiced his disappointment to the viewers, apologizing as he thanked the excavation team for their efforts. Although it gathered criticism and became infamous for its disappointing ending, the program was the most-watched syndicated television special that year with an estimated audience of 30 million.[3] After the show, Rivera was quoted as saying "Seems like we struck out".[4] Geraldo said on the April 20, 2016 edition of the Fox News Channel program The Five that he went right across the street and got "tequila drunk" after the special aired, then went back to his hotel room and put the "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door. However, in his 1991 autobiography Exposing Myself, he wrote, regarding the event, "My career was not over, I knew, but had just begun. And all because of a silly, high-concept stunt that failed to deliver on its titillating promise." This was not the first time a vault was opened on live TV: in 1984, a safe recovered from the shipwreck SS Andrea Doria was opened. During the broadcast, all that was revealed were a few silver certificates floating at the top of the waterlogged safe. Peter Gimbel, who recovered the safe and arranged the TV event, said the media "felt ripped off because there wasn't a treasure".[5] Legacy and popular cultureThe program has been parodied in several films and television shows:
See alsoEaten Alive, a 2014 Discovery Channel special that drew comparisons and similar criticism when host Paul Rosalie was not "eaten alive" by an anaconda as hinted at in promotional material.[7]Notes{{Portal|1980s}}1. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14735502/al_capone_dies/ |work=Chicago Sunday Tribune |agency=Associated Press |title=Al Capone dies in Florida villa |date=January 26, 1947 |page=1}} 2. ^{{cite news |last1=Grove |first1=Lloyd |author-link=Lloyd Grove |title=GERALDO'S MAKEOVER |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1997/12/12/geraldos-makeover/0ff03c2a-922e-4853-afe3-a15c1fc8dea1/ |accessdate=July 29, 2018 |work=The Washington Post |date=December 12, 1997 |quote=In 1985, though, he clashed publicly with Arledge over the latter's decision to kill Sylvia Chase's report on (Arledge's friends) the Kennedys and Marilyn Monroe. Arledge demanded Rivera's resignation, ...}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|title=When Geraldo Rivera opened Al Capone's vault, he turned nothing into ratings|url=http://www.avclub.com/article/when-geraldo-rivera-opened-al-capones-vault-he-tur-244518|publisher=The A.V. Club|accessdate=2 November 2017}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=Capone Vault-Cracking An Unrewarding Blast|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GTJPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3gIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2436%2C8157641|publisher=Toledo Blade}} 5. ^{{cite news |last1=Bailey |first1=Moira |title=Andrea Dorea: Salvaging Profit Recovered Currency Means A Nice Payoff For Filmmakers' Work |url=http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-01-18/lifestyle/0190210215_1_andrea-doria-gimbel-luxury-liner |accessdate=November 19, 2018 |work=Orlando Sentinel |date=January 18, 1986 |language=en}} 6. ^{{cite news|last1=Shales|first1=Tom|authorlink1=Tom Shales|title=Hill Street, Hail and Farewell|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/05/12/hill-street-hail-and-farewell/a0ca950b-4fb6-46b0-aa51-0e7bd7b00411/|accessdate=February 5, 2018|work=The Washington Post|date=May 12, 1987|quote=And yet the same episode includes a funny lampoon of Geraldo Rivera, translated here into pompous TV personality Robert Dinapoli, who is going to blast open gangster Abe Calabrese's vault on live TV, just as Geraldo invaded Al Capone's.}} 7. ^{{cite news|title=Eaten Alive's snake stunt bit off more than it could chew|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/dec/08/aten-alive-anaconda-snake-paul-rosolie|accessdate=8 December 2014|work=The Guardian}} External links
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