The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults

The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults
Title screen
GenreReality
Directed byBill Foster
StarringGeraldo Rivera
Buddy Rogers
Robert St. John
Production
ProducersJohn Joslyn
Doug Llewelyn
Running time120 minutes
Original release
ReleaseApril 21, 1986 (1986-04-21)
Infobox instructions (only shown in preview)

The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults is a two-hour American television special that was broadcast live in syndication on April 21, 1986, hosted by Geraldo Rivera. It centered on the opening of a walled-off underground room in the Lexington Hotel in Chicago once owned by the crime lord Al Capone, which turned out to be empty except for debris. Thirty million people watched, making it the highest-rated syndicated special in history.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.