COUDERSPORT — Coudersport’s fourth annual Eliot Ness Fest will mix Roaring ’20s fun, dozens of vintage cars and trucks, lively music and many other features spread out over three days, July 14-16.

One of the region’s biggest attractions, the festival recalls the famous American crimefighter who spent his final years in Coudersport, announced a recent press release.

Attendees are encouraged to dress in period costumes. A schedule of events along with parking instructions and other timely information can be found on the website, eliotnessfest.com.

As in past years, the popular “Eliot Ness vs. Al Capone” scenario will be played out — this time with several new twists, according to the release

It begins with gangsters slipping into town on Friday and brazenly setting up vice operations, including a Speakeasy Beer Garden operated by Coudersport Rotary. At 6 p.m., Capone and his cronies will hijack the main outdoor stage at Main and Second streets to announce that they have taken over the town.

But Eliot Ness and his “Untouchable” federal agents will have the last laugh, right after a Saturday afternoon parade that is going to be full of shenanigans and surprises.

Then, on Sunday, members of the Eliot Ness Fest Theatre Troupe will bring their schtick to a community picnic with games and music at the courthouse square.

Ness vs. Capone is just a small part of a festival that’s filled with variety, the release said.

Musical performers on the main stage in the center of town will include the Brass Machine Band (Friday, 7 to 10 p.m.); Old Guys Rock Ensemble (Saturday, noon to 2 p.m.), and the Buffalo Jazz & Swing Band (Saturday, 6-10 p.m.). Dancers can shake a leg on a ground-level stage.

Vendors will line the square on Friday and Saturday. A “kids’ corner” will be set up across from the square on Third Street.

Free bus tours, complete with colorful anecdotes, will embark from the Potter County Historical Society Museum to several local sites that were connected to the Prohibition Era in Coudersport. They’re scheduled from 1 to 4 p.m. on Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday.

As a tribute to a multi-faceted career that made Eliot Ness one of the world’s most famous law enforcement figures, this year’s festival theme is “Never Stop Fighting: Salute to Law Enforcement and First Responders.”

Local agencies will be joined by representatives from two of the agencies where Ness earned his claim to fame, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and the City of Cleveland Police Department.

ATF will bring along its state-of-the-art response vehicles and other specialized crime detection tools. Cleveland Police Historical Society will arrive in vintage vehicles and set up its mobile museum.