Elliot Ness is just assigned as the head of investigation in the Chicago police force, sanctioned by the State Department. The film chronicles the rivalry between gangster Al Capone and Ness as they both try to outwit and outgun each other, threw a series of action-packed and exciting adventures. Malone is an old Irish cop who wants to help Ness, and he does, by telling him exactly how to get to Capone and beat him, with his insider information. Charles Martiin Smith is the brains of the group, who can bring down Capone by using IRS laws against him. Andy Garcia is the marksman of the group, and he is recruited last, while they are looking for the best shooter in the Chicago P.D. trainee department. The Untouchables form a sort of internal affairs group, who can't trust any of their fellow cops, and thus go at it alone.
May not have much thematic depth, but it represents two hours of pure, exuberant entertainment – an epic gangster tale rendered on a grand scale.
Apart from Connery, the star of the film is Mamet's deadpan script, which obviously inspired one of the movie's baldest old-movie tributes.
De Palma's Untouchables, like the TV series that inspired it, depends more on cliches than on artistic invention.
 Kevin Costner |
Eliot Ness |
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 Robert De Niro |
Al Capone |
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 Patricia Clarkson |
Catherine Ness |
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 Andy Garcia |
Agent George Stone / Giuseppe Petri |
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 Sean Connery |
Jim Malone |
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 Brad Sullivan |
George |
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Production Budget - $25,000,000
Domestic Gross - $76,270,454 (6th)
Domestic adjusted for 2013 - $159,173,121
Filming locations:
40 miles south, Great Falls, Montana
Blackstone Hotel, Downtown, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Cultural Center, Downtown, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Hardin, Montana
Hardy Creek Bridge, Great Falls, Montana
Roosevelt University, Downtown, Chicago, Illinois
Union Station, Near West Side, Chicago, Illinois
Taglines:
1. The Chicago Dream is that big.
2. What are you prepared to do?
3. Never stop fighting till the fight is done.
4. AL CAPONE. He ruled Chicago with absolute power. No one could touch him. No one could stop him. - Until Eliot Ness and a small force of men swore they'd bring him down.
Music:
Mood Indigo
Written by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills and Barney Bigard
Arranged by Bob Wilber
Vesti la giubba
aria from opera "Pagliacci"
Written by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Performed by Mario Del Monaco
Conducted by Francesco Molinari Pradelli
Academy Awards Wins:
1. Supporting Actor - Sean Connery
Academy Awards Nominations:
1. Art Direction
2. Costume Design
3. Original Score
