Overview:
Young Treasury Agent Eliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jim Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most honorable one on the force. He asks Malone to help him get Capone, but Malone warns him that if he goes after Capone, he is going to war.| Status: | Released (1987-06-03) |
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| Awards: | Won 1 Oscar. 11 wins & 18 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $76,270,454 |
| Screen: | David Mamet, Oscar Fraley, Eliot Ness |
| Productions: | Paramount Pictures, The Linson Company |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 1269: Kevin Costner - Eliot Ness
- 738: Sean Connery - Jim Malone
- 1270: Charles Martin Smith - Oscar Wallace
- 1271: Andy García - George Stone
- 380: Robert De Niro - Al Capone
- 1272: Richard Bradford - Mike
- 1273: Jack Kehoe - Payne
Crews
- 1254: Art Linson - Producer - Production
- 1261: Hal Gausman - Set Decoration - Art
- 1258: Stephen H. Burum - Director of Photography - Camera
- 1255: David Mamet - Writer - Writing
- 1259: Ennio Morricone - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 1260: William A. Elliott - Art Direction - Art
- 1262: Mali Finn - Casting - Production
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Reviews
John Chard
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Never stop fighting till the fight is done, here endeth the lesson. As good a gangster movie that has ever been made as DePalma does justice to Mamet's electric script. The acting on show is right out of the top draw, the inevitable ease that DeNiro puts menace into Capone is quit ....
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Howard Hawks defined a great film as “three good scenes and no bad ones.” The Untouchables has one of the greatest scenes in the history of cinema, and not just because it’s patterned after the best known scene in Battleship Potemkin; this has actually become iconic in its own right. ....
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