The Untouchables

  • The Untouchables is an Academy Award-winning film based on the true story of Treasury officer Eliot Ness and his attempts to put Al Capone on trial during the organized crime boom during Prohibition.
  • Film Influences

    One of the film's most memorable action sequences is an homage to the Odessa steps scene in Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin. In Eisenstein's film, a Czar's soldiers march down a wide outdoor staircase, slaughtering families. In The Untouchables, Ness and his men chase down the steps to stop a baby carriage from flying down the stairs during a shoot-out with gangsters.

    The sequence is regarded as an exciting and stylish example of film montage, popularized by Russian filmmakers in the 1920s.

  • Quotes

    • "I want him dead! I want his family dead! I want his house burned to the ground!"
    • "You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word."
    • "If you're afraid of getting a rotten apple, don't get it from the barrel, get it off the tree."

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