• 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.

• Fast Facts

  1. Release Date: June 2, 1987
  2. Director: Brian De Palma
  3. Producer: Art Linson
  4. Writer: David Mamet
  5. Starring: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Andy Garcia, Charles Martin Smith, Robert De Niro, Patricia Clarkson and Billy Drago
  6. Box Office Gross: $76 million
  7. Sean Connery received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
  8. Based on the 1959 ABC television series

• 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."

• Related Mahalo Pages

  Brian De Palma | Kevin Costner | Sean Connery | Andy Garcia | Robert De Niro | Patricia Clarkson | Scarface | Capone Rising | The Godfather Films | Al Capone | Prohibition | Italy | Chicago | Illinois | Give 'Em Hell Malone

Categories

Would you like to become this page's manager? Mahalo pages can make up to $50 a month.

 

What is this?

View Top Managers

• View History
• Discuss on the Message Board
• Embed this Page
• Share this page