The Untouchables (1987)


Kevin Costner           Eliot Ness
Sean Connery            Jim Malone
Charles Martin Smith    Oscar Wallace
Andy Garcia             George Stone
Robert De Niro          Al Capone
Richard Bradford        Mike
Jack Kehoe              Payne
Brad Sullivan           George
Billy Drago             Frank Nitti
Patricia Clarkson       Ness's Wife
Vito D'Ambrosio         Bowtie Driver
Steve Goldstein         Scoop
Peter Aylward           Lieutenant Anderson
Don Harvey              Preseuski

Directed by:            Brian De Palma
Produced by:            Art Linson, Ray Hartwick


The story of FBI agent Eliott Ness's obsessive goal to bring down the notorious gangster Al Capone.

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Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to 
justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest 
of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to 
Eisenstein's "The Battleship Potemkin."

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1920's prohibition Chicago is corrupt from the judges downward. So in going up against Al Capone, Treasury 
agent Eliot Ness picks just two cops to help him and his accountant colleague. One is a sharp-shooting rookie, 
the other a seen-it-all beat man. The four of them are ready to battle Capone and his empire, but it could 
just be that guns are not the best way to get him.

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A depiction of the mob warlord who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago . . . and the law enforcer who vowed to bring 
him down. Stars Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness, Robert De Niro as gangland kingpin Al Capone and Sean Connery as 
Malone, the cop who teaches Ness how to beat the mob: shoot fast and shoot first.

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Young Treasury Agent Elliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is deternimed to take down Al Capone but he learns that 
it's not going to be easy, because Capone has the police in his pocket. But Ness meets Jimmy Malone a veteran 
patrolman and probably the most honorable one in 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. They recruit academy cadet, George Stone and 
Treasury agent Oscar Wallace, who is also an accountant, who wants to prosecute Capone for tax evasion. When 
they make headway, Capone tries to get them but they are untouchable.