The Untouchables (film)

The Untouchables is a 1987 American gangster film directed by Brian De Palma and written by David Mamet. Based on the book The Untouchables 1957, the film stars Kevin Costner as government agent Eliot Ness, Robert De Niro as gang leader Al Capone, and Sean Connery as IrishAmerican officer Jimmy Malone based on the real life IrishAmerican agent and Untouchables member Marty Lahart. The film follows Ness autobiographical account of the efforts his Untouchables team to bring Capone to justice during Prohibition. The Grammy Awardwinning score was composed by Ennio Morricone and features some periodcorrect music by Duke Ellington.

During Prohibition in 1930, Al Capone De Niro has nearly the whole city of Chicago under his control and supplies illegal liquor. Bureau of Prohibition agent Eliot Ness Costner is assigned to stop Capone, but his first attempt at a liquor raid fails due to corrupt policemen tipping Capone off. He has a chance meeting with IrishAmerican veteran officer Jimmy Malone Connery, who is fed up with the rampant corruption and offers to help Ness, suggesting that they find a man from the police academy who has not come under Capones influence. They recruit ItalianAmerican trainee George Stone Andy Garca for his superior marksmanship and intelligence. Joined by accountant Oscar Wallace Charles Martin Smith, assigned to Ness from Washington, D.C., they conduct a successful raid on a Capone liquor cache and start to gain positive publicity, with the press dubbing them The Untouchables. Capone later kills the henchman in charge of the cache as a warning to his other men.Wallace discovers that Capone has not filed an income tax return for several years and suggests that the team try to build a tax evasion case against him, since he is wellinsulated from his other crimes. An alderman offers Ness a bribe to drop his investigation, but Ness angrily refuses it and throws him out of the office. When Capone gunman Frank Nitti Billy Drago threatens Ness family, Ness has his wife Patricia Clarkson and daughter moved to a safe house. His team flies to the Canada United States border to intercept an incoming liquor shipment, aided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, killing several gangsters and capturing George Brad Sullivan, a Capone bookkeeper. Malone shoots a gangster through the mouth not revealing the man is already dead to scare George into agreeing to testify against Capone. ........

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