The Untouchables (1987 film)
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Brian De Palma |
| Produced by | Art Linson |
| Screenplay by | David Mamet |
| Based on |
The Untouchables by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography | Stephen H. Burum |
| Edited by |
Gerald B. Greenberg Bill Pankow |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time
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119 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25 million |
| Box office | $106.2 million |
| Review scores | |
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| Publication | Score |
| CVG | 85% |
| Crash | 94% |
| EGM | 5.8/10 (SNES) |
| Sinclair User | 95% |
| Your Sinclair | 94% |
| Zzap!64 | 96% |
| The Games Machine | 96% |
| Awards | |
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| Publication | Award |
| Zzap!64 | Gold Medal |
| Crash | Crash Smash |
| Your Sinclair | Megagame |
The Untouchables is a 1987 American gangster film directed by Brian De Palma, produced by Art Linson, written by David Mamet, and based on the book The Untouchables (1957). The film stars Kevin Costner, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro, and Sean Connery. Ness forms the Untouchables team to bring Al Capone to justice during Prohibition. The Grammy Award-winning score was composed by Ennio Morricone and features some period-correct music by Duke Ellington.
The Untouchables premiered on June 2, 1987 in New York City, and went into general release on June 3, 1987 in the United States. The film grossed $106.2 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews from critics. It was nominated for four Academy Awards; Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
A prequel, The Untouchables: Capone Rising, starring Gerard Butler, was in development before being shelved.
During Prohibition in 1930, Al Capone has nearly the whole city of Chicago under his control and supplies illegal liquor. Bureau of Prohibition agent Eliot Ness 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 Irish-American veteran officer Jimmy Malone, 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 Capone's influence. They recruit Italian-American trainee George Stone (aka-Giuseppe Petri) for his superior marksmanship and intelligence. Joined by accountant Oscar Wallace, 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.
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