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The Untouchables (film)

The Untouchables
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Theatrical release poster
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
Release date
  • June 2, 1987 (1987-06-02) (New York City premiere)
  • June 3, 1987 (1987-06-03) (United States)
Running time
119 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $25 million
Box office $106.2 million
Review scores
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
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 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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