The Untouchables - Gli intoccabili

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Despite his Oscar win for this movie, there was some amount of criticism directed at Sean Connery fo [...]	D
A television movie was made, starring Robert Stack, star of Gli intoccabili (1959), called The Retur [...]	D
Bob Hoskins was initially signed on to play Al Capone, but then Brian De Palma's first choice, Rober [...]	D
Movie debut of Patricia Clarkson.	D
Malone's line "They pull a knife, you pull a gun." was rule 2 of Kavinki's law as spoken by George C [...]	D
Robert De Niro insisted on wearing the same style of silk underwear that Al Capone wore, even though [...]	D
According to Brian De Palma in the "Making of" documentary, Mel Gibson was interested in playing Eli [...]	D
Brian De Palma took the idea of the train station scene from the Russian movie La corazzata Potemkin [...]	D
Robert De Niro tracked down Al Capone's original tailors and had them make him some identical clothi [...]	D
Brian De Palma also talked to Jeff Bridges and Gene Hackman about playing Ness and Malone.	D
Don Johnson was offered the role of Eliot Ness, but declined. Kevin Costner, a good friend of Johnso [...]	D
Jennifer Anglin's debut.	D
After enjoying a successful collaboration on this movie, David Mamet and Art Linson, as writer and p [...]	D
The only scenes that have Kevin Costner and Robert De Niro together are the scenes in the hotel lobb [...]	D
When Ness and the bailiff remove Frank Nitti from the courtroom, on account of Nitti wearing a conce [...]	D
There was originally a different ending for the movie. It was to have been a scene with the camera s [...]	D
The scene in which Al Capone pulls out a baseball bat at a dinner party and suddenly beats one of hi [...]	D
Brian De Palma said that at first he was a little reluctant to cast Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness, bec [...]	D
When Ness first meets the group of officers who were going to help him the lead officer called them [...]	D
William Hurt was considered for the role of Eliot Ness, but was too busy with other projects. He was [...]	D
Included amongst the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the four hundred movies nominated for th [...]	D
George Carlin is the voice in the radio broadcast program to which the Ness family was listening in [...]	D
At the end of the film, reporter Scoop asks Ness what he'll do if they repeal prohibition, to which [...]	D
Brian De Palma said that when he was filming the scene in the train station, he made up the series o [...]	D
The infamous dinner scene was based on an incident in Cicero, Illinois in February 1929, two weeks a [...]	D
Despite the final courtroom scene in this movie, the real Al Capone and Eliot Ness never came face-t [...]	D
Brian De Palma was once dubbed "Brian De Plasma" by author Martin Amis, as De Palma is a specialist [...]	D
Following their huge success with Witness - Il testimone (1985), Paramount Pictures wanted Harrison [...]	D
Brian De Palma previously directed Scarface (1983), which was a loose remake of Scarface - Lo sfregi [...]	D
Although the Chicago Outfit is an Italian-American criminal organization, it did not start off like [...]	D
The Chicago Mafia, also called the Chicago Outfit, was originally founded in the early 20th century [...]	D
Any police officer or federal agent seen drinking alcohol on-screen in this movie is killed.	D
Andy Garcia is a Cuban, portraying an Italian, who's passing himself off as a non-Italian American.	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2005 list of 250 movies nominated for AFI's 100 Years o [...]	D
An envelope is dropped on the desk of Eliot Ness in one scene. It is assumed to be a bribe, but the [...]	D
Though the patron saints of police are Michael the Archangel and Saint Sebastian, Irish police offic [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Most [...]	D
Sir Sean Connery turned up to the shoot in his golf clothes. They did a close open, and Sean was dis [...]	D
The baby in the carriage at the train station was the stunt coordinator's son.	D
In the scene at the bridge on the Canadian border, Elliot Ness is seen watching the arrival of Capon [...]	D
The camera work in the scene where Elliot Ness is in the airplane is identical to a scene in Il prig [...]	D
When Agent George Stone is introduced, Malone finds out that his real name is Giuseppe Petri, and he [...]	D
Jack Nicholson was also offered the role of Eliot Ness, but declined.	D
Eliot Ness and his role in bringing down Al Capone had been completely forgotten at the time of his [...]	D
Before his tax evasion conviction, Capone served 8 months at the Eastern State Penitentiary in Phila [...]	D
The radio show listened to by Eliot Ness and his wife early in the movie is an actual episode of Amo [...]	D
Although Sir Sean Connery appeared in well over seventy movies (eventually becoming one of the world [...]	D
Robert De Niro and Brian De Palma's last movie together (as of March 2019).	D
The first liquor raid was shot on LaSalle Street with period cars and extras. Ness and his men exit [...]	D
There had been talk that Brian De Palma was going to direct a prequel titled "The Untouchables: Capo [...]	D
The opera Capone is attending as he is informed of the successful hit on Malone is "Pagliacci." The [...]	D
This was the second of ten movies in which Andy Garcia and Richard Bradford appeared together. The o [...]	D
Tommy Lee Jones was considered to play Eliot Ness. Kevin Costner, who eventually got the part, would [...]	D
Actor and writer Clem Caserta (who plays as one of Capone's bodyguards) is a longtime friend of Robe [...]	D
Robert De Niro admitted his performance was heavily influenced by Rod Steiger's portrayal in Al Capo [...]	D
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was considered to play Catherine Ness.	D
Robert De Niro previously won an Oscar for his portrayal of Vito Corleone in Il padrino - Parte II ( [...]	D
Included amongst the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die," edited by Steven Schneider.	D
The voice we hear singing in the opera was that of famed tenor Mario Del Monaco, who died in 1982.	D
When early trailers began screening in theaters prior to release, they used the music from Ennio Mor [...]	D
Brian De Palma first noticed Andy Garcia in 8 milioni di modi per morire (1986) and first pictured h [...]	D
Robert De Niro didn't have much time to gain the extra weight needed for his role, so that he had to [...]	D
Fashion icon Giorgio Armani, who provided the costumes for this movie, told Brian De Palma that he s [...]	D
In real life Eliot Ness disliked guns, often wore an empty holster on duty, and never shot anyone in [...]	D
Another point that the movie didn't cover. Before Al Capone's trial, he had sent hitmen to kill the [...]	D
Brian De Palma later modified the battle-on-the-train sequence he planned for this movie, and used i [...]	D
Producer Art Linson was not a fan of Gli intoccabili (1959) television series.	D
When Capone's men are trying to smuggle the bookkeeper out of town, they are going to put him on boa [...]	D
Mission: Impossible (1996) and this movie are not only Brian De Palma's highest grossing movies, but [...]	D
According to director Brian De Palma and producer Art Linson in the DVD documentary, it was Sir Sean [...]	D
The scene where Al Capone shouts "I want his family dead!" was sampled in Tupac Shakur's song "Death [...]	D
In real life, Eliot Ness brought the only non-tax-related charges against Al Capone, which resulted [...]	D
By being killed at home and not on shift, Malone ironically fulfilled his first rule of law enforcem [...]	D
Cinematographer Stephen H. Burum originally wanted to film the movie in black-and-white.	D
Valentino Cimo, who plays Capone's bodyguard Frank Rio (the one Ness punches in the nose and shoots [...]	D
The character of Oscar Wallace (Charles Martin Smith) was loosely based on Frank Wilson, the IRS age [...]	D
The point-of-view scene where the camera enters the hotel, takes the elevator up to Capone's penthou [...]	D
Brian De Palma was not a fan of Gli intoccabili (1959) when he was growing up.	D
In real life, Al Capone, knowing that killing a Prohibition agent would only lead to more trouble th [...]	D
In the original script, the final gunfight had Eliot Ness and George Stone battling Capone gunmen on [...]	D
For anyone surprised while visiting Union Station that there are TWO identical staircases facing Can [...]	D
Brian De Palma was at first reluctant to use the lullaby theme that was composed for the train stati [...]	D
The cast includes three Oscar winners: Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro, and Sir Sean Connery; and two [...]	D
Theatrical movie debut of Patricia Clarkson (Ness' Wife).	D
Jack Kehoe plays Walter Payne. Sir Sean Connery played the role of "Jack Kehoe" in I cospiratori (19 [...]	D
Sean Connery's only Oscar nomination (and win) came from this film.	D
Alec Baldwin, Nicolas Cage, Michael Douglas, Rutger Hauer, Ed Harris, William Hurt, Don Johnson, Mic [...]	D
Albert H. Wolff, the last survivor of the real-life Untouchables, was a consultant on this movie, an [...]	D
Marlon Brando refused $5 million for two weeks' work as Al Capone during early casting. He was repla [...]	D
Director Brian De Palma and Robert De Niro previously collaborated on Ciao America (1968), Oggi spos [...]	D
Paramount Pictures made this movie because they still held the filming rights to Eliot Ness' autobio [...]	D
This movie portrays Eliot Ness as being happily married, and his wife having a daughter and a baby s [...]	D
Body Count: 24	D
The real Frank Nitti did not die in the manner and at the time depicted in this movie. He took over [...]	D
One point about Al Capone's trial that never showed up in the movie. He attempted to plea bargain be [...]	D
Brian De Palma: [filming technique] The close-up of Malone and Ness in the blood oath scene was shot [...]	D
Mickey Rourke turned down the role of Eliot Ness.	D
Brian De Palma met with Tom Berenger and Nick Nolte to find out if they were interested in playing E [...]	D

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