The Untouchables

Is on CityTV up here in Canada.

It's one of my favourite movies.

Connery is awesome in this.

I almost cry every time he dies.

 

This was the first date with the future Mrs. Birdscribe. Love this movie, except the part where Charlie Martin Smith and Connery die.

Of course, that's redeemed by Costner (as Eliot Ness) throwing Frank Nitti off the roof and crashing into the parked car, then telling the inquiring Andy Garcia "He's in the car."

Phenomenal cinematography, especially in the train station.

 

David Mamet script as well. This one gets a yearly viewing as part of the "Dammit, Mamet" festival.

 

Some nice set pieces . . . especially the shootout on the bridge at the Canadian border . . . but
Costner looks more and more wooden, every time I peek at it . . .

 

No more wooden than Robert Stack in the tv series. And Eliot Ness was actually a party animal.

 

They send one of your people to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the MORGUE. THAT's the ChiCAGo way.

 

I'll be impressed if someone here can identify the film to which the latter was an homage of sorts by De Palma.

 

He has so many great lines and scenes in the movie.

Let's cut the woofing, pal. You tell me, or you're going to hospital or the fuckin' morgue!

lsn't that just like a wop? Brings a knife to a gun fight. Get out of here, ya dago bastard!

 

The Battleship Potemkin. Sergei Eisenstein.

 

I absolutely hate this movie.

 

Of course, Nitti shot himself in late NINETEENFORTYTHREE, for pete's sake. . . but don't let that spoil the story, boys . . .

 

In particular, the staircase scene with the stroller. Classic in both cases.