The Untouchables

One of my all-time favorites. I don't know if I like Connery better, except maybe in Goldfinger. Garcia, it was all downhill from there.
Costner, to Nitti on the way down: "Did he sound anything like that?"

 

I've never been a big fan of DePalma because he insists on satirizing in the subtext. The movie is one maudlin, manipulative setup after another.

 

Details, details.

BTW, the scene with Capone and the baseball bat? Actually happened, where he beat the crap out of two of his (formerly) most trusted killers: John Scalise and Albert Anselmi at a banquet. They were the two who engineered the handshake murder of Dion O'Banion in 1924 that accelerated the Chicago North vs. South Side gang wars of the '20s

I know way too much about this stuff.

 

Impressive.

I am still trying to figure out what "latter" could be referencing in that post.

 

Good score by Ennio Morricone.

 

Interesting tidbit on the famous train station scene - DePalma planned for something else (I'm pretty sure it involved an actual train) but the studio nixed it because he was way over budget so he ended up improvising that scene. I believe it was shot at Grand Central Terminal in New York.

 

The baby carriage going down the steps.

 

Interesting tidbit on the famous train station scene - DePalma planned for something else (I'm pretty sure it involved an actual train) but the studio nixed it because he was way over budget so he ended up improvising that scene. I believe it was shot at Grand Central Terminal in New York.


Actually, the stroller scene was shot in Chicago's Union Station.

 

Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford turned down the role of Eliot Ness before Kevin Costner was signed.

 

Sean Connery

 

Harrison Ford could've pulled it off. I think Mel was wise not to take the role. People would've compared him to the Lethal Weapons character he portrayed.

 

One of my stupid habits...
On takeoff on a charter, since I can use my Ipod, I play the end title..
Don't know why, seems like good takeoff music to me.