The Untouchables written by Oscar Fraley, Eliot Ness, directed by Brian de Palma has won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Sean Connery, and it is a wondrous motion picture – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

The Untouchables written by Oscar Fraley, Eliot Ness, directed by Brian de Palma has won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Sean Connery, and it is a wondrous motion picture – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

9 out of 10

 

Let me put in here my conclusion: https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/confidence-man-making-of-donald-trump.html Eliot Ness fights Al Capone and wins, the mob boss is sent to jail for many years, I think it was Alcatraz, alas, another gangster has won, he is now the quintessential Godfather and controls much of the world

 

Kevin Costner is formidable as the hero, Eliot Ness, incorruptible, determined, brave, resilient, intelligent – he seems to have no chance, his men are killed, corruption is pervasive, and Al Capone appears to control everything, he has infiltrated the police department and his violence is gruesome, we have a terrible scene here:

He finds an informer, there is this big table with various mobsters, Capone aka fantastic Robert de Niro takes a baseball bat and hits the ‘rat’, or presumed ‘guilty party’ on the head, blood and presumably brains are spilled on the white tablecloth and the suspect is murdered with atrocious aggressiveness…now we have a change

 

Kevin Costner had the role of Wyatt Earp https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/05/wyatt-earp-written-and-directed-by.html a film I have seen again recently, but Sean Connery ‘steals the show’ in a way, he won the Oscar for the role of Jim Malone, this tough hero, who has some outstanding scenes, such as

The one where they try and stop this group of cars, they chase the mobsters, one of them is killed, and they have a potential witness, but they need to scare the fellow, otherwise he will not cooperate, switch sides, so Connery aka Malone takes the body of the dead villain, pushes and pretends he wants to shoot him

 

Except he is dead already, so there is no ‘harm’ in shooting him again, which Malone does, and the terrified captive immediately cooperates https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/02/making-movies-by-sydney-lumet-if-you.html Sydney Lumet writes about working with Sean Connery and the funny aspect, as I saw it…

Of putting Connery and Al Pacino in the same frame, one is so tall, and the other much smaller…there are a few other stories, Brain de Palma talks in an excellent documentary about The Untouchables, and how Sean Connery was hurt during the filming of a severe attack, let me just keep it at that, avoid spoiler alerts so late

 

Liam Neeson was confessing on a talk show that he used to call his agent and use the Sean Connery voice, because the latter was such a big star, and Neeson was just growing at that time, and the agent would take a call from Connery no matter what, whereas he would keep Neeson waiting…then there is the amusing use of the ‘I have a special set of skills’ quote from Taken

 

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