The Untouchables (1987) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!!

[@SansMerci1013]

The score by Ennio Morricone is dope AF. Propulsive, percussive and intense. It always fits the scene its in. Morricone was a genius.

[@TheMarcHicks]

Yep, 100% agree.

[@TheMarcHicks]

Morricone never composed a single bad film score in his entire career, IMO.

[@SuperWhofan1]

He is the 🐐 of composers

[@SPT1]

Just seen a documentary about Ennio Morricone in the theater (simply called "Ennio") it was dope, you'll love it if you love Morricone as much as me. And you should see Once Upon a Time in America if you didn't, his best score out of all the masterpieces he's done. And the movie is good too (DeNiro, James Woods, Joe Pesci, directed by Sergio Leone)

[@maxtew6521]

My favorite score he did was the one for Adrian Lyne's 'Lolita' (1997).

[@seanmcmanus2518]

Sean Connery won an Oscar for best supporting actor in this role.

[@mattjamison484]

"What are you prepared to do?"

[@BobCrabtree-ev4rz]

​@@mattjamison484Spoken in a strange American Scottish hybrid accent while cast as an Irish cop.The only inaccuracy in the movie that actually bothered me.

[@reesebn38]

Charles Martin Smith is great actor who's been around since the 70s. He's been in many things but his biggest clam to fame is "American Graffiti"(1973) George Lucas's coming of age masterpiece. This film is a must watch!! A great one-man show movie starring Charles Martin Smith is "Never Cry Wolf"(1983) which is based on a classic book, the film was a big success too when it came out. Fan fact Smith directed the first episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

[@straypigs]

American Graffiti is amazing. And so is Never Cry Wolf.

[@Echo4Bravo]

Unfortunately Disney plus won't put Never Cry Wolf on their service. It was released by Disney.

[@tawnieriekena7]

Yes. And The Buddy Holly Story.

[@countryoftheblind]

Yes, both excellent movies.

[@straypigs]

@@tawnieriekena7 omg, I forgot he was in The Buddy Holly Story, that's right! Very cool! I'm sure the "American Graffiti" connection didn't hurt getting that role! :D There is actually footage of him reading during Star Wars auditions (I think he was just doing George Lucas a favor and reading with prospective actors. He looks fit and not "geeky".)

[@dnllrnt]

Midnight Run has to be one of his most underrated and overlooked movies. The writing and his chemistry with Charles Grodin was excellent.

[@totallytomanimation]

I'll give ya' a case of fistophobia.

[@Halderic]

my favorite DeNiro film. this movie is a perfect film from start to finish with GREAT dialogue.

[@PurushaDesa]

Seconded. Wonderful tight script and great chemistry from the leads. And that bluesy Danny Elfman score is ace.

[@prettyteeth]

@@Halderic One of the greatest films of all time. Flawless movie with dialogue that my brother and Dad still use in regular conversation to this day.

[@angelomaurizio1668]

You stole my thunder, Laurent. I agree 100%

[@michaelcullen5308]

The train station scene is de Palma's homage to the Odessa Steps sequence in Battleship Potemkin, from 1925.

[@Jim73]

Was looking to see if I needed to make this comment. 😎

[@PJAvenger]

Youre either a film histrorian or just an old guy

[@JK-gu3tl]

@@PJAvenger Some people just love the process.

[@PJAvenger]

@@JK-gu3tl Some people dance cheek to cheek, some people dance

[@jp3813]

This film is stacked w/ talent behind the camera as well. Director Brian De Palma's other works include Carrie, Scarface, Carlito's Way, Mission Impossible, etc... The screenplay was written by David Mamet, who won a Pulitzer Prize for the play Glengarry Glen Ross, which was later adapted to a film starring Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey, etc... The music was composed by Ennio Morricone, whose name should be familiar to you after reacting to the Dollars trilogy.

[@jdnaz1288]

The soundtrack for this is amazing! Even things like that guy delivering breakfast to Capone, has a good score! Of course, the main song is top tier!

[@elcorado83]

And the wardrobe was designed by ARMANI. Its like the best of the best made this film.

[@shorap]

The accountant actor has been in some really good movies during his career. Some of my favorite were Starman and Never Cry Wolf. Both movies are definitely worth checking out

[@Madbandit77]

Charles Martin Smith was also in the American Graffiti films and Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid. He's also directed the Dolphin Tale films starring Morgan Freeman and the Buffy The Vampire Slayer pilot episode.

[@vincegamer]

And he played Satan in Northern Exposure

[@Jason_Van_Stone]

Ben Affleck?

[@mikeortiz6008]

Also American Grafetti directed by George Lucas pre Star Wars which also had Harrison Ford in it.

[@user-cs4fg1rm5k]

@@vincegamer and Frank Nitti is Ed's father

[@DocuzanQuitomos]

"Tax Evation" On an interesting sidenote: Capone argued that the federal government (the one that finally makes all tax collection through the IRS) could not try to collect taxes from illegal money; but a federal court ruling in 1927 determined that income from illegal activities were taxable; by that time it was calculated Capone got nearlly $60 million dollars anually (according to a Forbes calculation, that would be $891 million of 2020's dollars). Of course the ruling is a double sword: by declaring taxes for illegal activities you are recognizing you have commited crimes (the IRS won't chase you, but other authorities will) and if you don't declare taxes (or declare them as product of other activities), you are commmiting crimes in the eyes of the IRS. To the very end, Capone defended he had no taxable income; he was found guilty of 22 charges on that matter. "The sentence" The film gets a lot of liberties with the real events; but yeah: Capone was sentenced to 11 years in prison (a sentence that looks silly now, but back then was a huge deal). Capone didn't come out clean from it: first he was sentenced to a prision in Atlanta, but when it was discovered he had bribed the jail's personnel, he was moved to Alcatraz where his influence was virtually none. He was eventually moved to a mental hospital in 1939, because of the brain damage syphillis caused to his brain (an illness that, depending on the source, he caught before or while being in jail). He died in 1947, with the mental capacity of a 12 year old, according to one of his doctors. "Jimmy Malone" As mentioned, the film takes a lot of liberties with the real events (some consider the film as some sort of sequel or retelling of the TV Series, rather than an attempt to tell some history). According to sources, Malone's character is based on real life FBI agent Martin J. "Marty" Lahart, one of original members of The Untouchables. Lahart was not killed, like his fictional counterpart, and he lived to the age of 75 years (he died on July 2, 1975). According to one of the real Untouchables, Paul Robsky, they were never in real danger during the raids and it all could be described as routine work. "The baby scene" Actually, that's a reference from another, much older film: Battleship Potemkin from 1925. The setting is mostly the same: a battle in a set of stairs as a baby stroller goes down the steps. Both scenes are known by the same name: The Odessa Steps. "Frank Nitti" The gangster that kills Malone, and later gets the satisfactory death by "getting into the car" is a fictionalized version of Frank Nitti, real life enforcer of Chicago mafia back in the day. As with many elements of the film, Nitti didn't die as in the film: he got convicted of tax evation along Capone, although he got only 18 months. After his release, Nitti took over the place of Capone in the organization and kept it until 1943 when he (along several other gangsters) were indicted for extorting Hollywood film industries. The pressure of going back to jail (he developed claustrophobia after his first stay in prison, apparently), possibly suffering from cancer (according to some theories), and on top of that, facing the lack of support from other gangsters that blamed him for the indictments; Nitti drank heavily before his scheduled appointment with the grand jury, then walked with his revolver on railroad tracks near his home, then he shot himself three times in his head (he was too drunk the first shot missed the target and the second shot went through his head with no apparent damage to his vital functions). Interestingly enough (either by chance or because the writers of the film considered it was a good element to include in the film), the first shot Nitty took to his head only hit his hat due to his unsteady pulse. He was 57 at the time of his death. And that would be it, nice reaction :).

[@davidwoolbright3675]

It’s evasion. Tax evasion.

[@PJAvenger]

@@davidwoolbright3675 I evade all comments with jazz hands

[@JK-gu3tl]

Gov't just wanted a piece of the action.

[@NWAWskeptic]

Excellent points. I would also like to add the true details of the "book keeper". He was based on a man named Edward J O'Hare. He cooperated completely of his own volition. Informants were exceedingly rare compared to today so there was nothing even remotely close to witness protection and he was predictably killed by the mafia almost immediately after. His son, Edward(Butch) Henry O'Hare became a WWII flying ace and earned the Medal of Honor. The airport in Chicago is named after him.

[@motorcycleboy9000]

"Shot himself three times in the head." Well, even fictional Nitti was clumsy enough to trip off a building.

[@karlmoles6530]

"Did he sound anything like this?" One of my Top 25 greatest film moments

[@jamesfrench7299]

Pretty muuuucchhh *SMASH*.

[@brucebieberly4166]

Something DePalma did, which too few directors do now, was take his time with the scenes. The tension leading up to the station shootout was almost unbearable first time I saw this.

[@terryhughes7349]

Yes he was very inspired by Hitchcock

[@g13n79]

De Palma took this style of editing from Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin, and the union steps sequence is a direct homage to the Odessa steps sequence in that film. Hitchcock definitely took a lot of his editing cues from Eisenstein too, particularly Psycho.

[@help4343]

Has he directed anything worth watching after the first Mission Impossible movie?

[@vincelang3779]

@@help4343 There are his earlier films, of course, all of which are worth anyone's time who's interested. FEMME FATALE is quintessential DePalma and PASSION, though a failure in totality, is more ballsy and interesting than the safe, "shopping mall multiplex" pablum defecated by 99% of other directors working today. Your mileage may vary . . .

[@al9355]

Redacted is a brillant film but it's a tough watch. He bascally tanked his declining career for it, but it's one of the first and the most bitting anti-Irak war movies, and a experimental remake of Casualites of War, his own acclaimed Vietnam War movie. Basicaly, DePalma's angle is that Irak was a remake of Vietnam as another US tale of hubris, lies and violence, so he filmed another true story that happened exactly the same way in the two wars, but he volontarly degraded the form of the movie to adapt to the new fragmented media landscape. So it's also a movie about the mediatisation of the War: found images, TV reportages, internet videos ect. There's no stars in it, the movie is ugly, everyone sucks, and evil things keep happening. Fun times.

[@peteyn.y.7960]

- *DONNIE BRASCO (1997)* - *CARLITO’S WAY (1992)* 💪🏽💪🏽🔥🔥🔥

[@nenabunena]

Yes! But donnie brasco directors cut

[@michaeljames6817]

Donnie Brasco is my favorite Mafia movie. Johnny Depp's best performance IMO and maybe Pacino's too.

[@spikeinmadness5005]

Carlito's Way. Another rare classic "...the last of the Mo'Ricans" 😁👍

[@peteyn.y.7960]

Yessss FUHGEDDABOUDIT!! 😎😂

[@TTM9691]

Yes to Donnie Brasco!!!!!

[@philmullineaux5405]

The great Brian DePalma! Think of the first mission impossible movie. He was an assistant director of Alfred Hitchcock! So his movies have tons of single camera, no edits, strange camera angles, no dialogue, long minutes before the next camera shot, or dialogue. His opening scene of Snake Eyes, is a miracle! One of my all time favorite of his is an early movie called, Body Double!

[@davevannatta985]

Fun fact this was the first film that Sean Connery was ever shot in. He never wore squibs in his entire career including the 007 movies he did prior to this movie

[@dnish6673]

Not quite - the Anderson Tapes (1971), a movie about wiretapping.

[@coinsaver]

The man Capone killed with a baseball bat at his birthday dinner was the "inside man" informant in the grey coat of the "maple leaf umbrella" raid. After conviction, Capone was sent to Alcatraz Maximum Security prison. He was released to a hospital in 1939, his mind gone mush from Syphilis (doctors assessed him as having a 12-year-old mentality). He died in January, 1947.

[@longago-igo]

In my pre-teen years, we used to watch Robert Stack, as Eliot Ness, on tv in The Untouchables (1959-1963). It was quite a gritty crime drama.

[@emilytrott]

They had the greatest theme music too. ❤

[@GeneralZodFDNY77]

Connery has been my favorite actor of all time. His James Bond films, Highlander, Marnie, The Rock, Finding Forrester, loved him in anything. Him winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for this role was a chef's kiss.

[@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710]

" Darby O'Gill and the Little People ", Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Outland, The Wind and the Lion, The Man Who Would Be King, Zardoz, A Bridge Too Far, Meteor.

[@Sealdeam]

I would add The Hill there too, it is such a great movie Connery as usual was excellent there but the rest of the cast likewise gave some quality performances specially Ian Hendry as the antagonist.

[@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710]

@@Sealdeam Yes, " The Hill ", The Great Train Robbery, The Longest Day.

[@goldenager59]

I shall always regret that, instead of Laurence Olivier and Claire Bloom, Connery and Charlotte Rampling (his *Zardoz* co-star) were cast as Zeus and Hera in the 1981 *Clash of the Titans.* Olivier and Bloom were good choices, but Connery and Rampling could have been the *embodiments* of the divinities as far as I'm concerned (most particularly Connery with his thundercloud eyebrows). Both are Alpha with a capital "AL". ☺️ 😎

[@deborahcornell171]

​@@goldenager59 "Thundercloud eyebrows..." Perfect!🩵✨️

[@stubbornscorpio7]

The guy he killed with the baseball bat was at the liquor bust. He is the one who asked Connery for a warrant before he was hit with the shotgun.

[@frankgesuele6298]

This is based on the real dinner where he beat 2 guys to death who he found out were gonna make a move on him. That upset Capone😠

[@TTM9691]

I'm PSYCHED to see that "Cape Fear" came in SECOND! At last! Not a single reaction for this movie yet! It won't be long now!!!! That is going to make a FANTASTIC reaction! Ok, just had to say that before I watch the movie. Keep that poll going!! Cape Fear, King of Comedy (and Mean Streets): three essential De Niro/Scorsese films! PS: Brazil he's only got a small part in, but that's a fantastic one for a "futuristic" poll or " dystopian science fiction", ala "Clockwork Orange", "Matrix" etc Love you guys!

[@help4343]

Another one where he is the antagonist. At least in that one he is the antagonist with the most screen time, unlike this one.

[@victorm152]

what about Taxi Driver and The Deer Hunter?

[@help4343]

@@victorm152 They have already watched them on this channel.

[@One.Zero.One101]

King of Comedy is amazing. I feel it was a huge influence for The Joker movie.

[@TTM9691]

@@One.Zero.One101 Absolutely, King Of Comedy (and Taxi Driver) are directly the influence on "Joker", it's a total homage to those two movies (and other 70s films, to a lesser extent)

[@SansMerci1013]

"Where is Nitti?" "He's in the car." Omg, so many brilliant exchanges in this film.

[@reservoirdude92]

That's David Mamet for you haha

[@BDogg2023]

One of my favorite lines of all time.

[@FresnoCA93727]

The whole sequence in the train station with the baby carriage was one of the best scene ever in a movie. It was so well done.

[@rachardmcintyre6560]

RIP Billy Drago at 20:01, one of the best villains in movie history!!

[@slugerama]

His son Ivan was a pretty good villian in Rocky IV ;)

[@rachardmcintyre6560]

@@slugerama 😁😁🥊🥊

[@ryanh603]

Especially in Delta Force 2

[@bodine57]

For another great De Niro supporting role, check out "Angel Heart".

[@brewcityjesus]

It's a bit of a longer movie but Kevin Costner is great in Dances With Wolves and you should definitely check out Robert de Niro in A Bronx tale.

[@jonisilk]

Dances With Wolves is fantastic. I sat through it twice in day when it first came out. It was the first film that made me realised I wanted to make films (I was 11). Such an awesome movie, and the 4hr Directors Cut is even better, but with the theatrical cut being 3hrs already, I wouldn't be disappointed if they went for that one. BTW, if you do watch the film, both versions have intermissions in them, so you can take a little break (and maybe even split the review into two parts?)

[@synthetic240]

I'm not sure they'd be interested in a musical.

[@MDK2_Radio]

Dances With Wolves was the beginning of the end for Costner. It there’s a now-underrated Costner film they should see, it’s No Way Out.

[@jp3813]

@@synthetic240 **crickets chirping**

[@jp3813]

@@MDK2_Radio End? Oliver Stone's JFK was very good.

[@cyborgcable]

Sean Connery won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for this role. Truly deserved.

[@SuperWhofan1]

He played a good written role but didn’t deserve an Oscar. Any actor could have done it without much effort

[@IamnotJohnFord]

@@SuperWhofan1 Nonsense. He stole every scene he was in.

[@PadreDePato]

Everything good except the “Irish” accent 😂

[@rxtsec1]

Well he got it & I think it's well deserved

[@mrtim5363]

@@SuperWhofan1 Actually - I agree - With both of you... Any... 'Good Actor', could have done it without much effort. But it still required talent. He didn't coast thru it. Did his job & did it well. *The Oscar In the entertainment business occasional there is a great talent headed towards the end of their career & someone notices, holy crap! We've never given them a (Oscar/Grammy/Tony) & we don't want them to leave the business out without one because everyone loved their body of work. We liked this movie... This will do. Best supporting Actor for you! Whew😥 We don't want to hear, how come Connery never won an Oscar. & Quite frankly he deserved one all the way back in 1975, for "The Man Who Would Be King." So I don't feel bad about this questionable one. Felt it was long over due & a life long injustice had been corrected.

[@MikeB12800]

Deniro steals his scenes!!! “Enthusiasms”!!! And Connery is iconic in this. All the actors are great! “You got him?, yeah I got him!, take him” brilliant!

[@shainewhite2781]

13:06, "Fucking Camera!" Lol!!

[@TheDeadStretch]

Even of that list A Bronx Tale isn't a De Niro film in the same way this one isn't. Still two great roles he played in two amazing movies.

[@scottjo63]

However, it was DeNiro who directed it has well. DeNiro here, learned from the best for this one, Scorsese. A Bronx Tales has great shades of Goodfellows, narration, etc but very original on it's own.

[@christinadoxstader3004]

Bronx Tale is way more a DeNiro movie than this. He plays one of three key characters. Granted he isn't the main character but still, plus he directed it as well Highly recommended as well.

[@cjoli955]

There are a lot of great Sean Connery films, he is one of those actors that makes me watch a movie just because he is in it. I believe you guys have already watch The Hunt for Red October but a couple of other fun action ones from the 80s and 90s are The Rock, Entrapment, First Night, and obviously Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

[@shoujahatsumetsu]

You forgot Highlander!

[@tomhaskett5161]

Not an action film by any means, but he was good in 'The Name of the Rose'.

[@frankgesuele6298]

But this is the one that got him an Oscar😀

[@elcorado83]

You forgot Rising Sun.

[@Mr_Incognito113]

TIME BANDITS!

[@Dash277]

DeNiro isn't in it a whole lot, but it's an iconic role for him. That scene with the bat specifically. His speech was just a way of getting across that someone in his organization was not being a team player. Excellent way to show his brutality. Along with blowing up children. So many movies want to just tell you that the bad guy is bad. This one makes it extremely clear why Capone had to be brought to justice, and it's not illegal liquor. I think the taxes thing was he just couldn't show where the money was coming from, not just trying to avoid paying them.

[@roadrunner3100]

There's a very good documentary about Brian De Palma called 'De Palma' where they go over his entire film career and speaks about each film. He said, once in a while, when you're making a movie, everything comes together, everything works - the writing, the music, the actors, the costumes, the photography, the editing, everything. And for him, The Untouchables was one of those films. It's rare, but when it happens it's just magic.

[@lexkanyima2195]

It was innovating

[@toodlescae]

Capone reporting his taxes would mean admitting that he owned the businesses which he didn't want to do. That's why none of them were in his name. To be historically accurate..Frank Nitti wasn't in the car like Ness said. Frank Nitti was actually Capone's cousin, bodyguard and money man. When Capone went to prison in 1931, Nitti took over The Outfit after he finished his own 18 month sentence for tax evasion. He offed himself in 1943 when he was looking at another long prison term for extorting Hollywood studios.

[@alucard624]

What happened to Nitti here was much more satisfying versus real life. It's one of the few times along with the what if? finale/ending of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood that the fictional version of events was better.

[@frankgesuele6298]

He also didn't wear white suits or blow up kids.🤯

[@deanwalker9605]

That station shoot out scene is a masterpiece.

[@robertjewell9727]

The accountant is played by one of my favorite actors, Charles Martin Smith. Check him out in one of my favorite movies of all time AMERICAN GRAFFITI directed by George Lucas as well as NEVER CRY WOLF.

[@jeffrogers2180]

Never cry Wolf is one of those really good movies that's been invisible for all these years.

[@brad1092]

He's also great in Starman.

[@apple4935]

Obscure fact: Charles Martin Smith directed the very first episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

[@jeffrogers2180]

@@apple4935 Buddy Holly story too.

[@scottjo63]

And John Carpenter's Starman as well...also with Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen from Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

[@ManUEightythree]

Sean Connery had an unbelievable Charisma. He got an Oscar for this. Well deserved, I think.

[@lexkanyima2195]

So true. There is something about that it he felt is THE guy

[@izzonj]

Charles Martin Smith had a few notable roles nests this. He was memorable in American Grafitti. And he was basically the whole cast in "Never Cry Wolf, " which is an astounding film that takes place in the wilds of Alaska. I highly recommend it.

[@jerodast]

I recently saw _Never Cry Wolf_ with my father, who'd enjoyed it many years ago. Kinda wish his character went full on rage mode in that one too...

[@SuperStar5150]

Oscar winner Kevin's Costner's Film Dances With Wolves is cinema change watch!

[@LPJack02]

RIP and long live Sir Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 - October 31, 2020), aged 90 You will always be remembered as a legend. “That’s the Chicago way”

[@kingbrutusxxvi]

Perhaps apropos, but Al Capone died at 48 of a heart attack brought on by a very long battle with syphilis. He was released early (he only served seven of the eleven years) from his prison sentence because he was already very ill by his late thirties. For the last dozen years of his life he had the mental capacity of a child. As an interesting side note, he has one of the very first people treated with the then-new drug Penicillin.

[@peppyd]

If you want to watch more Connery, you'll have to watch "The Rock" with Connery and Nicolas Cage. Another great crime drama to watch is "Carlito's Way" with Al Pacino and Sean Penn

[@TBRSchmitt]

The Rock coming soon!

[@AregPone]

But you have to watch Connery's Bond films to watch The Rock. Edit: I'd like to submit exhibit A into evidence. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3fHn5isjc-kmsU

[@ActionJackson1982]

@@TBRSchmitt well if you’re gonna do The Rock, might as well do Con Air and Face Off. A kind of trilogy of Nicolas Cage action movies

[@zatoichi1]

@@TBRSchmitt AL Capone died 7 years after his release from prison. He died from disease he got while he was at The Rock, Alcatraz for 4 years. Another great review from you two! You should watch Ridley Scott's Black Rain with Andy Garcia and Micheal Douglas. And I'm not sure if you guys watched Naked Gun 33⅓, there is a hilarious parody of the baby carriage scene!

[@mil2k11]

Brian DePalma had some really cool films leading up to this during the 80s including Carrie, Dressed To Kill, Scarface & Body Double - all highly watchable films.

[@Matthew-00King40]

Don't forget his film Blow out. Excellent movie. One of the best thrillers of all time.

[@paulymar5996]

@Dayspring Blow Out is top notch and very underrated.

[@athos1974]

"Body Double" is a great 80's take on a"film noir" theme. Great suspense and plot twists.

[@GeneralZodFDNY77]

All great films by DePalma. I always found Scarface a good film but way overrated. But still a DePalma classic. Blow Out and Body Double are top notch all the way.

[@pappajudas9267]

The Phantom of the Paradise, It's a very unusual film, but it's another entertaining one by Brian DePalma.

[@robertrouse4503]

The Union Station staircase scene was based on a similar scene in the 1925 film, "Battleship Potemkin" directed by Sergei Eisenstein.

[@elizadennison7433]

Fun trivia: After the historical events depicted here, Elliot Ness became the Public Safety Director for the city of Cleveland, where I live. During his tenure there, Cleveland had a serial killer who was leaving butchered bodies, sometimes just parts, all over the city. Ness ran a huge investigation but the killer was never caught: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Torso_Murderer

[@fuckTrump-v7j]

"Do it for Sean!" My favorite online movie reactors for sure.😊😊😊

[@johnmaynardable]

The scene in the train station with the baby carriage falling down the steps is a reference to a classic silent film called The Battleship Potemkin that has a scene just like that. It is so famous it is known as The Potemkin Steps sequence.

[@GF_Baltar]

One of the best things about The Untouchables is the bombastic musical score by the legendary Ennio Morricone; he garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score for this movie (he didn't win, but he did get an Oscar in 2016 for The Hateful Eight). Morricone composed over 400 scores for movies and TV shows during his long career. He sadly passed away two years ago at the age of 91.

[@chefskiss6179]

"Thahnkhew-noh." Great post, you two. Thanks. Re: "(Connery) had an air about him." Lol, that really is scratching the surface.

[@aleatharhea]

The baby carriage scene was homage to the Odessa Steps sequence in the 1926 silent film epic, Battleship Potempkin (the baby carriage is in the last 2 minutes of a 12 minute sequence).

[@tonikaihola5408]

Also parodied in one of the Naked Gun movies 😅

[@mjwaldrep]

The baseball bat scene is iconic! De Niro gained a bunch of weight to play Capone.

[@YoureMrLebowski]

13:03 "f**kng camera" 🤣🤣🤣

[@brendag5263]

I am from Chicago, and when I was a young teen, I was in a taxi cab in downtown Chicago one day stuck in traffic by the Union Station. But I had no idea it was the Union Station at that time. I had never been to the Union Station before, but I was instantly drawn to the building and was overcome by a strong deja vu feeling. This was a few years before The Untouchables came out. When I saw the Union Station scene in the movie I got the same feeling again. If reincarnation is true, then I must have been to the Union Station in a past life, because it looked way too familiar to me to the point of kinda scaring me. It was like looking at a past home that you lived in as a child that you have not seen in decades. It makes me wonder if I lived in Chicago during Al Capone's rule....yikes 😬

[@n0madtv]

Ronin is a good Deniro film!

[@babyfry4775]

The story is basically true. Capone contracted a disease in prison so he was let out early but did die in 1947 of a heart attack. Elliot Ness was a real person. Kevin Costner was so young in this. Love Sean Connery. He was the first James Bond too. Andy Garcia played Stone. Good actor. Such a good movie. Even though DeNiro wasn’t in it much he was so good. Good reaction guys😄 Connery won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for this.

[@MLJ7956]

Great reaction you two... Kevin Costner (Elliot Ness) is a great Oscar winning actor, other great films with him are Dances With Wolves, Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves, Field Of Dreams, No Way Out, Bull Durham, The Bodyguard, Silverado, Thirteen Days, Waterworld, JFK, Open Range, The Postman, Message In A Bottle, For The Love Of The Game, 3000 Miles To Graceland, Mr. Brooks, Wyatt Earp - to name a few... Andy Garcia (Agent George Stone/Giuseppe Petri), other great films are Black Rain, Stand And Deliver, Internal Affairs, The Godfather Part III, Hero, When A Man Loves A Woman, Desperate Measures, Oceans Eleven, Oceans Twelve, Oceans Thirteen, Dead Again, Hoodlum, Jennifer 8, Steal Big Steal Little, Night Falls On Manhattan, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again - to name a few... Charles Martin Smith (Accountant Oscar Wallace) other great films are American Graffiti, More American Graffiti, Starman, Never Cry Wolf, The Buddy Holly Story, Deep Cover, And The Band Played On, Trick or Treat (1986), Herbie Goes Bananas, Speechless, Deep Impact, I Love Trouble, The Final Cut, Dead Heat, and Dolphin Tale 2 (which he also directed) to name a few... Sean Connery (Jim Malone) other great films are the James Bond films (Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice Diamonds Are Forever & Never Say Never Again - which is an 80s update/reboot of Thunderball), Outland, Highlander 1 & 2, Time Bandits, Murder On The Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King, Alfred Hitchcock's: Marnie, Robin & Marian, The Rock, The Hunt For Red October, Finding Forrester, The Name Of The Rose, A Bridge Too Far, Dragonheart (voice), Walt Disney's: Darby O'Gill And The Little People, Entrapment, the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade to name a few... Billy Drago (Frank Nitti/The Man In White) other great films are Pale Rider, Cutters Way, The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Invasion USA, Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection, Hero And The Terror, Tremors 4: The Legend Begins, North And South Book II, True Blood, China White, Vamp and lots of TV guest appearances (The X-Files, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., Friday the 13th: the Series, Moonlighting, Hunter, Supernatural & Charmed) to name a few... Patricia Clarkson (Catherine Ness/Elliot's Wife) other great films are Dirty Harry's: The Dead Pool (1988), The Pledge, The Green Mile, Jumanji (1995), Far From Heaven, Dogville, High Art, Everybody's All-American, Pieces Of April, Miracle, All the King's Men, Lars And The Real Girl, Shutter Island, The Maze Runner, No Reservations & Good Night And Good Luck, to name a few... Robert DeNiro (Al Capone) - well you know, I don't need to list his many film credits here do I? Other great films directed by Brian DePalma are Mission Impossible 1, Stephen King's: Carrie (1976), Scarface (1983), Sisters, Blow Out, Phantom Of The Paradise, Body Double, Casualties Of War, Raising Cain, Carlito's Way, Femme Fatale, Passion, Snake Eyes, Bonfire of The Vanities, The Fury, Mission To Mars, Domino, The Black Dahlia & Dressed To Kill, to name a few...

[@jdnaz1288]

Another pretty good film with Andy Garcia, is "8 Million Ways To Die". He plays the main villain in it...it also stars Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette & Alexandra Paul.

[@elcorado83]

NESS, NOT "NEST"!!

[@MLJ7956]

@@elcorado83 - Blame autocorrect 🙄🙄🙄

[@davidmckie7128]

Years ago in the UK we watched an American TV series called "Elliot Ness and The Untouchables" with Robert Stack as Elliot Ness. It was made in 1959 but I probably saw it in the 1970's.

[@jimtatro6550]

“Mr. Ness!!! I do not approve of your methods!” “Oh yeah? Well you’re not from Chicago.” This is a great movie in every way. Check out more DePalma

[@mrkelso]

Please! DePalma is a great director. "BlowOut", "Dressed To Kill", "Carrie", "Scarface"...

[@thehandyman2296]

Brian de Palma directed one of the best Gánster movie with Al Pacino “ Scarface “ if you haven’t watched it… be prepared

[@MarkTheMorose]

De Palma goes full circle in a way, since Scarface was Capone's nickname, which I think he didn't like. When he had his picture taken, he didn't like his scar showing.

[@alucard624]

@@MarkTheMorose The original Scarface movie was pretty much based on Capone. That film is definitely worth watching as well as the more known Pacino remake.

[@frankygunpowder]

Carlito’s Way is another De Palma/ Pacino film that’s worth a watch.

[@shainewhite2781]

27:44 to answer your question, it over $17 million dollars today.

[@Yora21]

"Knife to a gunfight" is from this movie, I believe.

[@TheMarcHicks]

The shoot-out in the railway station has become absolutely iconic....one of my all-time favourite movie scenes.

[@IamnotJohnFord]

That's how you do an slow-motion action scene. Not too much. Not too little. I can think of a couple of other films that do it just right as well: The Matrix and 300 come to mind.

[@THOMMGB]

One of the Naked Gun movies did a parody of the train station/baby carriage-on-the-steps scene. Was it Naked Gun 33 1/3? Can't remember, but it was good.

[@Energetiker]

The scene on the stairs is an hommage to a similar scene in the silent movie "Battleship Potemkin" by Sergej Eisenstein.

[@jimmyzee7040]

Dances with Wolves with Costner which won an Academy Award for best picture and director Costner and A Bronx Tale with DeNiro is a classic and great movie.

[@ephennell4ever]

One of the biggest liberties taken in the movie was that Ness was single at the time, so no wife & kid stuff in real life. But yeah, the movie was an *awesome* piece of story-telling! And the acting ... *anyone* here could've been legitimately nominated for an Oscar©! As for the train-station scene ... as someone who's worked on plays, and who's watched a *bunch* of behind-the-scenes/making-of pieces, I'm in awe at what it must have taken to do that! I wouldn't be surprised if it took 2 or even 3 days to shoot that scene! Heck, just blocking/story-boarding it probably took a whole day, or maybe two! *Excellent* reaction/review!

[@Tigermania]

The first film I think of with Andy Garcia is Black Rain (1989) so I hope that is on your list of films. Plus it has some good scenes to get reactions to :)

[@tokyochannel2020]

Black Rain another great really underrated movie.

[@SadPeterPan1977]

Things To Do In Denver When Your Dead is my favourite Andy Garcia movie. Great cameo from Steve Buscemi as Mister Shhh.

[@jannathompson2262]

Internal Affairs!!;)

[@MarkTheMorose]

@@SadPeterPan1977 That's the one I think of; great supporting cast including Treat Williams and Christopher Lloyd. Gentlemen, we have boat drinks!

[@kojiattwood]

Great choice!

[@jonasfermefors]

The true parts of this story are that Al Capone was finally taken down by a special force which included Elliot Ness for tax evasion. The rest seems mostly made up. When Capone went to jail he was just 33 years old, but he had syphilis, gonorrhoea and withdrawal symptoms from his cocaine addiction. He came out seven years later a broken man mostly due to syphilis. Capone was one of the first to receive penicillin treatment (for the syphilis) but his brain was already badly damaged. He died of a cardiac arrest in 1947 just over 7 years after his release from prison. He was 48 years old when he died.

[@TheBigJD100]

Loved this reaction. Midnight Run, Heat, A Bronx Tale, Raging Bull and Awakenings are other great DeNiro movies that should be added to your list. Along with The Untouchables.... Open Range, JFK, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Black and White, A Perfect World and Dances with Wolves are some of my favorite Costner movies. Other great DePalma movies to react to are Scarface and Carlito's Way...both starring Al Pacino.

[@TBRSchmitt]

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[@TheBigJD100]

@@TBRSchmitt I will check out your previous reactions and look forward to seeing your reactions to Scarface and Dances with Wolves.

[@fsociety7494]

@@TBRSchmitt Carlitos way such a classic.

[@lethaldose2000]

Sean Connery won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Harrison Ford and Mel Gibson were considered for the role of Elliott Ness before Kevin Costner was cast. The film was nominated for Best Original Score, Best Art Direction, and Best Costume Design

[@shainewhite2781]

30:15, "HE SOUND ANYTHING LIKE THAT!?"

[@YoureMrLebowski]

5:57 As he aged Sean picked his roles very carefully 😆

[@JAYSAL22]

“A Bronx Tale” definitely gotta be on your guys list truly a classic!

[@guscarlson7021]

The scene with the scooter bums in the bar was incredible.

[@straypigs]

Overrated, especially in terms of most of the other movies on that poll. And as unrealistic as "The Untouchables", lol.

[@JAYSAL22]

@@straypigs I disagree I think its underrated. Nobody talks about that movie as much as they should.

[@DanielCarrapa]

What a great movie. Brian de Palma is a master. Sure, this is not how action movies are made today, but the way he builds a scene just doesn't get old. Some great sequences in this movie, the highlights being the bridge sequence and the shoot out on the train stairs. Pure hitchcockian tension. This was also the movie where Kevin Costner really exploded as a star. He had done Silverado and some other smaller things, but he was just perfect as Ness. Also, what a great performance by Sean Connery. This is definitely one of his memorable roles. And btw, I don't think anyone knew who Andy Garcia was before this. This movie made him a star as well. Just one of the best from the eighties. Love your enthusiasm for movies btw, and I can see from the comments you gathered a huge growd of movie loving folks.

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

If only they did make 'em, like this still...

[@JohnBullard]

My fave DeNiro flick is RONIN, a European spy caper . He also played the monster in MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN.

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

He's good in those, I also love The Fan (1996) and the heist flick The Score (2001).

[@greigclement9081]

Billy Drago had a unique look to him that got him a lot of work as a villain

[@jdnaz1288]

Honestly don't know if anyone's told you this, but Connery won an Oscar for this role! Well deserved, for how fantastic he was as Malone!

[@stsolomon618]

Sean Connery was the highlight for me. Mr. James Bond, himself. Also, Brian De Palma directed Scarface, another gangster film with Al Pacino. Another must watch.

[@TheGoodChap]

Brian de Palma also Quentin Tarantino absolute favorite director for Blowout which has maybe the most haunting and impactful ending ive ever seen

[@stsolomon618]

@@TheGoodChap I love blowout

[@nikolatesla5553]

Charles Martin Smith. The member of the Untouchables you liked who was killed in the elevator was a a character actor I liked a lot. Particularly his roles in American Graffiti and Starnan.

[@lethaldose2000]

Al Capone was both loved and feared at the time, ruthless in his dealings with those that crossed him (see the baseball bat scene). Ultimately he thought he was a good guy, and he gave the locals gifts and employment. Many people were on his side till the St. VAlentine's day massacre. Before that people thought that Capone was giving them what the governement was denying them of a stiff drink after a hard day's work.

[@peterkoester7358]

Elliot Ness and the Untouchables were real people, though this film was a highly fictionalized version of the events taking down Al Capone. This film was actually a cinematic remake of a TV series from the 1960's that starred Robert Stack as Ness. Most of the characters - especially Malone - were composite characters made up of various real people involved in the actual real-world events. While married, Ness did not have any kids at the time he went after Capone. The real history is fascinating, but would have dragged as an action film since most of the investigations involved paperwork and trying to identify where Capone got most of his money from..

[@dabe1971]

Hope you find the time to watch 'Backdraft' from the list too. It seems to have been a bit forgotten but it's a great fun movie and technically superb - and many of the cast will tell you have real it felt !

[@assassinbeamish2544]

31:46 I love that you called that out. I have no idea what the courtroom looked like the day they nailed Capone, but that's kind of irrelevant in the context of this movie. Taking instead the allegory Al used during the opera scene, which is then reinforced with Ness's line at the end of the trial about "never stop fighting", this is not really the end of a courtroom procedure, this is the end of a boxing match. Everyone in the audience is freaking out (some because this is exactly what they hoped for, some because they are now standing to loose everything they bet on the italian). The cameras flash, the ref (judge in this case) tries to keep some semblance of order. The loser of the fight, being held up by his entourage. The winner just leaving amongst the chaos, smiling. It wasn't easy and he lost a lot along the way, from his friends in bloody fashion to a part of himself in the lines he crossed... but he beat his adversary, which in this case was all that mattered... he help up, pushed forward and came through... he did not let them down. God, I love this movie X3

[@ElDuderino84]

Now that you had more of a taste of Brian DePalma. I would strongly encourage you guys to watch his other films: Dressed to Kill, Blow Out and Body Double. DePalma uses so much of Hitchcock in his film. He also directed Carrie, Scarface and Mission Impossible

[@Dacre1000]

I am getting the impression that it is easier to see a reaction on the internet to the first Mission Impossible film than to something like Blow Out or Phantom of Paradise.

[@TTM9691]

Charlie Martin Smith, who played the accountant: his most famous role is in George Lucas' first (and in my opinion greatest) hit, "American Graffiti". GREAT movie, great cast, he's hilarious in it, I'm sure you'll check it out one day! / LOVED this reaction! Loved it more than the movie itself! It's a fun movie - not the greatest thing ever, by a long shot - plot holes all over the place, but in between the infinitely superior "Godfathers" (1972 and 74) and "Goodfellas" (1990) this gave mob movie fans something to chew on (De Palma's Scarface had come out a few years before, but that was not well-received at the time). Can't wait for "Cape Fear"!!!!!

[@yg713]

Great reaction as always. Other than this movie, my favorite movies with Charles Martin Smith are "Starman" with Jeff Bridges and "American Graffiti" which also have Harrisson Ford, Richard Dreyfuss and Ron Howard. For Andy Garcia check out "Black Rain" where he costars with Michael Douglas and of course the Ocean's Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen with too many co-stars to name.

[@desmoove]

Thanks! I was racking my brain trying to figure out where I knew Charles Martin Smith from and it was the "American Graffiti" movies. Watching both now

[@kathyastrom1315]

Andy Garcia is great in Branagh’s Dead Again. There is one scene of his that is burned in my memory forever.

[@duanedibley1551]

For something different. Slapshot, 70s comedy about Ice Hockey with Paul Newman.

[@michaelbastraw1493]

"Why didn't you just shoot the guy with a knife?" How does one shoot a guy with a knife? Best. Leo.

[@barryhickman6911]

The wife of Elliott Ness is the same actress as the wife of the warden (with the brain tumor) in the movie, "The Green Mile"!

[@parker469a]

"On October 18, 1931, Capone was convicted after trial and on November 24, was sentenced to eleven years in federal prison, fined $50,000 and charged $7,692 for court costs, in addition to $215,000 plus interest due on back taxes." "Al Capone died of cardiac arrest in 1947, but his decline began earlier. After his transfer to Alcatraz prison, his mental and physical condition deteriorated from paresis (a late stage of syphilis). He was released in November 1939 and was sent to a Baltimore mental hospital before he retired to his Florida estate." So he only did 8 years but was too sick to do much of anything for the last 8 years after being released.

[@lisakovanen1975]

"Falling in love" - your next Robert de Niro movie, with Meryl Streep.

[@andreatomassini5521]

If you want to see a great Connery's "mentor" role, watch the original "The Name of the Rose" from 1986 👍

[@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710]

Hi, good one. Plus, it has Ronald Perlman in his third film.

[@andrewcharles459]

You'll find Connery's best work in the adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King" with Michael Caine. Caine and Connery were both from the wrong side of the tracks socially and became fast friends working together, and it really shows on screen.

[@Yora21]

They both were perhaps the most modern action stars.

[@MichaelHill-we7vt]

Indeed, "The Man who would be King" is a truly awesome piece of cinema.......... I would love to see it reacted to, it is a wonderful movie.........

[@shainewhite2781]

19:13, "You're not from Chicago." Badass line.

[@LilannB]

I am surprised that you have only seen 2 Sean Connery films. Sean Connery was the original James Bond and starred in some of the best Bond films. Check out Goldfinger starring a young Sean Connery. The Untouchables was based on the 1950s TV series of the same name starring Robert Stack which was based on the book of the same name written by Elliot Ness. For another great 80's film also directed by Brian De Palma I would recommend "Dressed to Kill". A frightening Robert De Niro film is Cape Fear directed by Martin Scorsese.

[@lisawicks8205]

In November 1939, suffering from the general deterioration of paresis (a late stage of syphilis), Al Capone was released from prison and entered a Baltimore hospital. Later he retired to his Florida estate, where he died from cardiac arrest in 1947

[@wileydawgknows5326]

MIDNIGHT RUN is DeNiro's best movie after Taxi Driver. It's a great movie! Same director as Beverly Hills Cop.

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

An '80s classic for sure.

[@eatsmylifeYT]

If you want to see two of the greatest actors in the world in one movie, you should watch "Awakenings" starring Robin Williams and Robert de Niro.

[@jp3813]

How about "Insomnia" starring Robin Williams & Al Pacino?

[@guitarman8462]

The woman who plays Elliot's wife was also in " The Green Mile "

[@davezwieback4208]

I hope you have Ronin on your De Niro list. As always loved your reaction to this awesome film.

[@Renegade2786]

27:53 anyone that didn't notice, the officer is talking to Elliot Ness is Sheriff J.W. Pepper from *Live and Let Die* and *The Man with the Golden Gun*

[@cojeffhurleur]

If you like Sean Connery as mentor, you could react to The Name of the Rose.

[@MovieVigilante]

Charles Martin Smith is great in _American Graffiti._

[@reservoirdude92]

People put The Godfather in the highest regard, but for my money, Once Upon a Time in America is the greatest gangster film ever made. It's got a beautiful and iconic score by Ennio Morricone, incredible performances by the likes of Robert De Niro and James Woods, and a story that's violent, contemplative, epic, and even sad. Put that on your radar, guys. ❤

[@rjpg]

THE long Version is amazing....the theatrical release was so butchered.

[@GrosvnerMcaffrey]

It's not for everyone It's a very intense story with minimal likeable characters it took me a while to appreciate it I'm afraid they won't like it as much because its presented in a very confusing and cynical way

[@claudetteholloway1126]

I agree, and I have the movie...