This big screen, big star crowd-pleaser is a whopping entertainment yet too disjointed to satisfy as a gangster movie. It can ignore history to make its points, but what is gained by killing off the only characters we really love? Audiences didn’t feel shortchanged: Sean Connery and Robert De Niro deliver strong characterizations and Ennio Morricone’s music is ideal. Brian De Palma’s visual instincts are at full strength too; the show is marvelous to look at. It’s a real winner, at least when its not running in knee-jerk Scarface overkill mode.
The Untouchables 4K
4K Ultra HD + Digital
Paramount
1987 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 119 min. / Street Date May 31, 2022 / Available from Amazon / 25.99
Starring: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro, Richard Bradford, Jack Kehoe, Brad Sullivan, Billy Drago, Patricia Clarkson, Steven Goldstein, Del Close, Clifton James.
Cinematography: Stephen H. Burum
Art Director: William A.
The Untouchables 4K
4K Ultra HD + Digital
Paramount
1987 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 119 min. / Street Date May 31, 2022 / Available from Amazon / 25.99
Starring: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro, Richard Bradford, Jack Kehoe, Brad Sullivan, Billy Drago, Patricia Clarkson, Steven Goldstein, Del Close, Clifton James.
Cinematography: Stephen H. Burum
Art Director: William A.
- 6/4/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The only thing more terrifying, interesting, gut-turning, or even heart-warming than watching a film that someone created entirely on their own is to watch one that has been inspired by true events. Whether it be an inspiring story about how one overcame an obstacle, a horrific tale of a serial killer, or the tale of a rock legend, these films grab hold of their audience and take them along on their journey. With The Rite coming out this week, and it being .based on true events. we figure it.s a great segue into this weeks top ten.
Top Ten: Based On True Events Honorable Mention: Alive
Plane crashes are one of my worst fears. In Alive (1993), a Rugby team is stranded in the Andes Mountains after their plane crashes and they are put to the test in order to survive. Freezing temperatures, dying friends, injuries and a lack of...
Top Ten: Based On True Events Honorable Mention: Alive
Plane crashes are one of my worst fears. In Alive (1993), a Rugby team is stranded in the Andes Mountains after their plane crashes and they are put to the test in order to survive. Freezing temperatures, dying friends, injuries and a lack of...
- 1/26/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The only thing more terrifying, interesting, gut-turning, or even heart-warming than watching a film that someone created entirely on their own is to watch one that has been inspired by true events. Whether it be an inspiring story about how one overcame an obstacle, a horrific tale of a serial killer, or the tale of a rock legend, these films grab hold of their audience and take them along on their journey. With The Rite coming out this week, and it being “based on true events” we figure it’s a great segue into this weeks top ten.
Top Ten: Based On True Events Honorable Mention: Alive
Plane crashes are one of my worst fears. In Alive (1993), a Rugby team is stranded in the Andes Mountains after their plane crashes and they are put to the test in order to survive. Freezing temperatures, dying friends, injuries and a lack of...
Top Ten: Based On True Events Honorable Mention: Alive
Plane crashes are one of my worst fears. In Alive (1993), a Rugby team is stranded in the Andes Mountains after their plane crashes and they are put to the test in order to survive. Freezing temperatures, dying friends, injuries and a lack of...
- 1/26/2011
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
You wanna know how you write a Motion History? Here's how -- someone suggests a movie, you agree. You watch the movie, you hit the library. When the library fails, you yell at your keyboard and go to Google. And then you're glad the Motion History deadline moved. That's the Chicago Cinematical way.
All corny quoting aside, that's exactly what happened. I fully expected to be able to find The Untouchables (the original book actually penned by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley) at the library. I thought it would have Kevin Costner on the front. I thought this topic would be as slick to pin down as getting Al Capone on tax evasion. I was wrong, and I'm surprised and saddened to be wrong. Eliot Ness is an American legend. So much of his life and career has become embedded in pop culture that I thought his autobiography (as fluffy...
All corny quoting aside, that's exactly what happened. I fully expected to be able to find The Untouchables (the original book actually penned by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley) at the library. I thought it would have Kevin Costner on the front. I thought this topic would be as slick to pin down as getting Al Capone on tax evasion. I was wrong, and I'm surprised and saddened to be wrong. Eliot Ness is an American legend. So much of his life and career has become embedded in pop culture that I thought his autobiography (as fluffy...
- 7/15/2010
- by Elisabeth Rappe
- Cinematical
The Untouchables is the classic crime TV series that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC, based on the novel by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, following the adventures of Ness, the Prohibition agent, who fought gangsters in 1930's Chicago with the help of a special team of agents nicknamed the 'Untouchables'. The mostly violent stories revolved around Ness' enmity with the criminal empire of Chicago mob boss 'Al Capone', starring actor Robert Stack as Ness and Bruce Gordon as 'Frank Nitti'. Desilu produced 118 episodes, introduced by radio newsman Walter Winchell, featuring memorable orchestrated theme music by Nelson Riddle. Notable guest-stars included actors Jack Lord, Lee Marvin, James Caan, Mike Connors, Martin Balsam, Peter Falk, Telly Savalas, Lee Van Cleef, Charles Bronson, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York. Click on any of the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek a clip from an episode of The Untouchables.
- 9/7/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
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