History Main / TheUntouchables

*** I believe technically his last words were AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
*** "[[BerserkButton DID IT SOUND ANYTHING LIKE THAT]]?"

** Even worse, a reporter notes that Prohibition, the law that enabled Capone to build up his criminal empire, may be getting repealed soon (it historically, it was repealed, two years after Capone's arrest), meaning that Congress had figured out the law was a mistake, and that the whole thing was a mistake. So Malone and Wallace died for almost nothing.

-->'''RCMP Captain''': ''[[{{Understatement}} I do not approve of your methods.]]''

* DyeingForYourArt: [=DeNiro=] gained 80 pounds for his role as Capone, and even insisted on wearing the same clothes Capone did, right down to his silk underwear.

* ConsolationAward: a conversation in the film ''{{Trainspotting}}'' suggests that Connery received the nod for Best Supporting Actor for this reason.

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Capone is a CompleteMonster who orders the deaths of children and beats men to death with baseball bats. Ness is all-American Hero who loves nothing more his family and getting notes from his wife in his lunch

*** This quote also qualifies as EvilGloating.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Recognize the alderman who present's Capone's bribe to Ness early in the film? That would be Chicago teacher/actor/improv superhero Del Close.

* ManInWhite: Frank Nitti
* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler: Jim Malone]]

---> '''Malone''': Just like a wop: bringing a knife to a gunfight!

* OfficerOHara: Malone
* PsychoForHire: Frank Nitti
* PutDownYourGunAndStepAway: subverted
* SchiffOneLiner: "I think I'll have a drink"

** Also an example of WhereDoYouThinkYouAre

* ChekhovsGunman: The mobster with the bowtie. He is seen several times, particularly when he [[spoiler:lures Malone out to be shot by Nitti]] and is later the one who takes the bookkeeper hostage on the train station steps [[spoiler:and gets shot by Stone]]., times, particularly when he [[spoiler:lures Malone out to be shot by Nitti]] and is later the one who takes the bookkeeper hostage on the train station steps [[spoiler:and gets shot by Stone]].

* CarCushion: [[spoiler:Frank Nitti after being thrown off the roo, times, particularly when he [[spoiler:lures Malone out to be shot by Nitti]] and is later the one who takes the bookkeeper hostage on the train station steps [[spoiler:and gets shot by Stone]].

* CarCushion: [[spoiler:Frank Nitti after being thrown off the roof by Eliot Ness]].
* ChekhovsGunman: The mobster with the bowtie. He is seen several times, particularly when he [[spoiler:lures Malone out to be shot by Nitti]] and is later the one who takes the bookkeeper hostage on the train station steps [[spoiler:and gets shot by Stone]].

* BadAssBookWorm: Oscar after he joins the team.

-->--'''Jimmy Malone''' (SeanConnery) in the movie

-->--'''Jim Malone''' (SeanConnery) in the movie

*** This came after [[spoiler:Eliot refused to shoot Frank on the principle of upholding the law and common decency.]] This is why you shouldn't taunt the cops while you're getting arrested.

A prequel, ''TheUntouchables: Capone Rising'', is currently in DevelopmentHell.

Ness also investigated the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Torso_Murderer Cleveland Torso Murders]], but could not find the killer.

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* FourTemperamentEnsemble:
** Elliot Ness- Melancholic(black bile)
** Jimmy Malone- Choleric(yellow bile)
** George Stone- Phlegmatic(phlegm)
** Oscar Wallace- Sanguine(blood)

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