History Trivia / TheUntouchables

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/VanJohnson, Creator/FredMacMurray, and Creator/CliffRobertson were considered for Elliot Ness.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/VanJohnson, Creator/FredMacMurray, and Creator/CliffRobertson were considered for Elliot Ness.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/FredMacMurray and Creator/CliffRobertson were considered for Elliot Ness.

* NamesTheSame: Cameron Mitchell played a character named Johnny Paycheck in "Ain't We Got Fun?". Not sure if Mitchell could sing as well as country legend Paycheck.

** ''Film/SuperCop'' on the other hand uses a "durian", [[note]] A Malaysian fruit with a hard, spiky shell [[note]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/FredMacMurray and Creator/CliffRobertson considered for Elliot Ness.

* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/JackLord was considered for Elliot Ness. He did make a guest appearance.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/FredMacMurray was considered for Elliot Ness.

!!The TV series

!!The 1987 movie
* ActorInspiredElement: It was Creator/SeanConnery's idea to film the "blood oath" scene between Ness and Malone in a Catholic church. Originally it was going to take place on the street (in the same scene that follows the church scene). Connery felt that a church would be the only "safe" place in Chicago where the two characters would make such a commitment to fight Capone.
* CaliforniaDoubling: The Canadian Border raid was filmed at Hardin, Montana, which is about as far away from the Canadian border as you can get while still being in Montana.
* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/AndyGarcia was originally considered for Frank Nitti.
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Sweden, the film was called "De omutbara", meaning "The Unbribable [Ones]" ; the French title, "Les Incorruptibles", means exactly the same thing.
* DawsonCasting: Creator/RobertDeNiro was 43 at time of filming, playing UsefulNotes/AlCapone, who was 31 at the time of the movie's events.
* DyeingForYourArt [=/=] MethodActing: Creator/RobertDeNiro gained 30 pounds for his role as Capone, and (allegedly) even insisted on wearing the same clothes Capone did, right down to his silk underwear.
* EnforcedMethodActing: For his death scene, Creator/SeanConnery did not expect the squibs to be as explosive as they were. After the first take, he was taken to the hospital with dust and fake blood in his eyes.
* FakeIrish: Edinburgh-born Creator/SeanConnery as Jimmy Malone.
* FakeNationality: Havana-born Creator/AndyGarcia as an Italian-American (first generation), and the Kansas-born Chiricahua Apache/Romani Creator/BillyDrago as an Italian.
* RealLifeRelative: The baby in the carriage at the train station is the film's stunt coordinator's son.
* StarMakingRole: For Creator/KevinCostner and Creator/AndyGarcia.
* ThrowItIn: Creator/KevinCostner ad-libbed the line "He's in the car," after [[spoiler:throwing Nitti off of the roof]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/MelGibson turned the role of Eliot Ness down in order to star in ''Film/LethalWeapon''. Other candidates were Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/TomBerenger, Creator/JeffBridges, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/MichaelDouglas, Creator/HarrisonFord, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/RutgerHauer, Creator/EdHarris, Creator/WilliamHurt, Creator/DonJohnson, Creator/TommyLeeJones, Creator/MichaelKeaton, Creator/ChristopherLambert, Creator/StephenLang, Creator/JohnMalkovich, Creator/JackNicholson, Creator/NickNolte, Creator/RonPerlman, Creator/MickeyRourke, Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/JohnTravolta, Creator/JamesWoods and Creator/BruceWillis.
** Suffolk-born Creator/BobHoskins was cast as UsefulNotes/AlCapone, but was paid a bundle of money once Creator/BrianDePalma brought Creator/RobertDeNiro, the director's first choice all along, onboard.
** Bridges and Hackman were offered the role of Malone.
** Creator/MaryElizabethMastrantonio was considered for Catherine Ness.
** In the original script, the final gunfight had Eliot Ness and George Stone battling Capone gunmen on a stopped train. Creator/BrianDePalma conceived the gunfight on the steps in Chicago's Union Station when Paramount decided that staging the scene and finding a 1930s period train would be too expensive.
** There was originally a different ending for the movie. It was to have been a scene with the camera shooting a close up of Capone's face as it is being warmed up for a shave. And then the camera would have craned up to show the audience that he has reporters around him, but he is in his jail cell.
** Cinematographer Stephen H. Burum originally wanted to shoot the film in black & white.
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Creator/BrianDePalma said that when he was filming the scene in the train station, he made up the series of shots as the scene was being filmed.

* DawsonCasting: Creator/RobertDeNiro was 43 at time of filming, playing the 20-something Al Capone.

** Andy Garcia was originally approached to play Frank Nitti.