The Untouchables (1987)








Young Treasury Agent Elliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is deternimed to take down Al Capone but he learns that it's not going to be easy, because Capone has the police in his pocket. But Ness meets Jimmy Malone a veteran patrolman and probably the most honorable one in the force. He asks Malone to help him get Capone but Malone warns him that if he goes after Capone, he is going to war. They recruit academy cadet, George Stone and Treasury agent Oscar Wallace, who is also an accountant, who wants to prosecute Capone for tax evasion. When they make headway, Capone tries to get them but they are untouchable.


Books with substantial mentioning of The Untouchables

Jürgen Müller
Die besten Filme der 80er
Köln - London - Los Angeles - Madrid - Paris - Tokyo, 2005

James Robert Parish
The Great Cop Pictures
Metuchen, N.J., & London, 1990

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1988, A Survey of the Films of 1987
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1988
pp. 359-363 info

Articles on The Untouchables

Ian Nathan, The Chicago Way, in: Empire, nr. 278 (August), 2012 pp. 82-89