Episode 13 - The Untouchables (Repost)

 

 

 

Warning: This episode cntains plot spoilers, and scattered expletives

Note: The audio quality has been fixed in this epiosde.

In this week's episode of The Historian's Movie Review I look at the 1987 movie The Untouchables.

Topics discussed include Prohibition, Eliot Ness, Al Capone's criminal empire, and horrible 1980s synth music.

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Notes

The Untouchables – IMDB

Lawrence Bergreen Capone the Man and the Era

Dennis Hoffman Scarface Al and the Crime Crusaders: Chicago’s Private War Against Capone

Elio Ness The Untouchables

Battleship Potemkin Review by Roger Ebert

 

Intro and Intersticial Music - "You Never Know Dub feat. Al Capone," Manudub

Outro Music - "Maple Leaf Rag" Scott Joplin

Odessa Steps scene, Battleship Potemkin

 

Eliot Ness, Courtesey of kingsacademy.com