The Untouchables Validity?!
Question: The Untouchables Validity!?
What parts of the 80's movie "The Untouchables" (based on Al Capone's arrestment) are true and what parts are fiction!?Www@Enter-QA@Com
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Nearly all of "The Untouchables" movie is fiction!. None of the Untouchables were killed and neither Ness nor his team had anything to with Al Capone's income tax evasion conviction!. Frank Nitti was not thrown from a building through a car roof!. He succeeded Capone as boss of the Outfit and shot himself in 1943 (years after Ness left Chicago) along a suburban railroad track after being indicted for extortion!.
The one thing in the movie that might be true is the scene where DeNiro batters the guys with a baseball bat!. In May 1929 three Capone associates -- Albert Anselmi, John Scalise, and Joseph "Hop Toad" Guinta -- were found murdered in an Indiana ditch!. This was at first attributed to the Moran-Aiello gang, in retaliation for the St!. Valentine's Day Massacre!. Later writers claimed, based on alleged statements from unnamed police officials, that Capone had beaten the trio at least into unconsciousness with a baseball bat at a formal gang dinner (the locale varying with different tellings) after discovering their plot to murder him!. Supposedly Capone's bodyguards then took the men out, finished them off with bullets, and dumped them!.
The "Battleship Potemkin" steal is hardly surprising!. Brian DePalma has done little if anything that's truly original!. "Dressed to Kill" is little more than a copy of "Psycho"!.
To correct one of the other posters here, Capone did not spend the rest of his life in prison!. He was released in 1939, his mind and body ravaged by years of untreated syphilis, and died at his home on Palm Island, Florida on January 25, 1947!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
The one thing in the movie that might be true is the scene where DeNiro batters the guys with a baseball bat!. In May 1929 three Capone associates -- Albert Anselmi, John Scalise, and Joseph "Hop Toad" Guinta -- were found murdered in an Indiana ditch!. This was at first attributed to the Moran-Aiello gang, in retaliation for the St!. Valentine's Day Massacre!. Later writers claimed, based on alleged statements from unnamed police officials, that Capone had beaten the trio at least into unconsciousness with a baseball bat at a formal gang dinner (the locale varying with different tellings) after discovering their plot to murder him!. Supposedly Capone's bodyguards then took the men out, finished them off with bullets, and dumped them!.
The "Battleship Potemkin" steal is hardly surprising!. Brian DePalma has done little if anything that's truly original!. "Dressed to Kill" is little more than a copy of "Psycho"!.
To correct one of the other posters here, Capone did not spend the rest of his life in prison!. He was released in 1939, his mind and body ravaged by years of untreated syphilis, and died at his home on Palm Island, Florida on January 25, 1947!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Frank Nitti was not thrown from the roof, but killed himself years later by stepping in front of the train
The shootout in the train station is a bold and brazen theft from the film "Battleship Potempkin" and never happened!.
Al capone was convicted on Income tax Evasion chargesWww@Enter-QA@Com
The shootout in the train station is a bold and brazen theft from the film "Battleship Potempkin" and never happened!.
Al capone was convicted on Income tax Evasion chargesWww@Enter-QA@Com
They did take "artistic liscence"with some of the scenes in the film,especially the one where the baby carriage goes bouncing down the steps in the middle of a shoot-out!. Great filmaking!?Yup!. Did it actually happen!?Nope!. That scen was lifted from a silent film called,"Potemkin" and as much as it was fun to see Frank Nitti get thrown off the building,he commited suicide!. And Al Capone was arrested for tax fraud and evasion and spent the rest of his life(he died of syphillis)in prisonWww@Enter-QA@Com