Fun Trivia : Untouchables, The

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Untouchables, The

What is Malone's address?

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1634 Racine. This is the address that is seen on the inside of Frank Nitti's match book.



According to the movie, how many years in prison did Al Capone get sentenced to?

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11 years. This is seen on the front page of the newspaper Ness is reading at the end of the movie.



What is the name of Eliot Ness's son?

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John James. His middle name is after James Malone the role that Sean Connery filled.



When the four "Untouchables" are having dinner after their first successful bust, Malone talks about a patron saint. Which Saint does Malone talk about?

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St. Jude. Malone asks Stone jokingly, "Which are you Stone, a policeman or a lost cause?" Stone replies, "I wanna be a cop."



What is Capone's alias in the bookkeeper's ledger?

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A. Costa. Wallace says to Ness, "If we can connect any of these names with Capone then we can put Capone away."



Who issues Frank Nitti a gun license?

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Mayor of Chicago. Nitti's gun permit is written on the back of a business card.



Which two of the "Untouchables" are the only ones seen having a drink of alcohol in the movie?

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Wallace and Malone. How odd, they are also the only two "Untouchables" to die in the movie.



What is Stone's real name?

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Giuseppe Petri. Malone asks Stone to state his name when they first meet at the Police Academy. Stone replies, "George Stone." Malone gets angry because he knows he is Italian and says, "No your real name, I mean what was it before ya changed it."



What is the last line of the movie?

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"I think I'll have a drink.". Eliot Ness says this once he finds out that the United States Government is considering doing away with prohibition.



The film, "The Untouchables", was released in 1987, and was directed by whom?

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Brian De Palma. De Palma has also directed "Scarface", "Carrie", and "Mission: Impossible". He has been active in directing movies since 1966, most notably in suspense and horror.



A bomb goes off in the opening scene of the movie. Who is holding it when it goes off?

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A little girl. An unidentified man comes into an establishment and leaves a briefcase at the foot of the bar. Upon promptly leaving, a little girl notices the briefcase, picks it up, yells for the "mister" to come back, and unfortunately meets her demise at the door of the location.



Andy Garcia plays George Stone, a police trainee with an eagle eye behind a gun, and a cool, even temper. Only once does he completely lose his cool when Malone milks out his real name in an emotional test of wills (he passes). What is George Stone's real last name?

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Petri. Giuseppe Petri is his full given name. We learn this from Malone's goading and bullying in the Academy, in Connery's attempt to see if Stone has the spirit needed to go the distance in their future endeavours. After Stone pulls a gun on him, Malone thinks he'd be perfect for the team.



Al Capone does murder one person somewhere in the movie. During this scene, what is his weapon of choice?

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Baseball bat. He uses the bat as a prop for a motivational speech to his cronies on teamwork. When finished, he uses the bat to dispose of one of his own, who was in charge of a liquor warehouse that got successfully raided.



There is a classic picture in the movie of the four "untouchable" do-gooders, taken for posterity's sake. Three of the actors are Connery, Costner, and Garcia. Who is the fourth actor in the picture, the one who plays Oscar Wallace?

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Charles Martin Smith. Smith plays Oscar Wallace, who does the investigating of Capone's shady tax filings. Smith got his big acting break playing "The Toad" in "American Graffiti". He now does a fair amount of directing as well.



Frank Nitti, Al Capone's evil right hand man, was played gloriously by Billy Drago. Eliot Ness discovers Nitti is the man who killed Malone in Malone's apartment, while doing what seemingly mundane act?

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Lighting a cigarette. Ness uses a matchbook, one of the items confiscated from Nitti's pockets outside of the courtroom, to light a cigarette. He finds Malone's address written on the inside of the matchbook, which has no business being written there. Drago has made a very good living playing evil incarnate, starring as demons in the TV dramas "Charmed" and "Supernatural", and movie villains in "The Hills Have Eyes", and "El Muerto". His facial structure lends to minimal acting, as he can just stand there and look evil.



What animal does Frank Nitti compare Sean Connery's character to, when describing his death?

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pig. Ness decides not to shoot Nitti in cold blood, while he is hanging on a rope over the edge of a building. Ness pulls him back up to arrest him. But Nitti, not knowing when to shut up, delivers the comment that sends Ness over the edge emotionally, and Nitti over the edge literally.



In Eliot Ness' introspective moment near the end of the movie, he sits at his desk staring at news clippings and pictures, and ponders the happenings of the past weeks. He sums it up to himself with what simple phrase?

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"So much violence.". Clearly this much violence was not what Eliot Ness signed up for. But in respect to Malone's spirit, he follows through to the end, and does what he has to do to get Capone. During the rest of the scene, Ness gives Malone's call box key and Saint Jude medallion to George Stone, saying "He'd have wanted a COP to have it." Stone is visibly moved at this gesture.



What is the end result in the courtroom, of the tax evasion trial of Al Capone?

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The defense changes their plea to guilty midtrial.. When the judge switches the juries, the defense lawyer takes it upon himself to change the plea to guilty. This enrages Capone, and causes a small riot in the courtroom.



There is fantastic dialogue throughout this movie. What Academy Award-nominated playwright wrote the screen play for "The Untouchables"?

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David Mamet. Mamet has been nominated multiple times for Tonys and Oscars. While he was not nominated for "Untouchables", he has been nominated for "The Verdict" starring the late Paul Newman, and "Wag the Dog" which starred Dustin Hoffman and Robert DeNiro. His Tony nominations were for "Speed the Plow" and "Glengarry Glen Ross", the latter of which was made into a wonderful "actor's" movie.