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Released: 2 June 1987

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The Untouchables (2 June 1987)

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At the beginning of the movie, Capone tries to portray himself as a nice man who is simply giving the thirsty people of Chicago what they want. He even says to a reporter "There is violence in Chicago, but not by me and not by anybody I employ. You know why? Because it's not good business." But Capone actually supplied poor quality liquor at high prices, and backed up his business with hired guns. As Capone is being interviewed, a ten-year-old girl in another part of the city is killed by a bomb, planted in a cafe that had refused to buy Capone's alcohol. Treasury Department agent Eliot Ness is put in charge of leading the crusade against Capone and his empire. His first lead is a warehouse suspected of carrying crates of Canadian whiskey; however when Ness raids the warehouse, he finds that the crates are full of Japanese umbrellas. A photographer snaps a picture of the embarrassing moment, turning Ness into a laughing stock in the newspaper. Frustrated by his failure caused by the treachery of members of the police force he is assigned to lead, Ness encounters a veteran beat cop named Jim Malone, untouched by Capones's pay-offs. Malone reluctantly joins Ness and becomes his mentor, teaching him never to trust anyone in the corrupt police department. He tells Ness that he knows where to find the honest men who are just as determined to see Capone put out of business. That is, the recruits at the academy (Malone gave the analogy of avoiding rotten apples in the barrel by picking them off the tree). After being assigned an accountant officer named Oscar Wallace (Charles Martin Smith) and hiring an Italian sharpshooter named George Stone, né Giuseppe Petri (Andy Garcia), straight from the academy, Ness has a team he believes can combat Capone without fear of betrayal.

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