Best scene from The Untouchables

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Union Station anticipation and gunfight; You got him? I got him. Take him.	3
Canada border sequence, including lighthearted pre-fight banter, gunfight w/grenade, and terror-induced confession; Stam	2
Court scenes and rooftop chase, Nitti's death; Your friend died like a stuck Irish pig	1
1634 Racine, first-person break-in and Malone's death; Just like a wop to carry a knife to a gun fight	1
In a church, Malone tells Ness how to get Capone; the Chicago way	1
Capone dinner banquet and head bashing; Teamwork	1
Ness and Malone recruit Stone (G. Petri) from the firing range; I like him, I like him too	0
Malone and Ness first meeting on the bridge; Here endeth the lesson	0
First liquor raid on the umbrella shipping warehouse; It's nice being married	0
Nitti and corner store explosion; Mr, you forgot your suitcase	0
Capone getting a shave; Providing the public with a service	0

― calstars, Friday, 21 March 2008 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

dud

― omar little, Friday, 21 March 2008 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

I knew I was going to forget one; the drunken alley fight between Malone and Jimmy

― calstars, Friday, 21 March 2008 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

I know it was cribbed from some other film (Hitchcock maybe?), but the Union Station stroller-down-the-steps shootout takes a giant dump on all other contenders.

― Alex in NYC, Friday, 21 March 2008 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

baseball deniro

― Mr. Que, Friday, 21 March 2008 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

The stroller scene is lifted from Battleship Potyemkin.

― Tuomas, Friday, 21 March 2008 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'd do this exact same poll with Dressed to Kill, but I don't need to do it to see that it will get only 5 votes.

― Eric H., Friday, 21 March 2008 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

He sends one of yours to the hospital vs baseball hmm

― Eazy, Friday, 21 March 2008 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

baseball deniro is cribbed from lee j. cobb in nichola ray'ss Party Girl. the whole movie is a pastiche, i thought.

― poortheatre, Friday, 21 March 2008 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

i'm always mad the blood in the elevator spells out 'touchable' and not 'touch'

― poortheatre, Friday, 21 March 2008 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Saturday, 22 March 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

Mountie Captain: I do not approve of your methods!
Ness: Yeah, well... You're not from Chicago.

this

― felicity, Saturday, 22 March 2008 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

Stroller.

― g-kit, Saturday, 22 March 2008 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

do the DRESSED TO KILL poll!

― pisces, Saturday, 22 March 2008 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

ness telling off capone with the flashbulbs in the background, held apart by the croud, the climactic courtroom scenes are great. I like Mamet-speak only in spectacle form, like this one and Hoffa. It's not characteristic of Depalma in a lot of ways but obviously one of his best.

― Big Theo, Saturday, 22 March 2008 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

i'm always mad the blood in the elevator spells out 'touchable' and not 'touch'

-- poortheatre, Friday, March 21, 2008 4:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

that would be lame

― s1ocki, Saturday, 22 March 2008 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Sunday, 23 March 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

eight years pass...

this movie is fucking excellent. hadn't seen it in maybe 20 years.

― piscesx, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 03:21 (nine years ago)

eleven months pass...

i'm always mad the blood in the elevator spells out 'touchable' and not 'touch'

-- poortheatre, Friday, March 21, 2008 4:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

that would be lame

― s1ocki, Saturday, March 22, 2008 6:46 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 June 2017 05:38 (eight years ago)

one year passes...

Watching for the first time since it came out, and wow, this film is ridiculous. I get that the good guy corniness is part of the vibe, but De Palma really lays it on thick. Also, about 50% of the scenes are

Accountant: Capone's financial records look really suspicious.

Costner: eh...

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 26 August 2018 00:14 (seven years ago)

four years pass...

In the opening scene , Capone’s barber (the one who cuts him accidentally) is Luca Brazzi from the godfather
I think

― calstars, Saturday, 17 June 2023 01:36 (two years ago)

TOUCHABLE

― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Saturday, 17 June 2023 01:41 (two years ago)

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