Sean Connery and Kevin Costner in The Untouchables
Sean Connery made his best movie outside the James Bond franchise when he paired up with Kevin Costner to take down Al Capone in Brian De Palma’s Prohibition-era gangster thriller The Untouchables. Connery became the first actor to play Bond on the big screen when he starred in 1962’s Dr. No. The character was already a literary icon, but Connery was responsible for making Ian Fleming’s gentleman spy a beloved staple of the silver screen.
The Untouchables was directed by Carrie’s Brian De Palma from a script by Glengarry Glen Ross playwright David Mamet. The cinematography was done by Stephen H. Burum, who had previously shot De Palma’s erotic thriller Body Double, and it was edited by regular De Palma collaborators Gerald B. Greenberg and Bill Pankow. The Grammy-winning musical score was composed by The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’s Ennio Morricone, and features period music by Duke Ellington.
The shootouts at the courthouse and the railway station are stylish action scenes, but they never happened, and neither did the raid at the Canada-United States border. In the movie, Ness’ wife is named Catherine, and they have a daughter, but in real life, Ness’ wife was called Edna, and they had no children at the time. The film also overplays Ness’ role in Capone’s final tax evasion conviction; that was actually spearheaded by IRS Agent Frank J. Wilson and U.S. Attorney George E.Q. Johnson.
In 1964, at the height of his Bond tenure, Connery starred alongside Tippi Hedren in Hitchcock’s psychological thriller Marnie. Connery and Hedren’s intoxicating on-screen dynamic carries what is now remembered as one of Hitchcock’s darkest films. In 1974, Connery appeared in the star-studded ensemble of Lumet’s spot-on movie adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express.
Connery gave his last truly iconic performance in Michael Bay’s action thriller The Rock in 1996. Connery plays former SAS captain John Mason, who teams up with Nicolas Cage’s FBI chemist Stanley Goodspeed to take on a rogue band of Navy SEALs who have occupied Alcatraz Island. Mason is so similar to 007 that there’s even a fan theory that Mason is really an older version of Bond. The Rock proved that Sean Connery still had his 007 charisma more than three decades after retiring from the role.
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