What is The Untouchables (movie)?
{{Infobox movie | name = The Untouchables | image = The Untouchables Filmlogo.png | caption = Logo | director = [[Brian De Palma]] | producer = [[Art Linson]] | screenplay = [[David Mamet]] | based_on = {{based on|''[[The Untouchables (1957 book)|The Untouchables]]''|[[Eliot Ness]] and [[Oscar Fraley]]}} | starring = {{Plainlist | * [[Kevin Costner]] * [[Charles Martin Smith]] * [[Andy García]] * [[Robert De Niro]] * [[Sean Connery]] }} | music = [[Ennio Morricone]] | cinematography = [[Stephen H. Burum]] | editing = [[Gerald B. Greenberg]]<br />[[Bill Pankow]] | distributor = [[Paramount Pictures]] | released = {{filmdate|1987|6|2|[[New York City]] premiere|1987|6|3|United States}} | runtime = 119 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $25 million | gross = $106.2 million<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EoeJ7VmwnDIC&pg=PA7 |title=The Feature Film Distribution Deal: A Critical Analysis of the Single Most Important Film Industry Agreement |access-date=2013-12-29 |first=John W. |last=Cones |year=1997 |publisher=SIU Press |page=7|isbn=9780809320820 }}</ref> }} '''''The Untouchables''''' is a 1987 American [[crime]] movie directed by [[Brian De Palma]], produced by [[Art Linson]], written by [[David Mamet]], and based on the book [[The Untouchables (1957 book)|of the same name]] (1957). ==Background== It is about [[Eliot Ness]] (Costner) as he creates the [[Untouchables (law enforcement)|Untouchables]] team to bring [[Al Capone]] (De Niro) to justice during [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]]. The [[Grammy Award]]–nominated score was composed by [[Ennio Morricone]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1987/09/06/piace-al-capone-superstar.html|title=Piace Al Capone superstar|author=Tullio Kezich|newspaper=[[la Repubblica]]|date=September 6, 1987|page=23|language=it}}</ref> ==Cast== {{div col}} *[