The Gangster Movie That Changed Sean Connery’s Career Forever

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Sean Connery as Jim Malone in The Untouchables (1987)

The Big Picture It would be a great disservice to confine the image of Sir Sean Connery to merely being the star of seven James Bond films. While portraying the iconic British Secret Service agent solidified his name as one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, there is more to his acting prowess than having to repeatedly ask his drink to be shaken, not stirred.

The Untouchables RCrimeDramaHistorical During Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him. The group finds out that Capone has not been able to file an income tax return for over four years and decides that it is within these bounds that they can mount a case against him. Unfortunately, the moniker the press has given them soon becomes just a label, as they start to fall one by one. Oscar Wallace is assassinated by Frank Nitti in the Police department elevator as he attempts to escort one of Capone's bookkeepers whom they have forced to testify. Next on the hit list? Jim Malone.

When Ness turns him around, Connery pushes his body off of the ground for a brief second, just a brief second, as if he is suddenly given an electric shock only to fall back down in weakness. It's subtle, but so effective in relaying how near-death Jim Malone was. In his perpetual chase for justice, he struggles to reach for an object on his left. He is mistakenly given a key by Ness, but he throws it away in desperation.

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