At the César Awards 2012, the film received eight nominations. Now 20, he owns a string of speakeasies on the waterfront, including opium dens. Trager narrows the possible list of leakers down to two people: Nitti driver Marty Wilger and his own brother-in-law Harry Mailer, a local politician on Nitti's payroll. Soon, however, Ness and his men find the location of Lassiter's planned brewery on the 6th floor of an industrial building. Film moment: at 44min, scene where Philippe (François CLUZET) and Driss (Omar SY) take a drink in the morning in a brewery Café Les Deux Magots, 6 place Saint-Germain-des-Prés Paris - 6ème (75006) Frank Nitti decides to import a large amount of heroin -- $2 million worth. "[7] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 57 out of 100, based on 31 ratings of professional critics. The plan is to free Capone when the train stops for 5 minutes in the northern California community of Cloverville. The Intouchables (2011) Plot. They elect Nero Rankin to chair the national board of the syndicate, but the choice wasn't unanimous. Who will win out? He kills the head of the Senate, Victor Bartok and when the opposition continues, kills his brother Fedor. Over the several months there was peace, Kurtz' main gunman, Holly Kester, has lost his nerve and Ness focuses on him as a possible way to put both Kurtz and Lyselle out of business. Eliot Ness and the Untouchables are soon on to him having followed Moon's henchman Benny Joplin back to his Oakland, California home. Intouchables amigos Escena corte de bigote barba a Philippe Latino - YouTube. 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Mike Brannon is a tough cop but his two blocks of Chicago are among the safest there are. [121], In July 2011, in addition to acquiring distribution rights in English-speaking countries, Scandinavian countries and China, The Weinstein Company acquired the rights to remake The Intouchables in English. A newly released convict is blackmailed into running a slot-machine racket. Trager's sister, now a widow, has her own plans as well. Cropsie is a small-time hood who wants to get into the big-time and gets a job loan-sharking for Julie Flack. Moses pretends to make amends but actually arranges a hit on his rival, one that also leads to a young newspaper boy being shot. A woman and her boyfriend, dubbed "The Lovebirds" by the press, rob an armored truck. A lot of the same humor set pieces in The Intouchables are repeated in The Upside, which also makes The Upside feel a bit stale. Davis agrees but when Bomer finds out the machines have been doctored to pay out less, Davis is soon on the run. Wald is taking all the risk however with both Viton and Loomis making sure their own interests are protected. Information from a dying hood puts him on the trail of Karpeles' former associate Arnie 'The Wolf' Mendoza, now a supposedly reformed cinema owner living under the name of Albert Maris. To resupply himself, Nitti hires Polish gunsmith Jan Trobek to make a dozen Tommy guns. When the youngest Genna brother takes an interest in Giovanni's daughter, Ness moves in leading to a showdown with the family members. A gangster who controls the produce market in New York has a colleague bumped off. She does so for the money she's offered, even though she is repulsed by Halloway who is quite ugly. [36], On 20 March 2012, The Intouchables became the highest-grossing movie in a language other than English with $281 million worldwide. Having managed to secretly inform his men of the departure date of the train carrying him to Alcatraz, Al Capone continues to work om his escape. Kafka was deported 11 years previously and now lives in the Orient and Nitti and Guzik hire Alexander Stavro to ensure that Kafka entry is uneventful. He soon hooks up with George Dodd a toy manufacturer whose real name is Phil Melnick and is a supposedly reformed mobster. [8], Upon the film's 21 September 2012 UK release under the title Untouchable, The Independent called it "a third-rate buddy movie that hardly understands its own condescension....Why has the world flipped for this movie? When a second girl is killed, it becomes obvious that someone else is behind the killing and Marty tries to protect himself and his brother Herbie. Only it's a set-up... once there, the mobster on trial is planning to have Ness killed. He says he will not fire him as long as he does his job properly. No. After a mobster with valuable information is killed in broad daylight at the racetrack, Eliot Ness and his men try to identify the killer. Anyone who wants a crime committed need only tell them what they want done. Eliot Ness tries to convince her to cooperate with the Feds to bring Kester down but she has her own plans to get even her former employer. It masterfully mixes comedy with drama, reminding us that life is a … O'Malley is an old-time politico who never seeks office himself but controls almost every party official that does. A new 5 and 10 cent game using punch boards has become very popular and lucrative for the syndicate that controls it. When the money gets good, Al decides to throw in with the mob for real. Eliot Ness and his men soon determine that Edwards was the target of a mob hit. Ness and one of his men travel to San Francisco to see if they can determine how the goods were smuggled into the country and determine that it entered on a passenger cruiser and was then shipped by air to Chicago enclosed in a large globe. Felcher eventually comes around but Rusty starts to play a dangerous game when she decides to make money off Felcher and the Capone mob by selling both of them the same information. He gives Eliot Ness a present just in case he's knocked off. He is reputedly the top man in organized crime. Established in Chicago's Little Italy, they provide the Capone empire with illicit liquor that they have produced through a network of home distilleries that may only produce one gallon a day each. Both versions star Akkineni Nagarjuna and Karthi as its male leads. He manages to steal the precious liquid and tries to sell it to Flack. Throughout, Eliot Ness warns Catcher that he's playing a dangerous game and getting involved with hoods can only lead to jail or death. No one will admit knowing him but by tracing his movements, they find he was a regular visitor to the home of Dexter Lloyd Bayless who lives in a well-to-do suburb of Chicago. With little ambition and even fewer employment prospects, he crashes a job interview for the position of … When he visits the Wilsons, however, he's told that Margaret left some three years before. When a passenger liner returning from Cuba catches fire off the New Jersey coast, he fakes his death and sends his underling to the Underground Court, the mob's court of law, to tell them he drowned. The Intouchables Picture Credit About Time Movie Movie Quotes Shaving Che Guevara Have Fun Youtube Actors. With the ransom money now unmovable, they go back to robbing banks. [134] Johar's Dharma Productions and Monga's Sikhya Entertainment will produce a remake, which will be directed by Mohit Suri. When Wallace Laughton is killed by Federal Agents, a mysterious man known only as The Partner orders that the agent responsible be eliminated. With Eliot Ness and his men have been keeping a close eye on Salazar, the drug kingpin desperately tries to find the junk. With Eliot Ness receiving hot tips and managing to intercept liquor being smuggled in from Canada, Al Capone enforcer Pete "The Persuader" Kalmiski and his underling Allan Sitkin approach December to make a deal. Marty loses his temper and kills Bogan which Szabo is willing to forgive, if Bogan really ordered the killing. Templar hides his friend Barris on board so Joe Kulak turns the tables on both of them. Halas has a flair for the dramatic and just as the verdict in the case is about to be announced, he arranges for someone to stand up in open court and announce, with murder weapon in hand, that he is the killer. The dead man's wife Barbara accuses the neighborhood Mafia chief, Joe Bucco, of ordering the killing. The first victim in Chicago is Mary Kay Spencer, a 17-year-old who drank the stuff while out on a date with her boyfriend. The Intouchables (2011) Plot. Bucco denies having anything to do with it -- the dead man was his wife's cousin -- but is pretty sure his collector, Little Charlie Sebastino, is responsible. Eliot Ness wants to get his hands on them as well knowing it would be the end of that racket. Monte escapes from custody with the help of his bodyguard, Yanos Dalker, and vows to kill the real snitch. [6], The film holds a 75% approval rating at the film review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, based on 122 reviews, and an average score of 6.7/10. Philippe states he does not care about Driss's past because he is the only one that does not treat him with pity. He forms a partnership with Cagan to re-open Gander's club and he also starts an affair with Cagan's wife but he soon falls under suspicion. After Dutch Schultz gets his income tax evasion trial moved to a quiet town, he starts to have a positive effect on its citizens and eventually sways the jury. Saved by Luisa Guerrero. [38], The film has also done well in several other European countries, topping charts in Germany for nine consecutive weeks, Switzerland for eleven weeks, Austria for six weeks, Poland for three weeks, and Italy, Spain and Belgium for one week, as of 20 May 2012. His demands aren't that great: he wants to be named the Captain of the waiters but eventually greed takes hold and he forces Rawlings to make him a partner. On 10 January 2012, The Intouchables set a record, having been number one for ten consecutive weeks since its release in France. Overhearing, Philippe recognizes Driss's need to be supportive to his family and releases him from his job, suggesting he may not want to push a wheelchair all his life. Movies. The movie is based on the events of the life of French aristocrat, Philippe Pozzo di Borgo and Algerian immigrant, Abdel Sellou. Bugs Moran, hiding out since Al Capone eliminated his gang in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, is visited by Eddie O'Gara, a man he thought had been killed by rival gangsters several years previously. Eliot Ness meanwhile is looking to stop the biggest shipment ever of illegal liquor worth well over $1 million. Cependant, on s’est tous au moins une fois demandés d’où pouvait bien venir ce titre. Blackie, however, is beginning to chafe under Lily's orders, all the more so as she is having an affair with a member of her crew, Marty Stoke. [12] Omar Sy received the César Award for Best Actor on 24 February 2012 for the role of Driss (defeating Jean Dujardin, nominated for The Artist) and being the first French African actor to receive this honor.[13]. They trace the illegal shipment to Ira Bauer, a blind fish and seafood wholesaler. They do manage to trace him to Chicago nightclub owner Sal Rudin and believe the heroin originated in New Orleans. With a public outcry over the level of gang violence in Chicago, the authorities appoint retired lawyer Willard Thornton to the new post of Crime Commissioner. Unknown to anyone, Benno has contracted Parrot Fever from a recently acquired pet and collapses soon after his arrival. When boxer Joey McGrath dies in the ring, the medical examiner reports no special circumstances and the Press put it down to a tragic accident. He then arranges to spring from Leavenworth prison master counterfeiter Hans Dreiser to engrave the plates to produce the money. Nitti accepts the proposition and gives him six days to get the job done. When a large supply of hair tonic is stolen, Ness and the Untouchables are concerned that it may be used as a base for illegal — and deadly — liquor. Eliot Ness and the Untouchables are soon on to the whole scheme thanks to information from an attractive woman, Mady Collins, who seems to have taken a liking to Ness. During one raid, they find that a couple of the bottles are frozen solid and Ness speculates that they may have been shipped in a refrigerated car. Eliot Ness has made contact with Al Remp in prison and arranged for him to rejoin Augie's organization upon release and communicate with the Untouchables. When gangsters invade and shoot up a speakeasy on the outskirts of Chicago, Ness thinks Frank Nitti may be trying to get rid of some of his competition. Johnny Mizo has been on the lam for several years working as a seaman on cargo ships. [2] The film was voted the cultural event of 2011 in France with 52% of votes in a poll by Fnac. overall No. Guest Stars: For Ness, a master bank robber proves a worthy opponent. He also gets his cheapskate uncle Barney Loomis, a legitimate restaurant owner, involved by getting him to lend him the up-front money he needs to the illicit liquor operation underway. A successful bootlegger seizes control of a nightclub and takes its brash young comic under his wing, promising to make him a star. When gangster Nick Moses and another Chicago mobster threaten to go to war after Moses poaches customers in the other's territory, Frank Nitti — now the top mobster in Chicago after the recent incarceration of Al Capone for tax evasion — tells them to settle things amicably, or else. But when the hit man he hired gets greedy, he has to get rid of him too. Driss encourages him to meet her, but Philippe fears her reaction when she discovers his disability. The man had been playing Santa Claus at a children's orphanage and had just left when he was gunned down by a passing car. Their first step is to get rid of the incorruptible mayoral candidate, Judge Leon Zabo, who they run down in the street. His only possible defense is to prove that his suspicions are correct. Soon after, the stuff starts to appear flavored with ginger jake, a popular patent medicine. Once Ness at his men learn how Ciamino collects the liquor, they try to catch him with goods but through intimidation and murder, the mobster proves to be elusive. In fact, she has set up a very clever trading floor where mobsters bid for anything from drugs to counterfeit money. Radick makes a deal: if Ness can locate his daughter, he will give him the information he wants. Special agent Ness is worried about his childhood pal -- a big, successful boxing promoter who's mixed up with a gangster Ness can never get convicted. The closing caption states how the men remain close friends to this day. A drug overdose victim puts Ness onto Sebastino's distribution chain but he is puzzled when the gangster stops selling the stuff. When Al Capone is imprisoned for tax evasion, he leaves his operation in the hands of two of his lieutenants: Mayer Wartel is responsible for the speakeasies and Carl Positan is left in charge of the breweries. When Nitti tells him he's a dead man, Moses tries to make one last deal -- in return for sparing his life, he will make sure Eliot Ness is killed. Working in the New York area, Eliot Ness and his men are trying to trace an incoming shipment of narcotics. He is producing his own brandy, of very poor quality, and using a fancy French label to try to pass it off as de Bouverais cognac. The demand for real beer goes unabated and Charlie Zenko tries to consolidate his control of the North side of Chicago. With François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot. The Untouchables is an American crime drama produced by Desilu Productions that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC Television Network. He is just there to get a signature on a document showing he was interviewed and rejected so that he can continue receiving his welfare benefits. Directed by Brian De Palma. On Mizo's arrival in the U.S., Majesky has his hoods waiting for him but they kill the wrong man so both Majesky and Eliot Ness are now on the lookout for him in Chicago. Ness and his men are out to get one of the nearly perfect bills to get the serial number and stop the distribution of the cash before it starts. [37] In July 2012, it became the top grossing foreign language film of 2012 in North America, surpassing A Separation. Charlie Zenko is none too pleased that his competition is back on the street but has the good sense to check with New York mobster Joe Kulak who confirms that Mencken is working for him. Unbeknown to Nicky, Marco is a major hoodlum and his father was in fact a hood. Needless to say, "Little" Charlie hatches his own plan to eliminate Genna and come out on top. Harry's wife Edna isn't too pleased and starts feeding information to Ness. Nine weeks after its release in France on 2 November 2011, it became the second biggest box office hit in France, just behind the 2008 film Welcome to the Sticks. With Eliot Ness and the Untouchables targeting them, receipts are down so they decide to accept New York hood Nate Selko's plan to deal with Ness. Known as the best inside man in the business, he promises them a Ness-proof operation. Meanwhile, Elliot Ness is looking for Moran and O'Gara, figuring that both will want revenge on the gangsters who are responsible for their plight and that he can use that to destroy the Chicago syndicates permanently. Parrish knows that Thornton's style is to eliminate any possible risk to his reputation so he is soon on the lam, living in the back room of a country garage run by Emmy Sarver. Al Capone's main enforcer, Frank Nitti, has gone into the movie business. Ness knows the club's hostess, Maggie Storm, quite well. He left the country after stealing $200,000 from mobster Vince Majesky who has been waiting patiently for his return.