In honor of this film's 25th Anniversary, here's a fresh look at a film I've seen several times before, but not in many years.
Kevin Costner was not yet a box office superstar when he
landed his first big role in Brian De Palm’s The Untouchables, playing the Treasury Department golden boy Eliot
Ness, the law man who got Al Capone. He was so much not yet a star that the
first shot of him in the film he has his back to camera for the majority of the
scene. It is his wife Catherine, played by Patricia Clarkson in her film debut,
who gets all the face time in the scene. This is actually the second scene in
the film following the bombing of a Chicago business establishment by one of
Capone’s henchmen, the blast taking a 10-year-old girl as collateral damage.
