He literally cannot sustain the accent for the duration of a sentence – and yet gamely on he struggles, like a wolfhound promised fillet steak if it can recite Ode to a Nightingale. While wiping away tears of laughter, you can't help but feel sorry for the poor man. It's as if his mouth is hosting a fight between a leprechaun and a pirate, with the occasional swerve into Tony Curtis's pastiche of Cary Grant from Some Like It Hot. He is supposed to be Chicago Irish, but what comes out when Sean Connery tries to do Chicago Irish is a sound never before heard on Planet Earth. Kevin Costner as Ness and Robert De Niro as Capone are both fine, but the highlight is Sean Connery as Ness's fictional partner, Jimmy Malone. Leprechaun or pirate? Sean Connery in Oscar-winning form The parasol scene is partially based on one Ness raid but is an entirely fact-free zone, as are the later sequences showing a horseback raid in Montana and a shootout at a station. The family man shown on the screen insists that no one on his force can take a drink while they're enforcing prohibition the real Ness was an inveterate philanderer and alcoholic. It is true that Ness was a self-publicist of the first order, but that's as far as the accuracy of his character goes. To Capone's delight, the picture in the paper the next morning, headlined "Poor Butterfly", makes Ness look like a right numpty. The shutter clicks just as he pulls out not a bottle of rye, but a pretty green parasol. Wielding an axe, Ness instructs a photographer to take his picture while he smashes into the first crate.
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It is full of crates pointedly emblazoned with red maple leaves, in case there are any goldfish in the audience who have already forgotten this is supposed to be Canadian whisky.
Hearing that an illegal shipment of Canadian whisky is on its way to Chicago, Eliot Ness busts into the warehouse concerned.
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