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The Untouchables, a true taste of 1920's prohibition America Reality and fiction within the film industry are often misunderstood by the audience. A lot of the events that happened in the film 'The Untouchables' never actually took place in real life, Elliot Ness never met Al Capone (scarface) and the courthouse scene never happened, and so the list goes on, but despite this the director Brian De Palma's still gives the audience an excellent depiction of 1920's and early 1930's America during Prohibition. Prohibition also known as The Noble Experiment was clearly a failure, innocent people suffered; organized crime grew into an empires; the police, courts, and politicians became increasingly corrupt; disrespect for the law grew; and the per capita consumption of the prohibited substance-alcohol-increased dramatically, year by year. "Prohibition did not achieve its goals. Instead, it added to the problems it was intended to solve" (Thorton, pg15). The streets of...

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