Thanks Robert, definitely before my time. :) thanks for that video, I may give it a watch. I just didn’t want to spoil it if I ever see that movie. Which is not likely.
Neil, you really know this film! I don’t know the production history so the ending at the Union station was done because the...
To quote Clint Eastwood, I had to look it up.
So the Eisenstein reference refers to a film he did according to this article below. It refers to Battleship Potemkin, I’ve not seen this.
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/iconic-movie-scene-the-untouchables-union-station-shoot-out/
I saw this once on TV and while it is a very good film, I couldn’t revisit it because it was so intense in some of the murders. I think I have the laserdisc so must have seen it uncut on that, but never got the later releases. i seem to recall especially the death of the Charles Martin Smith...