The cultural center was also used in the opera shots.
Untouchables roof scene bad guy.
Bad guy sees it stationary and smoking.
The roof where eliot ness has his final confrontation with frank nitti is actually the roof of the chicago cultural center.
This movie just reeks of farce from the accountant mowing down people with a shotgun with the nerdy grin symbolizing his transformation from mild mannered nerd to empowered bad ass to the completely arbitrary scene of robert deniro hitting a guy with a baseball bat no back story no plot movement seemingly no reason for it to be in the movie whatsoever to sean connery getting blasted with seemingly dozens of machine gun bullets bleeding enough to have died three times over and yet still.
Dashing to the rescue stone brings the pram to a halt with a knee as ness guns down a particularly tenacious bad guy lurking by a doric column.
Cut to front of cabin angle and the grenade is bouncing on ground and explosion happens next to grenade.
Don t be fooled by his schoolboy ish eagerness costner s eliot ness can shove a bad guy off a roof and then quip about it with the best of them.
He then tosses a grenade onto the roof which rolls then falls to the ground.
Thanks to ron the shots of ness chasing the bad guy up to the roof of the cultural center were also shot in the cultural center in the rear staircase.