The two-hour gangster thriller from the director of Scarface has been hailed a "masterpiece" of the genre.

A masterpiece of a gangster flick hailed a cult classic for mafia film fans will be aired on BBC Two this weekend. Starring Robert De Niro as Al Capone, The Untouchables is about a Prohibition agent, Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner), who attempts to take down the notorious crime boss.

When his efforts fail due to widespread corruption in the Chicago police, he takes matters into his own hands. Ness assembles a group of clean lawmen – including Sean Connery as an Irish-American cop – to bring down Capone's bootleg empire. At the helm of the 1987 film is the iconic American filmmaker Brian De Palma, the director of Scarface and Carrie.

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