Connery's Irish lilt is 'worst film accent ever'

Sean Connery’s much-mocked attempt at an Irish twang was today named the worst movie accent of all time.

Sean Connery’s much-mocked attempt at an Irish twang was today named the worst movie accent of all time.

His efforts to play cop Jim Malone in 1987 film The Untouchables, barely disguising his ubiquitous Scottish lilt, topped a poll of experts at movie magazine Empire.

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