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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) -- Frank is made, after he guns down a shop, by Capone's men.
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) -- A line of cars, filled with gangster, drive by a restaurant where Al Capone is eating and fill it full of bullets.
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) -- A few of Capone's Men line up a group of rival gangsters and guns them down.
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) -- Al Capone takes a baseball bat to a couple of his men who tried to double cross him.
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Overview

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Director:
Roger Corman
Writer:
Howard Browne (writer)
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Release Date:
30 June 1967 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Plot:
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime... more | full synopsis
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Warmed Over Untouchables more (35 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jason Robards ... Al Capone

George Segal ... Peter Gusenberg
Ralph Meeker ... George Clarence 'Bugs' Moran
Jean Hale ... Myrtle
Clint Ritchie ... Jack McGurn
Frank Silvera ... Nick Sorello
Joseph Campanella ... Albert Wienshank
Richard Bakalyan ... John Scalise
David Canary ... Frank Gusenberg
Bruce Dern ... Johnny May

Harold J. Stone ... Frank Nitti
Kurt Kreuger ... James Clark
Paul Richards ... Charles Fischetti
Joe Turkel ... Jake 'Greasy Thumb' Guzik (as Joseph Turkel)
Milton Frome ... Adam Heyer
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
100 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (Suggested for Mature Audiences) | UK:15 (re-rating) (2006 uncut) | UK:X (original rating) (1967 cut) | Iceland:16 | USA:TV-PG | France:-12 | Netherlands:12 | Singapore:NC-16 | Germany:16 (DVD rating) | West Germany:16 (nf) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 (1967) | Sweden:15 | USA:Unrated
Filming Locations:
Desilu Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA more
Company:
Los Altos Productions more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
For the massacre scene in the garage, the actors playing the slain gangsters were shown photos and directed as how to fall so their positions were identical to the real photos of the massacre. Two actors bumped together on the way down. After studying photographs they realized they had fallen and collided in the exact way the slain gangsters had fallen and had landed in the correct positions. more
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the scene where Jack McGurn is showing the killers how to get to the Clark Street garage from the Wood street location, McGurn's spoken directions are correct but while he is saying "east on Webster" his finger is traveling north on Wood Street. Then while he is saying "south on Clark" his finger is traveling east on Webster. more
Quotes:
Adam Heyer: Hello, boys. Something I can do for you?
Gangster dressed as a cop: Yes, you can shut up!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Alice: The Valentine's Day Massacre (#6.15)" (1982) more

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5 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Warmed Over Untouchables, 16 July 2007
5/10
Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

What the OK Corral story is to the western genre, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre is to the gangster film, a story told and retold where the characters have assumed some mythic proportions. Funny thing is I think both Al Capone and Bugs Moran would have scoffed at the idea they would become modern mythic characters.

Though it boasts color and better production values, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre is really just a warmed over version of what the public had seen only a few years ago on The Untouchables. For that matter The St. Valentine's Day Massacre was also released too soon after the film Al Capone that starred Rod Steiger in the title role.

Jason Robards, Jr. as Al Capone and Ralph Meeker as Bugs Moran fit the roles well. Robards seems to be having a great old time in the part. He overacts like crazy, but then again so did Robert DeNiro in the big screen version of The Untouchables and so did Steiger in his film. The role just seems to call for that.

Speaking of overacting, George Segal is also having a great old diet of scenery as one of Moran's trigger men. This was his first film after getting his Oscar nomination for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and it certainly is a lot different than the young college professor in that film.

In fact with Robards leading the pack everyone seems to be throwing away all restraint. The film stops just this side of being played for laughs.

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre is a good factual retelling of the tale that kind of brought the gangster era in Chicago to a close.

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