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The St Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)
Director: Roger Corman
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
One of Corman's best films, far superior to Richard Wilson's Al Capone as a study of Capone's Chicago. The film revels in the mythology of the genre, both paying homage to it and reinterpreting. It was one of the few films up to that time, for example, to stress the purely Sicilian nature of the Mafia and its relations with non-Sicilians like Capone. The elaborate intrigue of the gang warfare is treated in a hard, almost documentary style, with newsreel-type commentary. It also remains unmarred by spurious moralising: morality, in fact, is suspended in favour of mythology.Author: DP
Cast & crew
Director: Roger Corman
Producer: Roger Corman
Cast: Jason Robards, George Segal, Ralph Meeker, Jean Hale, Clint Ritchie, Frank Silvera, Joseph Campanella, Bruce Dern, David Canary, Kurt Kreuger, John Agar, Jack Nicholson full cast
Genre(s): Gangsters
Duration: 99 mins
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