• Director: Roger Corman
  • Release Year: 1967
  • Production Country: United States
  • Language: English

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Description

At the culmination of their plot to take over the city's organized crime scene, Al Capone and his gangsters set up an ambush of their rivals, the Bugs Moran gang, resulting in a brutal and bloody murder of seven of Moran's men in a garage on the north side of Chicago.

Themes

Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (1899 – 1947), Prohibition (1920 – 1933), George Clarence "Bugs" Moran (1891 – 1957), Saint Valentine's Day massacre (14 February 1929), Gangsters, Gang warfare, Corruption, Urban warfare, Loyalties, Fables and folktales, Public memory, Legends and mythologies