Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

classicsoncall My summary quote spoken by Al Capone (Jason Robards) is quite insightful into the mind of a gangster, who lives by a different moral code than the rest of society. While speaking that line, Capone is in the midst of planning to take out his North Side rival Bugs Moran (Ralph Meeker), almost as if it's his civic duty to unite all illegal activities in the city under one crime family.Well I'm not a student of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, but reading a handful of reviews on this board it seems this film was a fairly accurate representation of the events leading up to that fatally famous day. Criticism of Robards' choice to portray Capone doesn't bother me much, though I have to say he did take it over the top at times. His "We're gonna get him before he gets me" line in the face of his gang's seeming reluctance to go for all out war was about as definitive a statement a mobster can make outside of "Make him an offer he can't refuse".There's a cool cast of supporting players here, and probably the best scene for me was George Segal displaying his aversion to fur coats when his gal Myrtle (Jean Hale) revealed the price tag. That tussle just seemed to go on and on and I never did get the impression the coat was going back. I had to do a double take a couple of times when it looked like Jack Nicholson showed up as one of the tommy gunners; his uncredited appearance here was kind of cool.One item I'll have to go back and check was that flashback scene of Al Capone recounting the first attempted hit on his life, occurring across the street from a movie theater. The marquee displayed the title 'The Mad Rider' but there's nothing like that in the IMDb database. There are a handful of films going by "The Masked Rider" prior to 1922 and another one in 1941 which wouldn't have worked, so I'm curious as to why the film makers used that title. A half century later now so I don't think we'll ever know.

Dalbert Pringle Favorite movie quote - "They don't call that guy 'Bugs' for nothing!" (snicker-snicker) Yep. I was really surprised to find out that 1967's The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (or, TSVDM, for short) was, in fact, directed by Roger Corman, the undisputed "king" of super low-budget horror and teen exploitation films of the 1950s and 60s.(And, I must say that I was quite impressed) Up to this point in his film-making career Corman had been directing "quickies" with budgets in the $250,000 range (or less). But, then, with this picture he was handed a cool million to throw around. And, by what I saw, I don't think that he recklessly squandered that dough on this production.Set in the year 1929 (in the crime-drenched metropolis of Chicago), TSVDM's story is, indeed, based on actual events that led up to a very special sort of Valentine's Day surprise that made the most sensational headlines that you could possibly imagine.Featuring plenty of swell-looking cars, cheap-looking whores, and deadly, drive-by shootings, TSVDM is an exciting gangster picture of treachery and double-crosses that, convincingly enough, captures the nostalgic feel of a "Depression Era" America.Other than a few "damns", and a couple of "hells", thrown in for good measure, this rough, tough macho-man picture contained no profanity, whatsoever.My one big beef about this picture has to do with the gross miscasting of actor Jason Robards as the ruthlessly violent Al Capone character.I mean, let's face it, Capone was, without question, one of the meanest and lousiest bastards imaginable. And, nope, I'm sorry to say, Robards just didn't cut the mustard with his portrayal. No way, Jose.

lord woodburry Although Jason Robards doesn't look very Italian, he exudes The Big Feller's flamboyancy throughout this documentary styled movie about the infamous prohibition era massacre on February 14, 1929 at the Clark Street Garage in Chicago. The film brings the viewer through the history of Capone's bloody rivalry with the North side Irish German gang, the foiled attempts of the North Side Gang to take out Capone and Capone's bloody reprisals eliminating each successive Northside leader until the Northside's crown fell to Bugsy Moran (Ralph Meeker).Ralph Meeker plays the part of the Northside leader as a foil to Jason Robard's mercurial Capone. In the film version, both Capone and Moran have excellent heads for business, leadership and strategy but Meeker as Moran assumes an aura of polished reserve and distance.As the movie opens Capone hat in hand requests Mafia approval of a hit on Moran.But on this occasion the Northside has the jump on Capone. The Mafia Don is executed. However Moran's expectation that the assassination will cause an ascension of Joe Aiello (Alex D'Arcy) a Mafioso more friendly to Moran proves to be unrealistic. Capone brutally kills Joe Aiello in reprisal.The stage is now set for the biggest assassination in US history as Capone uses imported Mafia hoods to dress up like cops and machine gun down Moran's entire mob. Mafia spies misidentified a Moran lookalike as Moran; Moran escaped the trap.Reporter: Y'know some are sayin' that it really was the cops who shot those men.Bugs Moran: You must be new to this town, mister. Only Al Capone kills like that.Only Frank Gusenberg (David Canary) lived to die in hospital. There he was interrogated by the stereotypical "good guy cop" of the 1960s, Russ Conway who had played The Hardy Boy's father, a serial that went along with The Micky Mouse Club. Interrogator: (to Frank Gusenberg in hospital) I've got to level with you Frank, you're not going to make it. Want me to call a preacher? Frank Gusenberg: Go Away.It was a nice touch of comic relief at the end of a gruesome story, although succeeding generations unfamiliar with the Mickey Mouse Club will not understand.Comparable films include Ben Gazzara in Capone and Tony Curtis in Lepke. I don't think the film is quite in the same genre as THE GOODFATHER I & II, which I much admire. This is a historical biopic; Godfather is all too real fiction.

chuck-reilly Although reviewers were mixed in their feelings for this semi-famous gangster picture from 1967, I think most of them missed the point. Roger Corman's "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" was filmed on a budget of exactly $1,000,000. Even for 1967 standards, that's about as low as you can go. And look what he got for his cool million; Jason Robards, Ralph Meeker, George Segal, Joseph Campanella, Bruce Dern (a Corman stock player back then) and a host of other famous names including soon-to-be movie star Jack Nicholson. Some reviewers were obviously thrown for a loop because of Corman's use of a narrator to the events (Paul Frees) and the fact that he tackled a worthy subject compared to his earlier sci-fi and biker film efforts. Their preconceptions of Corman's talent got the better of them and this film proved that he was a first-class director worthy of respect from his peers. The plot involves the famous massacre of Chicago gang-lord Bugs Moran's men during the height of prohibition. Al Capone (a raging Jason Robards) was the architect of these murders and was aided and abetted by "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn (Clint Ritchie) who was the true mastermind. Moran himself (Ralph Meeker) was able to avoid the "hit" and lived to tell about it. George Segal is the real star of the show as Peter Gusenberg, one of Moran's henchmen. His fight with his girlfriend (Jean Hale) over an expensive fur is one of the highlights of the film. Jack Nicholson (another Corman regular) makes a brief appearance as one of Capone's hit men and is allowed to utter one memorable line about the effects of "garlic-flavored" bullets. The film stays relatively close to true events and except for the fact that Jason Robards doesn't look anything like the real Al Capone and is too old for the part, the movie is mostly historically accurate. All in all, "The St. Valentine's Massacre" is an entertaining and informative movie, and all done on a shoestring budget. As they say, they don't make them like this anymore.