Tuesday, February 20, 2018
"The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" Roger Corman's 1967 film about the pre-Depression-era mob seems like a stage play now
I hope it is not too exploitive now to post about the 1867
Roger Corman film, “The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre”.
It’s about a huge mob hit by Al Capone on a rival Bugs Moran
gang on Valentine’s Day in 1929 in Chicago.
I recall seeing it at the Varsity theater in downtown Lawrence
in the early fall of 1967, my last semester of graduate school there before the
Army.
I was surprised by the constricted look of 1929 Chicago. The movie seemed like a stage play. But the last scene, the shootings, is quite brutal.
The Fox film is in Cinemascope but the sound is only
mono. The Deluxe color is garish.
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