![]() Capone doesn’t care who else gets killed as long as Bugs goes down for the count. Moran’s sluggers Peter and Frank Gusenberg (George Segal and David Canary) go forward with this plan, not realizing that Capone’s lieutenant Jack ‘Machine Gun’ McGurn (Clint Ritchie) is setting Moran up for a major hit. Moran hopes to replace Capone by replacing him with a ringer of his own, Mafia chieftain Aiello (Alex D’Arcy). Both camps formulate elaborate scenarios to eliminate the competition. Mobsters Al Capone and Bugs Moran (Jason Robards and Ralph Meeker) compete for market space in the booze ‘n’ vice rackets on the North Side. Film historians also consider Corman’s thriller a major step in the development of the gangster genre.Ĭhicago, 1929. Valentine’s Day Massacre were considered an extreme in screen bloodletting. Before the breakout of Sam Peckinpah and ubiquitous violence, the machine-gunnings and rub-outs in The St. When A.I.P.’s Arkoff and Nicholson began to re-edit his movies behind his back, Corman took the next logical step and formed his own distribution company.įresh from his smash hit The Wild Angels, Corman fixated on a violent subject in a year of particularly violent movies: Bonnie & Clyde, Point Blank. Corman soon found that he wanted no part of the chaos of studio filmmaking - the overhead, the loss of control - and retreated to the independent world that he knew so well. The success of Corman’s American-International Vincent Price movies gave him the opportunity to pursue a career as an A-List directing talent. ![]() Corman even gets in a cynical/subversive jab, comparing the tactics of bootlegging hoodlums to those of modern corporations, and nations. The movie’s mostly authenticated account encouraged fans to look more deeply into the true-life stories behind their favorite gangster bad guys. It’s instead just one of the best gangster pictures of the post-1930s era. Valentine’s Day Massacre might have been a great classic. Were it not for some less than perfect casting, his The St. Back in 1967 Roger Corman got the idea to tell the tale of Chicago’s most infamous mob rubout in a semi-documentary style, playing with the real names, dates and specifics of the actual events. ![]() Period gangster pictures still pop up once in a while when somebody thinks of a new angle, like casting the mobsters from young heartthrob actors. We welcome this particular title back, mainly so new fans of Roger Corman can get a look-see at his biggest studio picture, and in a fine new transfer. With Powerhouse Indicator and Arrow films this is often the case. This means that one might have a perfectly good disc of a picture in hand, only to find that a new one coming out has more attractive extras. ![]() A limited edition from one company will sell out or time out, opening the door for another limited edition elsewhere. The business model for Blu-rays has changed a lot in the last few years. Stone, Kurt Kreuger, Joe Turkel, John Agar, Celia Lovsky, Tom Reese, Jan Merlin,Alex D’Arcy, Reed Hadley, Gus Trikonis, Charles Dierkop, Alex Rocco, Leo Gordon, Russ Conway, Jonathan Haze, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Jack Nicholson, Joan Shawlee.Īrt Direction Philip Jefferies, Jack Martin Smith Starring Jason Robards, George Segal, Ralph Meeker, Jean Hale, Frank Silvera, Joseph Campanella, Richard Bakalyan, David Canary, Bruce Dern, Harold J. ![]() Street Date Ap/ available from Powerhouse Films UK / £15.99 Where gun massacres are concerned, today ‘Every Day Is a Holiday.’ġ967 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 100 min. Jason Robards, George Segal, Ralph Meeker and a couple dozen top-notch hoods replay the ugly events that led up to the notorious 1929 gangland slaying, which now almost seems tame. Roger Corman’s ferocious gangster epic (more squibs!) bounces back in a UK Region B edition, noisier and bloodier than ever. ![]()
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