The St. Valentine's Day Massacre is a 1967 gangster film based on the 1929 Chicago mass murder of seven members of the Northside gang, directed against George "Bugs" Moran by Al Capone. It was directed by Roger Corman and written by Howard Browne. The film starred Jason Robards as Al Capone, George Segal as Peter Gusenberg, David Canary as Frank Gusenberg and Ralph Meeker as Bugs Moran. It was also believed that Welles was the narrator of the film, but it was actually narrated by well-known Hollywood voice actor Paul Frees in Welles' style. A very young Bruce Dern plays one of the victims of... the massacre, and Jack Nicholson has a bit part as a gangster. Also featured are Jan Merlin as one of Bugs Moran's lieutenants, and veteran Corman actor Dick Miller as one of the phoney policemen involved in the massacre. The film is a somewhat rough mixture of correct historical fact and outright movie fiction, though it is presented in docu-drama style.
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| Release date: | 1967 |
| Directed by: | Roger Corman |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Editor: | William B. Murphy |
| Music by: | Fred Steiner, Lionel Newman |
| Cinematography: | Milton R. Krasner |
| Screenplay by: | Howard Browne |