The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.5/10   

Director:

Roger Corman

Guionista:

Howard Browne (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

30 junio 1967 (USA)

Género:

Crimen | Drama

Plot:

Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime...

Plot Keywords:

Gangster | Cult Favorite | Stabbed In The Ear

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Robards Doesn't Cut It As Al Capone

Reparto

Jason Robards	...	Al Capone
George Segal	...	Peter Gusenberg
Ralph Meeker	...	George Clarence 'Bugs' Moran
Jean Hale	...	Myrtle
Clint Ritchie	...	Jack McGurn
Frank Silvera	...	Nick Sorello
Joseph Campanella	...	Albert Wienshank
Richard Bakalyan	...	John Scalise
David Canary	...	Frank Gusenberg
Bruce Dern	...	Johnny May
Harold J. Stone	...	Frank Nitti
Kurt Kreuger	...	James Clark
Paul Richards	...	Charles Fischetti
Joe Turkel	...	Jake 'Greasy Thumb' Guzik (as Joseph Turkel)
Milton Frome	...	Adam Heyer

También conocida como:

La matanza del día de San Valentín (Spain) [es]

Duración:

100 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Clasificación:

USA:Approved (Suggested for Mature Audiences) | UK:15 (re-rating) (2006 uncut) | UK:X (original rating) (1967 cut) | Iceland:16 | USA:TV-PG | France:-12 | Netherlands:12 | Singapore:NC-16 | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 (1967) | Sweden:15 | USA:Unrated

Locaciones de Filmación:

Desilu Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Compañía:

Los Altos Productions

Trivialidades:

Jack Nicholson was to play the Bruce Dern character, but instead shows up in a bit part as a henchman, loading garlic-soaked bullets into a Tommy gun (Nicholson was still paid for all seven weeks of the shoot.)

Errores:

Errores en Geografía: The opening credits show the SMC Cartage Company situated on 2122 N Clark Street, with Clark Street ending at a T intersection about a block away. Clark Street is actually a through street running from south of the Loop to the northern city limits.

Citas:

Bartender: [nervously] If you don't like the beer, mister, you don't have to pay for it.
Peter Gusenberg: Well now, ain't you the cat's pajamas!

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Times Square (1980)

Robards Doesn't Cut It As Al Capone

I love those old-time crime movies, especially of Al Capone and the wild days in Chicago in the 1920s....but this was not a good movie. It was too hard-edged, even for the national critics who usually love nasty stuff. Jason Robards also was miscast as Capone. It wasn't that he was too thin, which he was, for the role but he overacted so badly that it was embarrassing to watch. I wonder if Robards ever had a performance this bad? He ruined the movie, as did George Segal who did likewise with his character.

All the characters in here are famous criminals and the film has a deep cast. We even see a young Jack Nicholson popping up for a line or two. The color is good and the 1920s feel to it - the ambiance, if you will - is also solid.

This is a man's movie all the way with tough characters and a ton of action. It was surprising to hear a lot of ethnic slurs, most of which came in the first third of the movie. That probably contributed to the animosity of the politically-correct national film critics.