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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Crime, History
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who appreciate meticulously staged historical crime dramas with fatalistic tension, period atmosphere, and an unsentimental interest in criminal power structures.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, darkly comic
- Payoff
- unease, revelation
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- organized crime, power struggle, betrayal, lawlessness, violence
- Setting
- Prohibition-era 1920s, urban streets, criminal headquarters, and industrial hideouts
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