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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by Roger Corman and produced by Roger Corman.

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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!
Interrogator: [to Frank Gusenberg after the shooting] I've got to tell you Frank, you're not going to make it. Want me to call a preacher?
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More squib charges were used in this film than in the three-hour war epic The Longest Day.
The real garage where the massacre took place (2122 N. Clark St, Chicago) was torn down three months after the movie was released.
Although most of the facts in the film are close to the truth, the only real deviation concerns the fate of Joe Aiello. While the movie does accurately portray Aiello aligning himself with George Moran and conspiring to kill Mafia chieftain Pasqualino "Patsy" Lolordo, he was not killed personally by Al Capone on a train (though Capone was known to kill when seized by a fit of personal rage). As shown in the film, Aiello, knowing he was marked for death by Capone, did arrange to have a cousin purchase a train ticket for him at the last minute so that he could skip town. However, he was killed by machine gunners from an apartment window opposite his apartment building as he was leaving to catch the train on October 23rd, 1930: A year and nine months after the massacre, not before.
When "Bugs" Moran is leaving his hotel, just before the massacre, the clerk stops him and says "You have a call from a Mr. Bernstein in Detroit". "Bernstein" was the last name of the four brothers - Abe, Joe, Ray and Izzy - who ran Detroit's murderous "Purple Gang". The real George Moran and Al Capone used the Bernsteins to hijack other gangsters' liquor shipments from Canada. This fact is evident later when Moran complains to his bodyguards about Bernstein jacking up the price.
Jack Nicholson was to play Bruce Dern's character, Johnny May, but instead shows up in a bit part as a henchman, Gino, loading garlic-soaked bullets into a Tommy gun (Nicholson was still paid for all seven weeks of the shoot.)
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