The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film)
1967
Search results
Rating
Jun 29, 2021 · If he’s not the most famous mobster, Al Capone is undoubtedly the most cinematically interesting. From the Brian De Palma-directed masterpiece The Untouchables to the recent Tom Hardy-starring...
- 5 Al Capone
- 4 Dillinger and Capone
- 3 The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
- 2 Scarface
- 1 The Untouchables
The first film on Al Capone released just a mere twelve years after his death, is 1959's Al Capone, starring Rod Seiger. It follows the beginning and rise of Capone's life in the mafia, along with his expansion of his criminal empire. Featuring the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, dealings with infamous mobsters such as Bugs Moran and Johnny Torrio, a...
What could be better than a film with one legendary gangster? A film with two legendary gangsters, and that's exactly what Hillwood Entertainment did with 1995's Dillinger and Capone. Featuring Martin Sheen and F. Murray Abraham in the titular roles, Dillinger and Capone is a fictional imaging, in which Al Capone blackmails John Dillinger (who does...
Getting into the grittiness of Capone's career, director Roger Corman takes Capone's most infamous event, and in turn gives audiences one of the best gangster films of the modern film era. Starring Jason Robards Jr, Dick Miller, and Jack Nicholson, the movie chronicles the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in a docu-drama style, showing the events leadi...
Though very loosely based on Al Capone (the 1983 film is a loose remake of the 1932 Scarface film, which was based on the 1929 novel of the same name), Scarface (1983) is one of the better modern gangster films. Starring Al Pacino, Scarface follows the story of a young Cuban immigrant named Tony Montana, who after arriving in America, becomes one o...
Possibly the most beloved film based on Al Capone, The Untouchables follows the side of the law, as the famous Eliot Ness (played by Kevin Costner) forms a team called "The Untouchables" in order to bring down Al Capone at his criminal heights during Prohibition. With a star-studded cast of Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro (as Al Capone), and ...
- Scarface (1932) Despite being short-lived, the era of what's now known as Pre-Code Hollywood is remembered for defying many of the norms we associate with typical classic films.
- Al Capone. With the rigid enforcement of the Hays Code coming to pass in 1934, it would be a while before audiences could once again enjoy films whose content fell outside its tight restrictions.
- The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Headed up by prolific producer Roger Cormen and released in 1967, "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" focuses on the war between the North and South Side gangs being waged over the future of Chicago's criminal enterprises.
- Road to Perdition. Tom Hanks takes on the starring role in 2002's "Road to Perdition" as Michael Sullivan, a man practically born into a life of crime. Set during some of the toughest days of the Great Depression, Sullivan works as an enforcer for John Rooney, a coldhearted crime boss operating just outside the reach of the Chicago underworld.
People also ask
Is Al Capone a good movie?
Is Tom Hardy a good movie about Al Capone?
Was Al Capone a hero?
When did Al Capone die?
May 14, 2020 · Movies. What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Capone. We break down the wild new biopic starring Tom Hardy. By Matthew Dessem. May 14, 202012:59 PM. Al Capone and Tom Hardy. Photo illustration by...
- Matthew Dessem
May 12, 2020 · Buying into “Capone,” a freehanded take on the final year of Al Capone’s life, requires accepting Tom Hardy’s grotesque performance as the notorious Chicago gangster. Hardy embodies Capone...
- Josh Trank
Robert De Niro's Al Capone is a little over the top, but what isn't in this movie. It doesn't really matter that the film is highly fictional, because the story it tells is a good one.
- (75)
- Crime, Drama
- R
Capone is a 2020 American biographical drama film written, directed and edited by Josh Trank, with Tom Hardy starring as the eponymous gangster Al Capone. The film centers on Capone after his 11-year sentence at Atlanta Penitentiary, as he suffers from neurosyphilis and dementia while living in Florida.
