This article possibly contains original research. 20th Century Fox to realize what he described as “the most accurate, authentic gangster film ever. A young Bruce Dern things for valentine’s day for him one of the victims of the massacre, and Jack Nicholson has a bit part as a gangster. An organized crime war breaks out between two rival gangs in Chicago during the Roaring Twenties.
With an elaborate plan to eliminate Moran and his gang once and for all in motion, Capone retreats to his winter home in Miami to establish an alibi while his henchmen, two of whom are dressed as police officers, stage a fake police raid in a northside garage on February 14, 1929, where they ambush and execute five members of Moran’s gang, including Peter Gusenberg. Orson Welles was Cormans original choice to play Capone, but Twentieth Century Fox vetoed the deal, fearing that Welles was “undirectable. Roger Corman said he wanted produce a film about the “gangsterism” that “played a significant role in the development of American culture” but “I wanted to do it honestly, and not in the usual romanticized man-against-the-system. Corman was drawn to the idea of making a film about the St.