Obvious Inaccuracies Bother Me

I found the movie enjoyable even though Jason Robards hardly resembles Al Capone. The movie has Al Capone slitting the throat of rival Joe Aiello on a train as he attempted to leave Chicago before the Massacre was even planned. However, Joe Aiello died from a hail of bullets on October 23, 1930, as he left an apartment building, more than a year after the Massacre took place. This would have been an easy fact to substantiate, yet the film contains this unnecessary error. The movie also has Albert Anselmi and John Scalise murdered by Capone with a baseball bat in "Capone's mansion" following a banquet honoring them. The killings actually took place in a Hammond, Indiana, road house. In addition, Joe Guinta was a third one clubbed to death at that time. Finally the movie includes Boris Chapman and Adolph Moeller as two who took part in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. That may or may not be, but no mention is made of Fred "Killer" Burke who it is widely believed to be one who definitely took part in the killings. The movie was very entertaining and worthwhile, but the inaccuracies that I have mentioned could certainly have been easily checked out.

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This is a classic. If you haven't yet seen it, I strongly advise that you should. It's a well known formula - bad guys fighting it out for control of a city. A few mistakes were made with the casting (whose idea was it to have Jason Robards playing Al Capone?) but nonetheless, it is a great film. That is, for a Roger Corman film.

one of the best gangster flicks ever

this movie with a few select scenes inaccurrate was not meant
to satisfy a few egg heads with true incidents as they happen.
we get the basic storey of 2 rival gangs trying to take over the rackets in chicago and the storey and back ground info to keep the viewer interested. one of the down points is that the real life gangsters, were in fact younger men between 25 and 35,
jason robards, may been pushing 50 when he was playing al capone in his 20's. john agar a noted ww2 vet who married
shirley temple plays dion obanion, who is portrayed as a mid 50's
business man instead of a manin his early 30's, the same with
earl hymie weiss, another guy in his mid 50's playing a man in his mid 30's, the gusenburg brother's and jack mcgurn were portrayed in the right age group, but they were older than al capone, as portrayed by jason robards.
well anyway i like the movie, plenty of background info
and a great storey.