{"id":12533,"date":"2015-10-24T18:48:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T22:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12533"},"modified":"2015-10-24T19:42:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T23:42:38","slug":"roger-corman-meets-fox-the-st-valentines-day-massacre-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12533","title":{"rendered":"Roger Corman meets Fox: The St. Valentine&#8217;s Day Massacre (1967)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StValentinesDayMassacre_Fr_poster_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12537\" alt=\"StValentinesDayMassacre_Fr_poster_s\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StValentinesDayMassacre_Fr_poster_s.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StValentinesDayMassacre_Fr_poster_s.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StValentinesDayMassacre_Fr_poster_s-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>As I\u2019m getting ready to leave to catch the restored CanCon 3D <em>classique<\/em> <strong>The Mask<\/strong> (1961) + the signing of the U of T book <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12508\">Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, here\u2019s a film review of a Twilight Time Blu-ray that slipped under my radar \u2013 Roger Corman\u2019s rare studio production of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12532\">The St. Valentine\u2019s Day Massacre<\/a><\/strong>, made in 1967 as he was poised to say bye-bye to longtime indie studio American International Pictures and set up his own low budget exploitation shingle, New World Pictures.<\/p>\n<p>TT\u2019s BR is very nice, and features one of Corman\u2019s underrated gangster films. Film historian Julie Kirgo is quite right in regarding the true crime drama as a \u201cless-heralded but equally tough little gangland thriller,\u201d and I remember being shocked at how solid it was when I caught it on pay TV years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Corman made a studio picture? Yes.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s a crime-drama? Yes.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s excellent? Oh, yes, with an especially fantastic cast of character actors.<\/p>\n<p>Should there be flattering photos of tonight\u2019s signing in which it appears I have a full head of hair, I\u2019ll post them with confidence.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also some related audio material \u2013 an intro and a podcast \u2013 tied to <strong>The Mask<\/strong> and a particular chapter in the book by a fine colleague that are buried somewhere on a hard drive. When I\u2019ve cleaned them up, I\u2019ll post them on KQEK.com\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/kqek.com-digital-big-head\/id955326826?mt=2\" target=\"window\">iTunes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCHzcFidxd5GGxYLNqXWxALg\" target=\"window\">YouTube<\/a> channels.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming next:<\/em> Shawn Holmes\u2019 ambitious fractured time thriller <strong>Memory Lane<\/strong> (2013), from Wild Eye Releasing \/ MVD Visual.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of Roger Corman&#8217;s rare studio picture, the outstanding true crime thriller The St. Valentine\u2019s Day Massacre (1967), new on swanky Blu from Twilight Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2562,2563,392,4047],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StValentinesDayMassacre_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-3g9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12541,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12533\/revisions\/12541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}