St. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE (1967)

Fans of Roger Corman will have a field day with this tour de force treatment of the infamous Prohibition bloodbath. It has everything you'd expect from the King of the B's: Garish sets. Cut rate snowfalls (cars make no tire tracks in the snow). Six-minute, no-holds-barred fight between a gangster and his moll. Huge ketchup blood spatters. Ponderous, documentary style voice-overs by the mellifluous Reed Hadley (full of historical errors, too). Inspired miscasting of the principals: Jason Robards as Capone (with rubber-cement scars), George Segal as Pete Gusenberg, both compensating by frenzied overacting (Segal out over-the-tops Pacino in Scarface, if you can imagine such a feat). And, with it, a great supporting cast of Hollywood's most familiar thugs and plug-uglies: Ralph Meeker, Clint Ritchie, Frank Silvero, Joseph Campanella, David Canary, Harold J. Stone, Paul Richards, Joe Turkel and Alex Rocco. Bruce Dern and, yes, Jack Nicholson have bit parts. All of this brought off with Corman's usual verve. Love it? Hate it? Up to you.