Title: List of films set around Valentine's Day
Content: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre - a 1967 dramatization directed by Roger Corman 
Title: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film)
Content:  The St. Valentine's Day Massacre is a 1967 American gangster film based on the 1929 mass murder of seven members of the Northside Gang (led by George "Bugs" Moran) on orders from Al Capone. The picture was directed by Roger Corman, written by Howard Browne, and starring Jason Robards Jr. as a remarkably slender Capone, Ralph Meeker as Moran, George Segal as Peter Gusenberg, and David Canary as Frank Gusenberg. Corman, better known as a director and producer of low-budget B movies, was given his largest budget to date (estimated at $2.5 million) and the backing of 20th Century Fox to realize what he described as "the most accurate, authentic gangster film ever." With a voiceover narration by Paul Frees, the film depicts in detail the events leading up the massacre in a docudrama-style, with many authentic historical details. A young Bruce Dern plays one of the victims of the massacre, and Jack Nicholson has a bit part as a gangster. Also featured are Jan Merlin as one of Moran's lieutenants and veteran Corman actor Dick Miller as one of the phony policemen involved in the massacre. Leo Gordon makes an early screen appearance as Heitler.
Title: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film)
Content:  The St. Valentine's Day Massacre was released as a Region 1 widescreen DVD by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on May 23, 2006. It was issued as a limited-edition region-free Blu-ray by Twilight Time.
Title: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film)
Content:  the period and the event extensively. Corman hired Browne to write the script for the film. Browne felt that the gangsters were "... complex human beings, shrewd, cunning men whose qualities of leadership, had it been directed into honest channels, might have contributed to this country's history, rather than leaving a scar." Corman had recently endured an unhappy experience working for Columbia, but still wanted to try working at a major studio. In February 1966, he signed on to make the film from Brown's script with Richard Zanuck at 20th Century Fox. Corman later said that Fox had invited him in to pitch ideas, and he had told them about The St. Valentine's Day Massacre and a biopic about the Red Baron, but 
Title: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film)
Content:  Orson Welles was originally supposed to play Capone, but Twentieth Century Fox vetoed the deal, fearing that Welles was "undirectable." The film's narration has a style similar to that of Welles but was narrated by renowned Hollywood voice actor Paul Frees.
Title: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film)
Content:  open-ended schedule. However, Corman was disgusted with the great waste of time and money involved with typical film-production techniques. He was given a $2.5 million budget and completed the film with $400,000 to spare. Corman, an independent director, was most comfortable in his own style: shoestring budgets and condensed shooting schedules. The shoot took just over seven weeks, though this marked the longest duration for any of Corman's film. "By the end of the movie I was very weary," he said. Nonetheless, the film is generally considered one of his best as a director. Corman later wrote that "... physically, it is one of the best films I ever directed because I was able to walk around the lot and pick those fantastic sets."
Title: Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
Content: Braucher, Scott (March 19, 2012). "Life Member Dan Tortorell, 95, Was At St. Valentine's Day Massacre". National Press Photographers Association. ; Chicago Shimpo – The Chicago Japanese American News, Friday, October 10, 2008. Volume 6732, p. 7.. ; Helmer, William and Arthur J. Bilek. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Bloodbath That Brought Down Al Capone. Nashville: Cumberland House, 2004. ISBN: 978-1-58182-329-5. 
Title: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film)
Content:  Corman originally wanted to shoot the film on location in Chicago but eventually shot it on the Fox backlot. He filmed the massacre scene in a Desilu lot that was converted to resemble the garage where the crime was committed, as the real garage had been demolished by the time at which the movie started production. Before filming, Corman found photos of the murder scene. He asked the actors to study the stills before rehearsals and the shoot. After one take, the massacre looked like that of the photos, and each actor's collapse matched the positions in which the victims fell in the real massacre. The film was one of the few that Corman directed from a major Hollywood studio with a generous budget and 
Title: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film)
Content:  According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $4,550,000 in rentals to break even and made $4,165,000, meaning it made a loss. In 2009, Empire magazine named the film #7 in a poll of the 20 Greatest Gangster Movies You've (Probably) Never Seen.
Title: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film)
Content:  Fox had just made The Blue Max, it opted for the gangster film. Corman made the film following the great success of The Wild Angels. While The Wild Angels had a budget of $350,000, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre was budgeted at $2.5 million. It was the most expensive film that Corman had made. He later claimed that the film cost $1 million and that the rest was studio overhead. Corman said, "There comes a time when the public conscience needs jolting and in St. Valentine's Day Massacre this is our intention. It is also certain that the movie will make money - crime is always box office." Corman wanted classical actors to play gangsters and offered the part of Capone to Orson 

Question: Who was the director of The St. Valentine's Day Massacre?
Answer: Roger Corman.
Roger William Corman.