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The bowling alley scene


I assumed this was based on the demise of "Machine Gun Jack" McGurn. But it turns out McGurn was killed four years after this film. Creepy. Maybe his murders decided to re-create the scene in the film, which was said to be Capone's favorite.





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Wrong. He was obviously based on Bugs Moran, if he was the only survivor of the St Valentines Day Massacre.


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