The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film) as he learns of their plans to kill him. Moran dies in prison, dropping a verbal clue to the crime: "Only Capone kills like that." No one is ever charged for the murders of St. Valentine's Day of 1929, as they either disappear going into hiding or are violently killed. "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" was not, as might be guessed, inspired by the 1959-63 ABC TV series, "The Untouchables", but is one of many motion pictures adapted from a CBS "Playhouse 90" episode; "Seven Against The Wall", broadcast on Playhouse 90 in December 1958, was also written by Harold
St. Brice's Day massacre on the remarkable lack of remorse shown by Æthelred in the Oxford charter, but views the massacre not so much as a royally executed order as an exploitation of popular ethnic hatred and millenarianism. Audrey MacDonald sees it as leading on to the onslaught which eventually led to the accession of Cnut in 1016. St. Brice's Day massacre The St. Brice's Day massacre was the killing of Danes in the Kingdom of England on 13 November 1002, ordered by King Æthelred the Unready. The name refers to St. Brice, fifth-century Bishop of Tours, whose feast day is 13 November. England