Al Capone (film) the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, with several of Moran's men gunned down in a Chicago garage. Capone and Moran call a truce, but when he learns Keely has been helping a Moran plot to kill him, Capone ends the reporter's life instead. Maureen finally has her fill of Capone's corruption and violence, while Schaefer and the feds find a way to finally put Capone away—on charges of tax evasion, earning him 11 years at Alcatraz. Films based on the lives of real-life gangsters had been banned under the Production Code. This ban was lifted in the late 1950s leading to
Pre-Code crime films be rejected by local censors. Justus D. Barnes, was "Bronco Billy Anderson", leader of an outlaw gang, from the silent film, "The Great Train Robbery" (1903), the first, "Western", ever filmed. The Western was a subgenre, of crime films. Scenes where criminals aimed guns at the camera, were considered inappropriate by many state censor boards, in the pre-Code and Code era, and were removed from public viewing. In the early 1930s, several real life criminals became celebrities. Two in particular captured the American imagination: Al Capone and John Dillinger. Gangsters like Capone had transformed the perception of entire towns. Capone