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Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Good idea lost in the noise

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

This is a truly horrible movie. I joined as I felt the need to speak out. Trying to watch this movie was an exercise in frustration, which goes beyond the old suspend your disbelief mantra.

1987's "The Verne Miller Story" is a rather unique gangster movie. First of all, it deals with a man that very few people are probably familiar with today, that being Verne Miller. Verne Miller was a former, highly decorated soldier from serving in World War I, who became a tough on crime law man in South Dakota. Then one day, after Verne Miller had gone on vacation, it was discovered that he had embezzled several thousand dollars from the county and the "vacation" was nothing more than a cover for a get away. Eventually, he was caught and spent some time in jail. After he got out, he became a full fledge gangster. That much is certainly true. The movie presents Miller as a killer but one that has a heart. For example, there is a part in the movie where Miller takes on a false identity and goes to a fair where he encounters a group of blind children. Verne offers to help the children win prizes by participating in a shooting game and wins a prize for all of the children and goes on his way. Whether or not any of that is true, I cannot say. What I can say is that Scott Glen, who plays Verne Miller, does a great job making you believe that something like that could have happened. The move than follows Miller as he becomes more and more powerful in the underworld by killing for Capone. Along the way, he makes numerous woman friends and lives the high life in a country club. Eventually, he becomes too big for his own good when he leads the Kansas City Massacre, something that the real Verne Miller did. All in all, this is not a bad movie. It has the touches of an artistic movie as far as the colors and cinematography (see the scene that has Miller dressed up as a mannequin for a murder and you'll see what I mean). Great acting by Scott Glen and good shot out scenes. If you love movies like "Bonnie and Clyde", then check this out.

While the movie is about Verne Miller's life it also documents one of the most important events in law enforcement history, the Kansas City Massacre. It was this event that took place at Union Station Kansas City in 1933 that permitted Federal Agents to carry weapons. However, two points to bring up. First is continuity. At the time of the Kansas City Massacre, Al Capone was in Alcatraz and was not, as the movie indicates, out of prison to tell his men not to touch Frank Nash. The second relates to reality. Union Station Kansas City was depicted as an old wooden train "depot" when in reality it is a magnificent 850,000 sq. ft. edifice of marble and granite. Other inconsistencies have been brought to light with recent research. The most significant of these is that the officers killed at Union Station were not killed by Vern Miller and his two cohorts but by other police officers. This was uncovered after the production of this movie.

Verne Miller is a painfully slow and talky gangster film that doesn't have enough action scenes to make it worth watching. Miller was a real-life ex-South Dakota sheriff who become a gangster in the late 1920s. The story has him going to Chicago to become a hitman for Al Capone (badly played by Thomas G. Waites). Capone is impressed by Miller's shooting skills, and makes him a right-hand man in his organization. When Miller hears that a friend of his is being held by the FBI in Kansas City, he goes there against Capone's orders to try and free him. The rescue operation, however, goes terribly wrong and several policemen and Miller's friend are killed. The incident becomes known as "The Kansas City Massacre". In real life, Miller became a gunman after Capone's imprisonment, and never worked for him at all. The Kansas City Massacre was a true event, but there was never any mention of Capone. To say the least, this film is a confusing mess of historical mishmash. AVOID IT AT ALL COSTS!!!