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Alias Jimmy Valentine is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jack Conway released in USA on 15 november 1928 with Lionel Barrymore

Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928)

Alias Jimmy Valentine
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Released in USA 15 november 1928
Length 1h28
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating70% 3.514873.514873.514873.514873.51487

Alias Jimmy Valentine was a 1928 American crime drama film directed by Jack Conway, and starring William Haines, Leila Hyams, Lionel Barrymore, and Karl Dane. The film is based on the O. Henry story "A Retrieved Reformation", which was turned into the 1910 play Alias Jimmy Valentine by Paul Armstrong. The play toured in travelling production companies making it extremely popular. It was revived on Broadway in 1921.

Released on November 15, 1928, the film was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first partially talking film. Two previous film versions were made in 1915 and in 1920 at the old Metro Studios with Bert Lytell. This film is now considered lost.

Synopsis

Jimmy Valentine is the alias of an infamous safe cracker who has just been sentenced to prison for four years for his crimes. He does not stay locked up for long, though, as he is released after ten months. When he is released, he packs his state of the art, custom robbery tools and commits several more robberies. Ben Price, the detective who put him away the first time is called to the case, but although he knows it is Jimmy (because of the style the crimes were committed with) he cannot find him. Jimmy has actually fled and he is currently in the small town of Elmore, Arkansas, with plans to rob the local bank there.

Actors

Lionel Barrymore

(Doyle)William Haines

(Jimmy Valentine)Leila Hyams

(Rose)Karl Dane

(Swede)Tully Marshall

(Avery)Howard C. Hickman

(Mr. Lane)
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