Alias Jimmy Valentine
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Maurice Tourneur
Cast: Robert Warwick [Lee Randall, alias Jimmy Valentine], Ruth Shepley [Rose Fay], Robert Cummings [Detective Doyle], Alec B. Francis [Bill Avery], John Hines (Johnny Hines) [‘Red’ Joclyn], Thomas M. Osborne [himself]; Fred Truesdell (Frederick Truesdell) [Lieutenant Governor Fay], David Flanagan (D.J. Flanagan) [Cotton], Walter Craven [‘Handler’], John Boone [‘Blinkey’ Davis, the forger], Nora Cecil [nurse], Madge Evans [child locked in vault], Jake Wilk, Robert Starkey
World Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by World Film Manufacturing Company [Peerless Pictures]. / Produced by William A. Brady. Scenario by Maurice Tourneur, from the play adaptation Alias Jimmy Valentine by Paul Armstrong based on the short story “A Retrieved Reformation” by O. Henry (William Sidney Porter). Set design by Ben Carré. / © 23 February 1915 by World Film Manufacturing Company [LU4642]. Released 22 February 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] Katchmer-Eighty p. 415 lists the release date as 6 March 1915.
Drama: Crime.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0046.
Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (American Film Institute / National Film and Sound Archive, Australia collection) [35mm preservation positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Banks - Law: Enforcement: Police: Detectives - Rescues - Safes
Listing updated: 15 November 2020.
References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 nn. F1.0046, F1.0047; Katchmer-Eighty p. 415; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 118; Steinbrunner-Encyclopedia p. 196 : ClasIm-221 p. 53.
Home video: DVD.
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