Alias Jimmy Valentine
About Alias Jimmy Valentine
On a train, Lee Randall stops a man from insulting Rose Fay and then disappears. Three years later Rose, visiting Sing Sing with her father, the lieutenant governor, recognizes him among the convicts as Jimmy Valentine. Her father gets him out. Randall takes a job in a bank, refuses his old partners, and goes straight. Rose's little sister is locked in the vault. He opens it with his fingertips filed down, and a detective who has been waiting arrests him for the skill. Rose talks the detective into letting him go.
Cast & crew
More about Alias Jimmy Valentine
Maurice Tourneur directed and wrote the adaptation for producer William A. Brady. World Film released it on February 22, 1915. Quarry, marching, and recreation scenes were shot at Sing Sing, with prisoners as extras. The prison screened the film on February 14.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Robert Warwick plays Jimmy Valentine. Ruth Shepley plays Rose. Robert Cummings plays Doyle. Alec B. Francis plays Bill Avery.
- Madge Evans plays the child locked in the vault. Johnny Hines plays Red Joclyn.
- Thomas Mott Osborne, then warden of Sing Sing, appears as himself.
- The script comes from the 1909 play Alias Jimmy Valentine, itself from O. Henry's "A Retrieved Reformation.
- The story was filmed again in 1920 and in 1928.
- In the last scene the detective says Rose needs Randall more than the State of Massachusetts does.
Scenes
- Rose recognizes Randall in the Sing Sing yard.
- He sands his fingertips and opens the vault around the child.
Influenced by
- O. Henry's story "A Retrieved Reformation
- The 1909 play Alias Jimmy Valentine
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-alias-jimmy-valentine)
