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Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915)

Alias Jimmy Valentine poster
Directed by
Maurice Tourneur
Genre
silent film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A reformed safecracker tries to start a new life under a fake name. When a young girl gets trapped in a bank vault, he must reveal his past to save her.

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What happens

Alias Jimmy Valentine is a 1915 American silent crime film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Robert Warwick, Robert Cummings and Alec B. Francis. It is based on the 1909 play Alias Jimmy Valentine, which was subsequently made into films again in 1920 and 1928. The play was based on the O. Henry short story "A Retrieved Reformation". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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