Alias Jimmy Valentine

Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928)

He had a thousand aliases!- but each one was either a laugh, a thrill, or a dramatic touch which reached the heart!

An Incompetent insurance salesman sells a policy to Jesse James and has to protect his client until he can get it back.

Date of release
1928-11-15
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Crime, Drama
Director
Jack Conway

Casting

Interesting facts

Alias Jimmy Valentine is a 1928 American sound part-talkie crime drama film directed by Jack Conway and starring William Haines, Leila Hyams, Lionel Barrymore, and Karl Dane. The film features talking sequences along with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The film is based on the 1909 play Alias Jimmy Valentine by Paul Armstrong, which itself was based on an O. Henry short story. The play toured in travelling production companies making it extremely popular. It was revived on Broadway in 1921. Two previous film adaptations had been produced at the old Metro Studios.

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