Jimmy Valentine, a prisoner in Sing Sing for safe-cracking, although guilty, maintains his innocence. When he obtains a pardon, he goes straight, influenced by a beautiful girl named Rose.


The first miracle of Alias Jimmy Valentine is that it makes a stack of nickel-loaned melodramas feel like chamber music; the second is that it persuades us to root for a man whose fingerprints still cling to every safe in the Eastern Seaboard. Director Edmund Mortimer, armed with O. Henry’s anecdotal elegance and Pau...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Edmund Mortimer

Dallas M. Fitzgerald
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" The first miracle of Alias Jimmy Valentine is that it makes a stack of nickel-loaned melodramas feel like chamber music; the second is that it persuades us to root for a man whose fingerprints still cling to every safe in the Eastern Seaboard. Director Edmund Mortimer, armed with O. Henry’s anecdotal elegance and Paul Armstrong’s stagecraft, turns a rote redemption tale into a staccato poem of shadows, keys, and glances sharp enough to slice celluloid. Bert Lytell plays Jimmy with the insouci..."
Finis Fox, Paul Armstrong, O. Henry
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