Gladys George, a superlative actress often wasted in secondary roles, carries her starring assignment in Valiant is the Word for Carrie with singular brilliance. George plays the town trollop, who for the love of two orphaned children sets up a successful dry-cleaning business.
Is it worth your time? If you like old-school melodramas that aren't afraid to be a little messy, then yes. You'll probably enjoy this if you have a soft spot for 1930s tearjerkers where the lead character is constantly getting the short end of the stick. If you need your movies to be fast-paced or strictly logical, yo...
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"Is it worth your time? If you like old-school melodramas that aren't afraid to be a little messy, then yes. You'll probably enjoy this if you have a soft spot for 1930s tearjerkers where the lead character is constantly getting the short end of the stick. If you need your movies to be fast-paced or strictly logical, you might want to skip it. Gladys George is the whole show here. Seriously. She plays a woman labeled as the town 'trollop'—which is a word I haven't used in a while—who ends up rai..."
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