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Alias Jimmy Valentine
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Maurice Tourneur
Cast: Robert Warwick [Lee Randall, alias Jimmy Valentine], Ruth Shepley [Rose Fay], Robert Cummings [Detective Doyle], Alec B. Francis [Bill Avery], John Hines (Johnny Hines) [‘Red’ Joclyn], Thomas M. Osborne [himself]; Fred Truesdell (Frederick Truesdell) [Lieutenant Governor Fay], David Flanagan (D.J. Flanagan) [Cotton], Walter Craven [‘Handler’], John Boone [‘Blinkey’ Davis, the forger], Nora Cecil [a nurse], Madge Evans [Rose’s little sister, locked in the vault], Jake Wilk, Robert Starkey
World Film Manufacturing Company production in association with Liebler & Company; distributed by World Film Manufacturing Company [Peerless Pictures]. / Produced by William A. Brady. Scenario by Maurice Tourneur, from the play adaptation Alias Jimmy Valentine by Paul Armstrong based on the short story “A Retrieved Reformation” by O. Henry (William Sidney Porter). Set design by Ben Carré. / © 23 February 1915 by World Film Manufacturing Company [LU4642]. Premiered 14 February 1915 at Sing Sing Prison, in Ossining, New York. Released 22 February 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Vivian Martin was originally cast as Rose. [?] Katchmer-Eighty p. 415 lists the release date as 6 March 1915. The play was subsequently filmed as Alias Jimmy Valentine (1920).
Drama: Crime.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0046.
Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (American Film Institute / National Film and Sound Archive, Australia collection) [35mm preservation positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Banks - Law: Enforcement: Police: Detectives - Rescues - Safes
Listing updated: 7 May 2025.
References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 nn. F1.0046, F1.0047; Katchmer-Eighty p. 415; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 118; Steinbrunner-Encyclopedia p. 196 : ClasIm-221 p. 53 : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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