“Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928 film)”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Released on November 15, 1928, the film was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first partially talking film.^[4] It was completed as a silent film before Irving Thalberg sent back Lionel Barrymore and William Haines to repeat their performances for the last two reels with sound.^[5]

Two previous film versions were made in 1915 and in 1920 at the old Metro Studios with Bert Lytell.^[6] This film is now considered lost,^[7] with parts of the soundtrack surviving on Vitaphone disks.

Plot

Jimmy Valentine is the alias of an infamous safe cracker who has just been sentenced to prison for four years for his crimes. He does not stay locked up for long, though, as he is released after ten months. When he is released, he packs his state of the art, custom robbery tools and commits several more robberies. Ben Price, the detective who put him away the first time is called to the case, but although he knows it is Jimmy (because of the style the crimes were committed with) he cannot find him. Jimmy has actually fled and he is currently in the small town of Elmore, Arkansas, with plans to rob the local bank there.

However, he finds himself love-struck by the banker's beautiful daughter, Annabel Adams, and begins to fall in love with her. In order to get such a beautiful girl, he decides to turn over a new leaf and give up his criminal career and take another alias, Ralph D. Spencer. "Ralph" opens a shoe-making store and is very successful in doing so. He even begins to like his new life, and easily wins Annabel's heart, becoming engaged to her. He writes a letter to an old friend, and tells him to meet him in Little Rock, where he will give him the robbery tools he doesn't need anymore. On the day of the exchange, however, the banker shows the town his new safe, that cannot be broken into. Annabel's nieces are amazed at the sheer size of it and begin to walk in and out of it.

Unfortunately, one accidentally shuts the door, locking the other inside. Everyone panics, as the banker has not set the combination yet, and Annabel begs "Ralph" to do something. This is hard for Valentine, as Ben Price has also tracked him down, and watches to see his decision. As Jimmy has tried so hard to start over, he finds himself making a very difficult decision. However, he decides that there is only so much air in the safe, and if he does not take action, the terrified child may suffocate. Valentine pulls out his bag of tools and breaks the safe open in a matter of minutes, surprising the people "Ralph" was with, and saving the child. (He ironically broke his own record in his haste.) Jimmy knows that since he has revealed his identity, he must leave. As he is leaving, he decides that he may as well go to prison and he surrenders to Ben. However, Ben, who knows that Valentine has truly changed, tells Jimmy he should go to Little Rock, and leaves, pretending that he never met him.

Cast

See also

References

1. ^{{cite book |last1=Gomery |first1=Douglas |last2=Pafort-Overduin |first2=Clara |title=Movie History: A Survey |edition=2nd |year=2011 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781136835254 |page=[https://books.google.com.my/books?id=s0PP2Gm8xNcC&pg=PA144&q=Loews+144&hl=en#v=snippet&q=Loews%20144&f=false 144]}}
2. ^{{cite book|title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930|year=1971|page=12}}
3. ^{{cite book|others=Bloom, Ken|title=The Routledge Guide To Broadway|year=2007|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=0-415-97380-5|page=81}}
4. ^{{cite book|others=Bradley, Edwin M. |title=The First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical Filmography Of 171 Features, 1927 Through 1932|year=2004|publisher=McFarland|isbn=0-786-42029-4|pages=18–19}}
5. ^[https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0018638/trivia?ref_=m_tt_trv_trv]
6. ^{{cite book|last=Langman|first=Larry |title=American Film Cycles: The Silent Era|year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=0-313-30657-5|page=182}}
7. ^Alias Jimmy Valentine at SilentEra

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