Alias Jimmy Valentine is a 1928 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film directed by Jack Conway, and starring William Haines, Leila Hyams, Lionel Barrymore, and Karl Dane.
It is sourced from the O. Henry story "A Retrieved Reformation", which was turned into the 1910 play Alias Jimmy Valentine by Paul Armstrong. The play toured in travelling production companies making it extremely popular. It was revived on Broadway in 1921.
Released on 15 November 1928, the film was MGM's first all-talking movie. Two previous film versions were made in 1915 and in 1920 at the old Metro Studios with Bert Lytell. This film is now considered a lost film. However a private collector in England is rumored to own a 35mm nitrate print.
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