Talkie Drama

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 678, 1 June 1929, Page 9 (Supplement)

Talkie Drama

REGENT’S NEW PICTURE “Alias Jimmy Valentine” Showing A l AR F-TALIvING picture, superior, even, to the “Bellamy z~ Trial, ’is “Alias Jimmy Valentine,” which opened at the Regent this afternoon. This film of mystery and adventure under a city’s placid surface is strongly cast and excellently produced.

In "Alias Jimmy Valentine/’ William Haines has the best role of a short but successful career. He acts well, looks well, and talks well.

The supporting cast includes Leila Hyams, Lionel Barrymore, and Karl Dane, while ihe director was Jack Conway, responsible for “While the City Sleeps.”

When the story opens, Jimmy Valentine has won an international reputation as a safe

cracker. For years he, with his pals, Avery and Swede, has laughed at the police force of every big city in the country. Doyle, a detective, is determined to get Valentine. When an express office is robbed, and a bomb exploded in t satisfied that Valentir robbery.

the safe, Doyle is ne committed the

Swede and Avery go to a small town to lay low until the robbery blows over. Valentine joins them there, and finds they have made plans to rob the bank. Pie meets Rose, a beautiful girl, and is greatly impressed with the sweetness of her life, with her

.father, and with her young brother | and sister. | They rob the bank, but as Jimmy I is leaving the town he discovers that Rose’s father owns the bank. The banker offers him a job if he will stay. Jimmy puts the money back in the vault, and tells Swede and Avery they are going straight. Swede agrees, but Avery tries to rob a manufacturing plant, and is killed. Jimmy, under the name of Randall, becomes cashier of the bank, when Doyle discovers his whereabouts, and comes to arrest him for the express robbery. Jimmy manages to convince Doyle that he is really Randall instead of Valentine. Just then the young sister becomes locked in the new vault, and Jimmy reveals his professional skill to save her life. Doyle tears up his papers, and Jimmy and Rose are married.