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The Valiant is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film released by Fox Film Corporation in the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system on May 19, 1929. It is produced and directed by William K. Howard (his first sound film) and stars Paul Muni (in his film debut), Marguerite Churchill (in her feature film debut), and John Mack Brown .
The Valiant: Directed by William K. Howard. With Paul Muni, Marguerite Churchill, Johnny Mack Brown, DeWitt Jennings. After killing an unknown man for an unknown reason, a mysterious drifter turns himself to the law under a false name, intending to protect his own family's honor.
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- Drama
- William K. Howard
- 1929-05-19
Made during the turbulent transition period between silent cinema and sound film, The Valiant (1929) is most famous today as the film debut of stage actor Paul Muni, who performed in New York's Yiddish theater under the name Muni Weisenfreund and became a star on the Broadway stage, where his talent for elaborate make-up and versatility with ...
- William K. Howard, Gordon Cooper
- Paul Muni
Oct 21, 2018 · After killing an unknown man for an unknown reason, a mysterious drifter turns himself to the law, under a false name intending to protect his own family’s honor. But when the news of his conviction breaks, the drifter’s sister and mother seeks the possibility that the man is her long lost brother.
Paul Muni stands out here as the anonymous young man who walks into a police station and confess to a murder. Adopting a name ("Dyke") from a calendar hung on the wall, he is tried, convicted and sentenced to death.
Out in rural Ohio, an old sick woman sees pictures and stories of this man, whom nobody has been able to identify and is unwilling to identify himself, and wonders if it isn't her son who has left home 15 years before and from whom she has received no word in all this time.
The Valiant is a drama-mystery, though not a whodunit, but a whydiddydoit, or even more: a whoissyanyway. One man shoots another, pleads guilty to the crime, and is sentenced to death for it. He won't reveal his identity, though, and there is no way of finding out who he is.
