Cinema: The New Pictures May 27, 1929

The Valiant (Fox). Sentimentality laid many traps for the murderer who wanted to die without letting people know his real name. There might have been heroics in the courtroom, and later, when his mother saw his picture in the paper and sent his sister to find out if this was her boy, everything might have collapsed in glycerine tears; the murder, perhaps, might have been explained as something necessary, even honorable. But, somehow, Director William K. Howard and Actor Paul Muni, formerly known as Muni Weisenfreund, overcame their difficulties by wise elimination of...

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