The Valiant

==The Valiant==
1929, directed by William K. Howard
(IMDB Link) TCM Summary: An adaptation of a play by Holworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass, The Valiant stars Muni as a murderer who confesses his crime to the police, willingly accepts his death sentence and even pens a series of newspaper articles while on death row - "The Folly of Youth Crime" - to save others from his fate. Yet he never reveals his true identity to the police or to the world.
*Paul Muni - James Dyke
*Marguerite Churchill - Mary Douglas
*Johnny Mack Brown - Robert Ward (as John Mack Brown)
*DeWitt Jennings - Warden Holt
*Edith Yorke - Mrs. Douglas
*Clifford Dempsey - Police Lieutenant
*Richard Carlyle - Father Daly
*Henry Kolker - Judge
*Sherwood Bailey - Little Boy (uncredited)
*George Chesebro - Liberty Bondsman (uncredited)
*Sidney D'Albrook - Prison Guard (uncredited)
*Dannie Mac Grant - Little Boy (uncredited)
*Henry Hall - Harold Everett Porter (uncredited)
*Barton Hepburn - Joe Douglas as a Youth (uncredited)
*Robert Homans - Newspaper Printer (uncredited)
*Lillian Lawrence - Spinster on Train (uncredited)
*Billy O'Brien - Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
*Helen Parrish - Little Child on Train (uncredited)
*George C. Pearce - Dr. Edmondson (uncredited)
*Bob Perry - Bill the Guard (uncredited)
*Buster Slaven - Little Boy (uncredited)
*Don Terry - Policeman (uncredited)
*Delmar Watson - Little Boy Who Falls Down (uncredited)
*Tom Wilson - Tom the Printer (uncredited)
Category:Murder
Category:Police
Category:1929