The Valiant (1929)

Directors

William K. Howard

Cast

Paul Muni, Marguerite Churchill, Edith Yorke, DeWitt Jennings, Richard Carlyle, Henry Kolker

The story

thumb|The Valiant (1929) Surrender of the condemned man The credits (accompanied by organ music endemic to silent films), segue into a title card: "A city street-----where laughter and tragedy rub elbows." A crowded block lined with tenement buildings, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, comes into view, followed by a look into the hallway of one of those buildings, then a shot is heard, a door to one of the apartments opens and a man holding a gun backs out, closes the door, puts the gun in his pocket, then walks slowly down flights of stairs and into the busy street. While he passes along sidewalks teeming with human activity, an Irish…

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