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Origins of the Gangster Film

Long before the James Cagney/Edward G. Robinson era, American directors and audiences were finding suspense and thrills in the gangster film. ALIAS JIMMY VALENTINE, lost for 75 years, is a major rediscovery. Hailed at its 1915 release as 'remarkably realistic,' this tale of bank heists and prison life (filmed partly on location at New York's Sing Sing prison) is directed with Maurice Tourneur's typically sophisticated visual style, preserved with its original color tints in the Library of Congress print. Preceding the feature is D. W. Griffith's one-reel THE NARROW ROAD from 1912, about another ex-convict torn between the devotion of a good woman (Mary Pickford) and the lure of his criminal pals. *Black and white with director's original tinting * Approx run time: 82 minutes * Rare silent films with new piano scores * Film notes enclosed.