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History. The story describes the events which lead up to the reformation of an ex-convict. In 1910, dramatist Paul Armstrong adapted the story into a highly successful Broadway play under the title Alias Jimmy Valentine which ran 155 performances at Wallack's Theatre in New York.
The protagonist of “A Retrieved Reformation,” Jimmy is a safecracker and thief living in the American Midwest in the early 1900s. When first introduced, the well-connected Jimmy is being released from prison after serving just ten months of a four-year sentence for robbery.
Jimmy Valentine is the alias of an infamous safe cracker who has just been sentenced to prison for four years for his crimes. He does not stay locked up for long, though, as he is released after ten months. When he is released, he packs his state of the art, custom robbery tools and commits several more robberies. Ben Price, the ...
Jimmy Valentine leaves prison and comes to Elmore, Arkansas, to rob a bank. Instead, he falls in love with the banker's daughter, runs a flourishing shoe store, and becomes a pillar in his new...
Jimmy Valentine is a professional thief, an expert safe-breaker no less. He's just been released from prison for this very crime, although he claims to the warden that he was innocent all...
A guard came to the prison shoe-shop, where Jimmy Valentine was assiduously stitching uppers, and escorted him to the front office. There the warden handed Jimmy his pardon, which had been signed that morning by the governor. Jimmy took it in a tired kind of way. He had served nearly ten months of a four year sentence. He had expected to stay ...
Jimmy Valentine. Jimmy Valentine may refer to: Alias Jimmy Valentine, a 1910 play by Paul Armstrong, based on the O. Henry short story, "A Retrieved Reformation". Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915 film), a 1915 American silent crime film directed by Maurice Tourneur, based on the play.
