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Today's episode is my conversation about the 1929 film The Valiant. I'm joined by Matthew Carlson from the "What Am I Making" newsletter and we talk about an unexpected prison jazz band, how the limitations of the film technology of the time impacted how stories were told on film, and how a very short play was adapted into a substantially longer film for this story.

You can watch The Valiant on YouTube and be sure to check out Matthew's newsletter.

Other films mentioned in this episode include:

• The Cocoanuts directed by Joseph Santley and Robert Florey
• Unaccustomed As We Are directed by Lewis R. Foster and Hal Roach
• The Blue Angel directed by Josef von Sternberg
• The Way of All Flesh directed by Victor Fleming (lost film)
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood directed by Quentin Tarantino
• There Will Be Blood directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
• The Last Command directed by Josef von Sternberg
• Inherit the Wind directed by Stanley Kramer
• Judgment at Nuremberg directed by Stanley Kramer
• Scarface directed by Howard Hawks
• "The Only Girl in the Orchestra" directed by Molly O'Brien
• The Man Who Wouldn't Talk directed by David Burton
• "The Arrival of a Train" directed by Auguste and Louis Lumière
• "Workers Leaving The Lumiere Factory" directed by Auguste and Louis Lumière
• The Birth of a Nation directed by D. W. Griffith
• In Old Arizona directed by Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh
• The Passion of Joan of Arc directed by Carl Th. Dreyer
• Pickpocket directed by Robert Bresson

Other referenced topics:

• The Valiant (play) by Holworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass

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