3.56-The Valiant with Matthew Carlson

Send us Fan MailToday'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 FloreyUnaccustomed As We Are directed by Lewis R. Foster and Hal RoachThe Blue Angel directed by Josef von SternbergThe Way of All Flesh directed by Victor Fleming (lost film)Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood directed by Quentin TarantinoThere Will Be Blood directed by Paul Thomas AndersonThe Last Command directed by Josef von SternbergInherit the Wind directed by Stanley KramerJudgment at Nuremberg directed by Stanley KramerScarface directed by Howard Hawks"The Only Girl in the Orchestra" directed by Molly O'BrienThe 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 LumièreThe Birth of a Nation directed by D. W. GriffithIn Old Arizona directed by Irving Cummings and Raoul WalshThe Passion of Joan of Arc directed by Carl Th. DreyerPickpocket directed by Robert BressonOther referenced topics:The Valiant (play) by Holworthy Hall and Robert MiddlemassSupport the show