Movie poster for Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936)

Drama
110 min

"You're going to fall in love with Carrie...a woman without money, reputation or friends, who fought for the happiness of two youngsters in as stirring a fight as you will witness on stage or screen or read about."

Plot Summary

Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.

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DramaWesley RugglesGladys GeorgeArline Judge1936

Director

Wesley Ruggles

Top Cast

Gladys GeorgeArline JudgeJohn HowardDudley DiggesHarry Carey

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