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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936)

Directed by Wesley Ruggles · 110 min · Drama

6.2 TOPICAL score · #6,034 of 6,776 films

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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.

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936, directed by Wesley Ruggles) has a TOPICAL score of 6.2 - ranked 6,034 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on awards and historical impact, and lowest on cast. It won 0 awards from 1 nomination. Audiences: TMDB 6.7/10 (8 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 12 languages.

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Awards62
Historical impact12
Lasting engagement6
Cast2
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Starring: Gladys George (actor #1,244), Arline Judge, John Howard (actor #1,631), Dudley Digges (actor #1,951)

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