The Valiant (play)

Running with success in vaudeville (with Bert Lytell),[3][4] it was made into a film of the same name in 1929 starring Paul Muni,[5] and as The Man Who Wouldn't Talk in 1940.

[6][7][8] Referred to on the script (their name in the play) The play tells the story of James Dyke, a confessed murderer who has been sentenced to die and now awaits his fate on death row at a prison in Wethersfield, Connecticut.

The prison's warden and chaplain have nearly given up hope of discovering his true identity until the night of Dyke's execution when a strange young woman arrives requesting to see him.

However, the woman leaves thinking that James is not her brother, but after she walks out, he recites lines from both Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar.

We are left with the impression that he is indeed her brother and he did not want to reveal his true identity so that his mother would think that her son died nobly in the war.