Heroes for Sale
Heroes for Sale is a 1933 American pre-Code tragedy film directed by William A. Wellman, starring Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, and Loretta Young, and released by Warner Bros. Pictures through its subsidary First National Pictures. The 76-minute original is considered lost, but a 71-minute version is available from Turner Entertainment Co.
Plot
During World War I, working class Tom Holmes and his wealthy friend and superior officer Roger Winston are sent to capture a German soldier, but Roger loses his nerve. Tom completes their objective alone, but is then hit by shrapnel and apparently killed, leaving it to Roger to return the captive to the American lines. Roger's feeble efforts to refuse credit are dismissed as modesty, and he is rewarded with a Distinguished Service Cross. Meanwhile, Tom is found alive by German soldiers and taken to a hospital. His life is saved, but he is left in severe pain, for which he is given morphine pills.
More details
| author | Robert Lord |
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| director | William A. Wellman |
| editor | Howard Bretherton |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | arrest bank account distinguished service cross end expect force former employee german soldier getting rich great depression heart attack help kill machine machine shop married morphine one night railroad trestle red squad stock market crash struggle trestle bridge unemployed wall street crash of 1929 wander working class world war i |
| musicBy | Bernhard Kaun |
| producer | Hal B. Wallis |
| productionCompany | First National Pictures |
| publisher | Warner Bros. Pictures |