Heroes for Sale
What good are medals on tortured breasts?
1933 | 72m | English
Popularity: 0.4 (history)
| Director: | William A. Wellman |
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| Writer: | Wilson Mizner, Robert Lord |
| Staring: |
| Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings. | |
| Release Date: | Jun 17, 1933 |
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| Director: | William A. Wellman |
| Writer: | Wilson Mizner, Robert Lord |
| Genres: | Drama |
| Keywords | inventor, drug addiction, world war i, street riots, great depression, unrequited love, war hero, laundry, pre-code, bank clerk, 1920s, soup kitchen, 1910s, 1930s, red squad |
| Production Companies | First National Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $290,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Richard Barthelmess | Tom Holmes |
| Aline MacMahon | Mary Dennis |
| Loretta Young | Ruth Loring |
| Gordon Westcott | Roger Winston |
| Robert Barrat | Max Brinker |
| Berton Churchill | Mr. Winston |
| Grant Mitchell | George Gibson |
| Charley Grapewin | Pa Dennis |
| Robert McWade | Dr. Briggs |
| G. Pat Collins | Leader of Agitators |
| James Murray | Blind Soldier |
| Edwin Maxwell | Laundry Company President |
| Margaret Seddon | Jeanette Holmes |
| Arthur Vinton | Captain Joyce |
| Robert Elliott | 'Red' Squad Policeman #1 |
| John Marston | The Judge (voice) |
| Ward Bond | Red (uncredited) |
| Ronnie Cosby | Young Bill Holmes (uncredited) |
| Douglass Dumbrille | Chief Engineer Jim (uncredited) |
| John "Skins" Miller | Angry Laundry Worker (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Wilson Mizner | Screenplay |
| William A. Wellman | Director |
| Robert Lord | Screenplay |
| James Van Trees | Director of Photography |
| Bernhard Kaun | Original Music Composer |
| Jack Okey | Art Direction |
| Howard Bretherton | Editor |
| Orry-Kelly | Costume Design |
| Name | Title |
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| Hal B. Wallis | Producer |
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