Only the Brave

Only the Brave

66 mins | Romance, War | March 7, 1930

Cooper is a Union Army officer who after being jilted by girlfriend, Virginia Bruce, volunteers on what could be a suicide mission. He volunteers to go behind enemy lines disguised in Confederate gray as a staff officer to Robert E. Lee. He's to ride to a certain plantation which is a local brigade headquarters and deliberately let himself by caught with maps showing false Union troop dispositions. Of course the penalty then as now is execution.

Only the Brave

66 mins | Romance, War | March 7, 1930

Only the Brave
Cooper is a Union Army officer who after being jilted by girlfriend, Virginia Bruce, volunteers on what could be a suicide mission. He volunteers to go behind enemy lines disguised in Confederate gray as a staff officer to Robert E. Lee. He's to ride to a certain plantation which is a local brigade headquarters and deliberately let himself by caught with maps showing false Union troop dispositions. Of course the penalty then as now is execution.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Paramount
Original title Only the Brave
Directors Frank Tuttle
Writers Agnes Brand Leahy, Keene Thompson, Edward E. Paramore Jr.

Cast

Gary Cooper

as Capt. James Braydon

Mary Brian

as Barbara Calhoun

Phillips Holmes

as Capt. Robert Darrington

James Neill

as Vance Calhoun