Heroes for Sale

Heroes for Sale

72 mins | Drama | June 17, 1933

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.

Heroes for Sale

72 mins | Drama | June 17, 1933

Heroes for Sale
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.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers First National Pictures
Original title Heroes for Sale
Directors William A. Wellman
Writers Wilson Mizner, Robert Lord

Cast

Richard Barthelmess

as Tom Holmes

Aline MacMahon

as Mary Dennis

Loretta Young

as Ruth Loring

Gordon Westcott

as Roger Winston

Robert Barrat

as Max Brinker

Berton Churchill

as Mr. Winston

Grant Mitchell

as George Gibson

Charley Grapewin

as Pa Dennis

Robert McWade

as Dr. Briggs

G. Pat Collins

as Leader of Agitators

James Murray

as Blind Soldier

Edwin Maxwell

as Laundry Company President

Margaret Seddon

as Jeanette Holmes

Arthur Vinton

as Captain Joyce

Robert Elliott

as 'Red' Squad Policeman #1

John Marston

as The Judge (voice)

Ward Bond

as Red (uncredited)

Ronnie Cosby

as Young Bill Holmes (uncredited)

Douglass Dumbrille

as Chief Engineer Jim (uncredited)

John "Skins" Miller

as Angry Laundry Worker (uncredited)