Heroes for Sale
- Drama
6/17/1933
72
NR
What good are medals on tortured breasts?
World War I veteran Tom Holmes is marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds. Over the years, he comes to experience both the pain of misfortune and a love for other human beings.
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- Writers:
- Budget:
- $290,000
- inventor
- capitalism
- war veteran
- world war i
- drug addiction
- street riots
- great depression
- anti-communism
- automation
- morphine
- unrequited love
- poverty
- laundry
- presumed dead
- labor organizer
- pre-code
- bank clerk
- workers union
- vagrancy
- 1920s
- soup kitchen
- 1910s
- 1930s
- red squad
- run out of town
- communist movement
- hunger riots
- innocent man imprisoned
- ww1 veteran
Cast
Richard BarthelmessTom Holmes
Aline MacMahonMary Dennis- Loretta YoungRuth Loring
- Gordon WestcottRoger Winston
- Robert BarratMax Brinker
- Berton ChurchillMr. Winston
- Grant MitchellGeorge Gibson
- Charley GrapewinPa Dennis
- Robert McWadeDr. Briggs
- G. Pat CollinsLeader of Agitators
- James MurrayBlind Soldier
- Edwin MaxwellLaundry Company President
- Margaret SeddonJeanette Holmes
- Arthur VintonCaptain Joyce
- Robert Elliott'Red' Squad Policeman #1
- John MarstonThe Judge (voice)