Only the Brave

Only the Brave

1930 · 66 min · ★ 7.0 · War, Romance

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 be caught with maps showing false Union troop positions. Of course, the penalty, then as now, is execution.

Directed by Frank Tuttle · Written by Keene Thompson

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Gary Cooper Capt. James Braydon
Mary Brian Barbara Calhoun
Phillips Holmes Capt. Robert Darrington
James Neill Vance Calhoun
Morgan Farley Lt. Tom Wendell
Guy Oliver Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
John Elliott Gen. Robert E. Lee
E.H. Calvert The Colonel
Virginia Bruce Elizabeth
Elda Voelkel Lucy Cameron
William Le Maire The Sentry
Freeman Wood Elizabeth's Lover

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