Film

Only the Brave

1930 · 1h 6m · War · Romance

IMDb

6.4

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.

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

Lalo Encinas

Gen. Grant's Secretary

Clinton Rosemond

The Butler

• Frank TuttleDirector
• Keene ThompsonStory
• Hector TurnbullProducer
• Harry FischbeckDirector of Photography
• John LeipoldOriginal Music Composer
• W. Franke HarlingOriginal Music Composer
• Doris DroughtEditor

Release date

March 7, 1930

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 6m

Genres

War, Romance

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