Heroes for Sale

"What good are medals on tortured breasts?"

Jun 17 1933 Approved 1h 16m
Drama, War

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.

Plot

The saga of Tom Holmes - a man of principles - from the Great War to the Great Depression. Will he ever get a break? His war heroics earn fame and a medal for someone else, and his wounds result in a morphine addiction that costs him a job, his reputation in his home town, and months in a clinic. He goes to Chicago, where he's enterprising and dedicated to his work and his fellow workers, but an invention he champions results in the opposite of his intentions, leading to loss of life and an unjust imprisonment. After release, during the Depression, he must face local "red squads" and vigilante groups jousting out jobless men. Will anyone see his true heroic character?

Written by

Robert Lord, Wilson Mizner

Directed by

William A. Wellman

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

First National Pictures

Languages

Italiano, English, Deutsch

Awards

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Average Rating
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