Richard Barthelmess
Thomas "Tom" Holmes
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Heroes for Sale (1933) is an American pre-Code drama film directed by William Wellman, starring Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, and Loretta Young, and released by Warner Bros. and First National Pictures.
Heroes for Sale: Directed by William A. Wellman. With Richard Barthelmess, Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Gordon Westcott. A veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world.
- (2.5K)
- Drama, Romance, War
- William A. Wellman
- 1933-06-17
Heroes for Sale (1933), filmed with raw, gritty immediacy by the no-nonsense William Wellman, covers all the Depression-era bases. Perhaps even a few too many. It's crammed with plot, and the joinery lurches from casual to non-existent.
- William A. Wellman
- Richard Barthelmess
Heroes for Sale is a darkly honest depiction of a shell shocked 1920s America slowly becoming Greatly Depressed. The great war is a modern memory, the Armistice has been signed and Tom Holmes (Richard Barthelmess) is sent home in a post-war exchange of prisoners.
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- First National Pictures
- William A. Wellman
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.
Overview. 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 (1933) Remarkable for its frank handling of controversial subjects, this Depression-era drama depicts the struggle of a WWI veteran, who after taking shrapnel in the spine, becomes addicted to morphine.
