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
Later in 1933, he followed Heroes for Sale with Wild Boys of the Road, another film steeped in the realities of the Depression, again ending with a voice of hope (Barrat, the buffoon caricature of communism in Heroes for Sale, this time as a judge who gives four wayward boys another chance). This may have been rooted in Wellman's admiring view ...
- William A. Wellman
- Richard Barthelmess
Heroes for Sale 1933 1h 13m Drama List 75% Tomatometer 8 Reviews 69% Audience Score 100+ Ratings World War I hero Tom Holmes (Richard Barthelmess) finds life back in Depression-era America ...
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- Richard Barthelmess
- William A. Wellman
- Drama
[Favorites of 1930s] One of seven films William “Wild Bill” Wellman socked out in 1933 alone (including an uncredited effort), Heroes for Sale nimbly trots through a number of generic and thematic registers—wherein epigrammatic storylines often correspond to actual sociopolitical or historical events—by employing a cinematic shorthand that's rare even for the swift assembly-line ...
- (1.1K)
- 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. He goes to Chicago, where he's enterprising and ...
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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.
