Heroes for Sale
NR
7.4
1933
1 hr 12 min
Drama
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.
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- Cast：
- Richard Barthelmess , Aline MacMahon , Loretta Young , Gordon Westcott , Robert Barrat , Berton Churchill , Grant Mitchell
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Reviews
You won't be disappointed!
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Brilliant and touching
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One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
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The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
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