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Heroes for Sale (1933)

Heroes for Sale (1933)

Drama

What good are medals on tortured breasts?

Release Date: 1933, June 17
Directors: William A. Wellman
Countries: United States of America
Production: First National Pictures
Cast: Douglass Dumbrille, James Murray, Richard Barthelmess, Ward Bond, Robert Elliott, Charley Grapewin, John 'Skins' Miller, Berton Churchill, G. Pat Collins, John Marston, Margaret Seddon, Edwin Maxwell

Overview:

World War I veteran Tom Holmes is marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds. Over the years, he comes to experience both the pain of misfortune and a love for other human beings.

Keywords:

poverty capitalism 1930s automation drug addiction great depression inventor unrequited love 1910s 1920s world war i presumed dead war veteran street riots anti-communism morphine ww1 veteran pre-code bank clerk laundry workers union soup kitchen labor organizer communist movement vagrancy hunger riots innocent man imprisoned run out of town red squad