The read
It runs a compact 1h 6m.
Synopsis
Cooper is a Union Army officer who after being jilted by girlfriend, Virginia Bruce, volunteers on what could be a suicide mission. He volunteers to go behind enemy lines disguised in Confederate gray as a staff officer to Robert E. Lee. He's to ride to a certain plantation which is a local brigade headquarters and deliberately let himself be caught with maps showing false Union troop positions. Of course, the penalty, then as now, is execution.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
2 audience votes
Key crew
- Frank TuttleDirector
- John LeipoldOriginal Music Composer
- W. Franke HarlingOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Gary CooperCapt. James Braydon
- Mary BrianBarbara Calhoun
- Phillips HolmesCapt. Robert Darrington
- James NeillVance Calhoun
- Morgan FarleyLt. Tom Wendell
- Guy OliverGen. Ulysses S. Grant
- John ElliottGen. Robert E. Lee
- E.H. CalvertThe Colonel
- Virginia BruceElizabeth
- Elda VoelkelLucy Cameron
- William Le MaireThe Sentry
- Freeman WoodElizabeth's Lover
Stills
Themes
american civil war