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Only the Brave (1930) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1930 · 66 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Frank Tuttle
- Starring
- Mary Brian, Gary Cooper, Virginia Bruce, Morgan Farley, Guy Oliver, James Neill
Union officer Cooper, spurned by his fiancée Virginia Bruce, volunteers for a perilous assignment. Disguised in Confederate gray as a staff aide to Robert E. Lee, he rides to a plantation used as a brigade headquarters, deliberately exposing himself to capture with false maps showing bogus Union troop positions. The inevitable punishment is execution.
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