

War · Romance
Overview
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.
Top Cast


Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper
Capt. James Braydon
Gary Cooper
Capt. James Braydon


Mary Brian
Mary Brian
Barbara Calhoun
Mary Brian
Barbara Calhoun


Phillips Holmes
Phillips Holmes
Capt. Robert Darrington
Phillips Holmes
Capt. Robert Darrington


James Neill
James Neill
Vance Calhoun
James Neill
Vance Calhoun


Morgan Farley
Morgan Farley
Lt. Tom Wendell
Morgan Farley
Lt. Tom Wendell


Guy Oliver
Guy Oliver
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
Guy Oliver
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant


John Elliott
John Elliott
Gen. Robert E. Lee
John Elliott
Gen. Robert E. Lee


E.H. Calvert
E.H. Calvert
The Colonel
E.H. Calvert
The Colonel


Virginia Bruce
Virginia Bruce
Elizabeth
Virginia Bruce
Elizabeth
Elda Voelkel
Elda Voelkel
Lucy Cameron
Elda Voelkel
Lucy Cameron
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