Only the Brave (1930)

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.

Directed by: Frank Tuttle

Starring: Gary Cooper, Mary Brian, Phillips Holmes, James Neill, Morgan Farley, Guy Oliver

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