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  1. Heroes for Sale: Directed by William A. Wellman. With Richard Barthelmess, Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Gordon Westcott. A veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world.

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    • Drama, Romance, War
    • William A. Wellman
    • 1933-06-17
  2. Heroes for Sale (1933) is an American pre-Code drama film directed by William Wellman, starring Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, and Loretta Young, and released by Warner Bros. and First National Pictures.

  3. Heroes for Sale. World War I hero Tom Holmes (Richard Barthelmess) finds life back in Depression-era America uncharacteristically hard. Tom cannot find work, and after being wounded in...

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    • Richard Barthelmess
    • William A. Wellman
    • Drama
  4. www.bfi.org.uk › film › 122d7ee0-b2ec-54ac-8fd2Heroes for Sale (1933) | BFI

    Heroes for Sale (1933) 1933 USA. Directed by. William A. Wellman. Produced by. Hal B. Wallis. Written by. Robert Lord, Wilson Mizner. Featuring.

  5. In American pop culture, eruptions of social unrest, so inexplicably AWOL today, sizzled off movie screens in the 1930s. Heroes for Sale (1933), filmed with raw, gritty immediacy by the no-nonsense William Wellman, covers all the Depression-era bases. Perhaps even a few too many.

    • William A. Wellman
    • Richard Barthelmess
  6. Overview. Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings.

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  8. Heroes for Sale is a darkly honest depiction of a shell shocked 1920s America slowly becoming Greatly Depressed. The great war is a modern memory, the Armistice has been signed and Tom Holmes (Richard Barthelmess) is sent home in a post-war exchange of prisoners.

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