Heroes for Sale (Warner Bros.) (1933)

PRODUCTION INFORMATION 4 GREAT ACTORS IN “HEROES FOR SALE” CAST OF CHARACTERS SA AACA RICHARD BARTHELMESS, Star of “HEROES FOR SALE” the First National picture now Theatre with Robert Barrai, Loretta Young and Aline MacMahon in a scene from the great drama. Lieutenant Roger Winston, with the American army in France, is assigned to capture a machine gun nest. Among the men he takes with him is Tom Holmes, a private, who comes from the same town in America. Roger turns yellow and hides in a shell hole, while Tom carries on and captures a prisoner. On the way back over no man’s land, he is struck by -a shell and ealls to Roger to take the prisoner back to the American lines, elleving that ‘he himself is dying. Roger is promoted and decorated for bravery. “Fhe war over, Roger returns home a hero. Tom, who had been picked up by the Germans, half dead, is finally discharged from a prison camp and also returns home, although he is suffering from shock, the only relief for which is morphine. Roger begs him not to betray him. Tom consents and Roger gives him a place in his father’s bank. Tom is using more and more of the a itittie-moerey, marry Cut No.10 Cut 45c Mati15ec THE STORY er’s father discharges him. He is sent to a sanitarium where he from the drug habit. His mother had committed suicide because of the dis recovers grace, so Tom goes to Chicago to look for a job. He meets Mary, who with her father, runs a sort of respectable flop house. He also meets Ruth, with whom he is immediately infatuated. Through her he gets a place in a laundry where she works. They save and have 4 child. Max, an anarchist, works out an invention for a laundry machine which is a money saver. Tom pays for a patent for which he is given a half interest. He stipulates, however, when the machine is put into the laundry, that it will not be used to throw men out of employment. This works out as long as the first owner lives, but when he dies the laundry is sold to a syndicate. They see that the machine can save drug. It shows in his work and Rog| labor and discharge most of the men. LENGTH ...6796 FEET RUNNING TIME...73 MIN. PO ee Richard Barthelmess ha oS ee a ee Loretta Young PE a Aline MacMahon TGOOT So ee ad ee Gordon Westcott NO eo ea Robert Barrat PDs = ae Charles Grapewin AON VAST OWS ea Berton Churchill Weare GWiOn So eG a ee Grant Mitchell Bima: Mane ess aad Gas tee tee James Murray LO00ET 0) AGUGIOES nt. ee SS Geo. Pat Collins LIT LOGS roses Se eco a | Robert MeWade EVER A AMINO an le Edwin Maxwell TUE TT OLS ee ga a Oe ee Margaret Seddon Cag GYRE re ee ee ee Arthur Vinton Ped We are John Marston Chief EN Gino eS a a a ai Doug. Dumbrille PIGHE5T CULO a ee Tammany Young GENER TISONOTS oe rs Hans Furberg The 6tel eae, er ee ee Robert Elliott NG SUGI Yo ae, eee ee a eee Willard Robertson See ee ee eee ee Ward Bond at the Strand Incensed, they attack the laundry. Tom tries to stop them, but a riot results. Ruth, who had followed Tom, fearing he would be injured, is struck by a brick and killed. Police are called and Tom is arrested as the ringleader and sent to prison for five years. Mary takes care of Tom’s boy. When Tom gets out of prison, Max turns over some fifty thousand dollars to him as his share of the proof the nation, He will not touch it, but turns it over to Mary | to feed the unemployed. The police eaade drive him out of town, because they believe him an anarchist, and he becomes a man without a home or job. On the road he meets Roger, also ti , the bank havi failed i SR ee ee | PCH ARD BARTHELMESS and Lotetid Yount in 1 seene from “He ae for Sale,” First National production now at the Strand Theatre. Cut No.18 Out80c Mati0c the general upheaval, after Roger and his father had used Badgered by police on every hand, the two continue their its funds for speculation. wanderings while Mary carries on the OFFICIAL BILLING breadline with the money Tom had donated. First National-Pictures, Inc. & The Vitaphone Corp. 25% presents RICHARD BARTHELMESS 100% in ee “HEROES FOR SALE” 75% THELMESS as TOM with HOLMES, ex soldier Aline MacMahon—Loretta Young 75% b rb Gordon Westcott 60% uffeted by fate at Directed by William A. Wellman 20% every turn, brings to A First National and Vitaphone Picture 40% the screen one of the most intense = performances ever PRODUCTION STAFF seen! The film is “Heroes for Sale’ which graphically ee ee ee ee William A. Wellman Se ee i a Robert Lord and Wilson Mizner PROVOGFGPR YE UY James Van Trees PURE PAVOT Howard Bretherton ACETIC OF ns re ea A Cee ee ee Jack Okey GONE TY A ee Orry-Kelly Vitaphone Orchestra Conducted by ...........0..00006. Leo F. Forbstein Directed by Screen Play by describes the soul searing struggles of thousands of war time heroes, now merely human dere licts. Among the im Piay These Vitaphone Shorts For a Well Balanced Program Pie a la Mode (Two Reel “Broadway Brevities”’ ) portant supporting cast in the picture are Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon and Robert Barrat. and I Like Mountain Music (A “Merry Melodies” Song Cartoon) and The Name’s Familiar (A “Melody Masters’ Band Number) Out No. 6 Cut 80c Mati10c Page Seven