Only the Brave

Only the Brave — Plot

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.

• Release date
• March 7, 1930
• Runtime
• 66 min
• Genres
• War, Romance
• Director
• Frank Tuttle

Only the Brave — Cast

Gary Cooper Capt. James Braydon Mary Brian Barbara Calhoun Phillips Holmes Capt. Robert Darrington James Neill Vance Calhoun Morgan Farley Lt. Tom Wendell Guy Oliver Gen. Ulysses S. Grant John Elliott Gen. Robert E. Lee E.H. Calvert The Colonel