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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Gary CooperCapt. James Braydon
Mary BrianBarbara Calhoun
Phillips HolmesCapt. Robert Darrington
James NeillVance Calhoun
Morgan FarleyLt. Tom Wendell
Guy OliverGen. Ulysses S. Grant
John ElliottGen. Robert E. Lee
E.H. CalvertThe Colonel
Virginia BruceElizabeth
Freeman WoodElizabeth's LoverExplore the crew
- Director
- Frank Tuttle
- Producer
- Hector Turnbull
- Editor
- Doris Drought
- Director of Photography
- Harry Fischbeck
- Original Music Composer
- John Leipold
- Original Music Composer
- W. Franke Harling