Only the Brave

Overview

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

Top 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

Virginia Bruce

Elizabeth

E

Elda Voelkel

Lucy Cameron

W

William Le Maire

The Sentry

Freeman Wood

Elizabeth's Lover

L

Lalo Encinas

Gen. Grant's Secretary

Clinton Rosemond

The Butler

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