Heroes for Sale

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Actors: Robert Barrat , Charley Grapewin , Berton Churchill , Loretta Young , Grant Mitchell , Edwin Maxwell , Richard Barthelmess , James Murray , Robert Elliott , Robert McWade , G. Pat Collins , Margaret Seddon , Gordon Westcott , Arthur Vinton , Aline MacMahon

Director: William A. Wellman

IMDB Rate: 8 out of 10 (787 votes)

Plot Summary:After cunningly disguising a terrific Delmar Daves collection under the title Warner Romance Classics, those crafty folks at Warner Home Video have slipped out a highly cinephilic selection of early William Wellman films under the title Forbidden Hollywood, Volume 3. The highlight of the batch is the 1931 Other Mens Women, a drama from 1931 that allows Wellman, an early master of the bromance, to recreate the love triangle of Wings against a railroading background his two classic social realist studies of 1933, Wild Boys of the Road and Heroes for Sale, are not far behind. For me, the minor films in the bunch are the female centered ones, The Purchase Price with Barbara Stanwyck (1932), Frisco Jenny with Ruth Chatterton (1932) and Midnight Mary with Loretta Young (1933) Wellman usually got better results by feminizing his macho heroes (is there any other director who got John Wayne to cry on screen?) than by putting pants on his ladies (Louise Brooks in Beggars of Life, Dorothy Coonan in Wild Boys). Details here in the New York Times.