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
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
Elda Voelkel
Lucy Cameron
William Le Maire
The Sentry
Freeman Wood
Elizabeth's Lover
Lalo Encinas
Gen. Grant's Secretary
Clinton Rosemond
The Butler
Crew
Frank Tuttle
Director
Edward E. Paramore Jr.
Scenario Writer
Agnes Brand Leahy
Adaptation
Keene Thompson
Story
Doris Drought
Editor
Harry Fischbeck
Director of Photography
Hector Turnbull
Producer
Edith Head
Costume Design
Jack A. Goodrich
Sound
John Leipold
Original Music Composer
W. Franke Harling
Original Music Composer
Jesse L. Lasky
Presenter
Adolph Zukor
Presenter