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.
Cast
- Gary Cooper as Capt. James Braydon
- Mary Brian as Barbara Calhoun
- Phillips Holmes as Capt. Robert Darrington
- James Neill as Vance Calhoun
- Morgan Farley as Lt. Tom Wendell
- Guy Oliver as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
- John Elliott as Gen. Robert E. Lee
- E.H. Calvert as The Colonel
- Virginia Bruce as Elizabeth
- Elda Voelkel as Lucy Cameron