Heroes for Sale
1933 · 72 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 2,577 VOTES · DIR. William A. Wellman
Overview
Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings.
Dialogue Timeline — 960 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:01 These three shell holes are 1 o feet apart.
00:05:35 This is too big to knock down.
00:09:15 Sure.
00:12:14 I hear he captured a whole machine-gun nest single-handed.
00:15:43 You're working in a bank, ain't you?
00:19:07 What's going on?
00:23:27 - You ever see an angel? No.
00:25:47 One nice Sunday afternoon, the police came along and took him.
00:28:12 - All the shades around here wanna stay up. - So do I.
00:30:16 You know, I think he's gonna like it here.
00:32:38 Why, I don't know.
00:34:41 Because he can change your sweat into money.
00:38:11 I've got it, the greatest thing in the world.
00:39:58 Max, you're daffy. If everybody felt like that...
00:42:04 Well, what has Ruth got to do with it? Where is our check?
00:45:23 Listen to me.
00:47:55 All you'll do is get these people arrested.
00:52:30 I want you to stay here.
00:55:27 Oh, he's fine. You'd hardly know him. He's a big boy now.
00:57:26 No, I can't. I have a dinner engagement at the University Club.
01:00:08 Oh.
01:02:15 Positively an insult.
01:05:57 Go on.
01:08:55 That's not optimism, just common horse sense.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed960
Dialogue density13.3 lines / min
First line00:01:01
Final line01:08:55
Production Record
DirectorWilliam A. Wellman
LanguageEnglish
Budget$290,000
IMDb votes2,577