Half a Hero

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Clara Kimball Young
Clara Kimball Young

Mabel Kemp

Maurice Costello
Maurice Costello

Joe Godfrey

Charles Eldridge
Charles Eldridge

Mabel's Father

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    A little country village comedy in which Mr. Costello plays a young grocer's clerk. This clerk and the daughter (Clara Kimball Young) of a G.A.R. fire-eater (Mr. Eldridge) are in love, much to the old man's disgust. He wants his daughter to marry a brave man, a soldier. AN unexpected denouement makes the clerk seem to be a hero.

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    1912-06-07

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    Comedy

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    presumed lost

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