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Half a Hero

1912-06-07 · 10 min · ★ 9.0

Comedy

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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Directors
James Young
Production companies
Vitagraph Company of America
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released

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Clara Kimball YoungClara Kimball YoungMabel Kemp
Maurice CostelloMaurice CostelloJoe Godfrey
Charles EldridgeCharles EldridgeMabel's Father

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