Half a Hero

Half a Hero

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Half a Hero

1912

0h 10m

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Comedy

Overview

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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3 members

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Clara Kimball Young

Mabel Kemp

Clara Kimball Young

Acting

Maurice Costello

Joe Godfrey

Maurice Costello

Acting

Charles Eldridge

Mabel's Father

Charles Eldridge

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