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Half a Hero
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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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Cast
Clara Kimball Young
Mabel Kemp
Maurice Costello
Joe Godfrey
Charles Eldridge
Mabel's Father
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