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The Other Half

The Other Half

1919Movie⏱️ 50m
Drama
⭐ 5.3
IMDB Rating
58 votes

Donald Trent, the son of an iron-works owner, loses his belief in class distinction and recognizes his debt to others while fighting in the trenches. At home he tells his father, who abhors sentiment in business, that he wants to ...

Director
King Vidor
Writers
N/A
Stars
Florence Vidor, Charles Meredith, Zasu Pitts
Release Date
August 18, 1919
Language
None
Country
United States
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Florence Vidor
Florence Vidor
as Katherine Boone
Charles Meredith
Charles Meredith
as Donald Trent
Zasu Pitts
Zasu Pitts
as Jennie Jones - The Jazz Kid
David Butler
David Butler
as Cpl. Jimmy
Alfred Allen
Alfred Allen
as J. Martin Trent
Frances Raymond
Frances Raymond
as Mrs. Boone
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Hugh Saxon
as James Bradley
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
as Caleb Fairman
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Arthur Redden
as The Star Reporter
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Ruth Feldman
as Woman on Street

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Production
Brentwood Film Corporation

🏷️ Keywords

newspapermill workersociallabor strikeemployer employee relationship

🎯 Categories

Drama

⭐ Featured Review

Nor Lose the Common Touch
by boblipton β€’ 2018-09-23
6/10

"Charles Meredith comes back from the war an officer. He turns down his father's offer as a executive in his steel plant. He worked his way up in the army on his abilities, and he'll do the same in civilian life. So he takes a manual job in the plant and makes friends while his father works himself to death. After that, he takes over, and runs things exactly by the book... his father's book of "no sentimentality". This doesn't please Florence Vidor, who has turned activist and whom he asks to marry; nor David Butler, who is blinded when Meredith refuses to make im..."

πŸ’‘ Did You Know?

A print exist in the EYE Archive in Netherlands.

πŸ“– Synopsis

Donald Trent, the son of an iron-works owner, loses his belief in class distinction and recognizes his debt to others while fighting in the trenches. At home he tells his father, who abhors sentiment in business, that he wants to ...