
When her traveling theatrical group goes broke, Poppy, an actress in the troupe, finds herself stranded in Singapore. She's reduced to working in a bar in the seedy part of town as a "hostess", where she meets a down-on-his-luck Englishman.


The cinematic landscape of 1925 was often defined by its ability to transmute geographical exoticism into profound psychological interiority. The Half-Way Girl, directed with a k...
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E. Lloyd Sheldon, Joseph F. Poland, Earle Snell
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