Half a Hero "Allied Artists" he was a mainstay of

he was a mainstay of Western B-films and serials

calls off their romance

Thomas "Mac" McAllister (Warren Brown)

Cathy joins the WRENS

Half a Hero "Allied Artists" he was a mainstay ofAudiences always roared with delight when Red Skelton went one on one with post war life in The Yellow Cab Man, The Fuller Brush Man and other films. In Half a Hero, the legendary comic took on a slice of 20th century Americana that still resonates today: the suburbs. Red plays Ben Dobson, a magazine writer whose boss approves of Ben because he lives in a cramped Manhattan apartment instead of "the slums of tomorrow": the 'burbs. So, of course, when