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The Awakening of Jim Burke (1935)
Directed by Lambert Hillyer
Overview
After his divorced wife dies, Jim Burke takes their son who she had been raising and he hasn’t seen in many years. Jim Burke is a tough, hard-nosed construction boss on engineering projects, and he is looking forward to molding Little Jim into his own image. Jim Burke is more than a little bit dismayed and a whole lot disgusted when Little Jim arrives and it doesn’t take Big Jim long to figure out that Little Jim…ain’t nothing but a sissy. Little Jim is fond of practicing on his violin and reading and studying. What’s a poor father to do?
Length 57 minutes
Actors
Jack Holt | Florence Rice | Jimmy Butler | Kathleen Burke | Robert Middlemass | Ralph Remley | Wyrley Birch | George McKay