Young Jim takes over from his father, political boss Jim Gordon Sr. As ruthless and unfeeling as his dad, Young Jim blocks the efforts by a crusading newspaper to bring about reforms in the city's tenement district. But he comes to regret his intransigence when his father is ruined financially.
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Lionel Barrymore as Jim Gordon
Marguerite Skirvin as Joan Madison
Franklyn Hanna as Jim Gordon, Sr.
Edgar L. Davenport as Henry Madison
John Smiley as Benjamin Waters
Paul Lawrence as Sidney Benson
James C. Malaidy as Alec (the delegate)
Howard Truesdale as Myles McColl
George Stevens as Jerome Hendricks
Frank A. Lyons as Frank Wagner
Myra Brooks as Liza Poke
United States 28 August 1916
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