Overview
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.
Cast
- 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