The Awakening of Jim Burke

  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 57 min
  • Premiere: 1935. May 18.

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?

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Jack Holt

Jim Burke

Florence Rice

Tess Hardie

Jimmy Butler

Jimmy Burke

Wyrley Birch

Lem Hardie

George McKay

Fly Speck Sam

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