'If Only' Jim (1920)
Here's a wide open Western picture that will make you giggle and gasp- it's the actionful story of an easy going bachelor-father who had to fight a whole town to prove his right to love.
Gold miner Jim Golden is in love with Miss Dot, the local postmistress, but he has a reputation for being somewhat lazy and shiftless. One day he finds a baby that had been abandoned by local Indians, adopts it, and begins to work his claim again. Parky, a local thief and swindler, finds out that Jim has finally struck gold, and schemes to trick Jim out of his claim and kidnap Miss Dot while he's at it.
- Date of release
- 1920-07-01
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Western
- Director
- Jacques Jaccard
Casting
- Harry Carey — Jim Golden
- Carol Holloway — Miss Dot Dennihan
- Ruth Royce — Miss Richards
- Duke R. Lee — Keno
- Roy Coulson — Henry
- Charles Brinley — Parky
- George Bunny — Uncle Johnny
- Joseph Hazelton — Bill Bones
- Minnie Devereaux — Squaw
- Thomas Smith — Kid
Interesting facts
'If Only' Jim is a 1921 American silent Western film directed by Jacques Jaccard and starring Harry Carey. The film is based on Philip Verrill Mighel's 1904 novel Bruvver Jim's Baby. It is not known whether the film currently survives, and it may be a lost film.
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