'If Only' Jim

'If Only' Jim

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.

NR 1920 · 50 min · ★ 8.0 · Western

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.

Directed by Jacques Jaccard

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