Jim - as a Boy
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.
Elijah (uncredited)
Rica família de uma cidadezinha do sul dos Estados Unidos vê sua supremacia social pouco a pouco comprometida pela industrialização. Seu jovem e mimado herdeiro se coloca entre a mãe viúva e o homem que ela sempre amou.
Donnie - Catherine's Boy, Age 9
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Albert Boylan Jr., as a boy
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.