Amateur Daddy (1932)

Jim Gladden a construction site foreman is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers Fred Smith and makes good on Freds deathbed request to go to Scotch Valley and take care of his surviving wife and children When Jim arrives in the small town he is told that there are two Fred Smith families in Scotch Valley the rich Smiths and the poor Smiths Jim assumes that the Smiths he is looking for are the poor ones and is directed to a house where four children live in poverty