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     The Cat’s-Paw
1934  NR  COMEDY  1h 42min
CAST— Harold Lloyd, Una Merkel, George Barbier, Alan Dinehart, Grace Bradley, Nat Pendleton
MUSIC— Harry Akst, Roy Turk, Alfred Newman  DIRECTOR— Sam Taylor  BASED ON— The Cat’s Paw (novel), by Clarence Budington Kelland

     The mayoral race is on in this political comedy starring silent film great, Harold Lloyd. Lloyd plays the son of a white missionary living in China who returns to the States in search of a suitable wife. In his hometown he inadvertently convinces the town’s crooked law-makers that he would be the perfect mayoral candidate to lose in the next election; the more losers in the next election, the longer they can keep their current slacker mayor. But they forgot to form a backup plan. Lloyd wins the election and cleans up the town, much to the shock of everyone involved. Different from other Lloyd features in that he plays the calm and collected gentleman (while still maintaining the funny) instead of the put-upon everyman. Still entertaining with a fine finale. And who could forget the words of wisdom from Master Ling Po?
OUR RATING— ** ½