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The Cat's-Paw (1934)

The Cat's-Paw poster
Directed by
Sam Taylor
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 41m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 20 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A naive young man from a small town gets involved in big city politics. He becomes a candidate for mayor as a joke but takes the campaign seriously.

lightheartedwhimsicalfast-pacedplayfulsillysatiricalcheerful

What happens

The Cat's-Paw is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Sam Taylor and starring Harold Lloyd, Una Merkel and George Barbier. It was Lloyd's seventh and final collaboration with Taylor and the fourth of his seven starring roles in sound. It was distributed by Fox Film. The Cat’s Paw, a novel by Clarence Budington Kelland, had appeared in the Saturday Evening Post from August 26-September 30, 1933, when Lloyd read it, and decided to buy the rights to it for $25,000. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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