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The Cat's-Paw
Everything new but these [eyeglasses]
6.3(20)19341h 42m
Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate with no chance of winning. Their plan backfires as he wins and embarks upon a reform crusade.
- Director
- Sam Taylor
- Writers
- Sam Taylor
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Cast
Harold Lloyd
Ezekiel Cobb
Una Merkel
Petunia Pratt / Cobb
George Barbier
Jake Mayo
Nat Pendleton
Strozzi
Grace Bradley
Dolores Doce
Alan Dinehart
Mayor Ed Morgan
Grant Mitchell
Silk Hot McGee
E. Alyn Warren
Tien Wang (as Fred Warren)
Warren Hymer
'Spike' Slattery
J. Farrell MacDonald
Shigley
James Donlan
Red - the Reporter
Edwin Maxwell
District Attorney Neal
Frank Sheridan
Dan Moriarty - Police Commissioner
Fuzzy Knight
Stuttering Gangster
Vince Barnett
Wilks
Samuel S. Hinds
Rev. Julian Cobb (uncredited)
Nell Craig
Mrs. Cobb (uncredited)
Gertrude Hoffmann
Mrs. Noon - Cobb's Landlady (uncredited)
Alec B. Francis
Rev. Thatcher (uncredited)
Chief John Big Tree
Chinese Guard (uncredited)
Wong Chung
Villager (uncredited)
John George
Gangster (uncredited)
John Ince
Burke (uncredited)
Frank LaRue
Jim (uncredited)
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Crew
Directing
- Sam TaylorDirector
Writing
- Sam TaylorWriter
- Clarence Budington KellandNovel
Camera
- Walter LundinDirector of Photography
Sound
- Alfred NewmanOriginal Music Composer
Lighting
- Bill McLellanGaffer