The Cat's-Paw
Comedy
Everything new but these [eyeglasses]
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.
1934-08-07
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Cast
Director
Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd as Ezekiel Cobb
Una Merkel as Petunia Pratt / Cobb
George Barbier as Jake Mayo
Nat Pendleton as Strozzi
Grace Bradley as Dolores Doce
Alan Dinehart as Mayor Ed Morgan
Grant Mitchell as Silk Hot McGee
E. Alyn Warren as Tien Wang (as Fred Warren)
Warren Hymer as 'Spike' Slattery
J. Farrell MacDonald as Shigley
James Donlan as Red - the Reporter
Edwin Maxwell as District Attorney Neal
Frank Sheridan as Dan Moriarty - Police Commissioner
Fuzzy Knight as Stuttering Gangster
Vince Barnett as Wilks
Samuel S. Hinds as Rev. Julian Cobb (uncredited)
Nell Craig as Mrs. Cobb (uncredited)
Gertrude Hoffmann as Mrs. Noon - Cobb's Landlady (uncredited)
Alec B. Francis as Rev. Thatcher (uncredited)
Chief John Big Tree as Chinese Guard (uncredited)
Wong Chung as Villager (uncredited)
John George as Gangster (uncredited)
John Ince as Burke (uncredited)
Frank LaRue as Jim (uncredited)
Ivan Linow as Chee Foo (uncredited)
Charles Sellon as Rev. Junius P. Withers (uncredited)