The Cat's-Paw

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The Cat's-Paw is a 1934 American comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a naive missionary’s son unwittingly drawn into small-town political corruption.

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Label Occurrences
The Cat's-Paw canonical 1
The Cat's-Paw (novel) 1

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American comedy film
film
authorOfSourceWork Clarence Budington Kelland
basedOn The Cat's-Paw self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Cat's-Paw (novel)
blackAndWhite true
cinematographyBy Walter Lundin
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Sam Taylor
distributor Paramount Pictures
editedBy Alan McNeil
era Pre-Code Hollywood
filmingProcess 35 mm film
genre comedy film
hasFilmFormat feature film
hasHaroldLloydFeature yes
hasNarrativeTheme naivety versus cynicism
political corruption
small-town politics
hasTitleCharacter Ezekiel Cobb
hasWorkType sound film
languageOfWorkOrName English
mainCharacter Ezekiel Cobb
mainCharacterPortrayedBy Harold Lloyd
musicBy John Leipold
notableFor satirical treatment of American local politics
originalLanguage English
partOf Harold Lloyd
surface form: Harold Lloyd filmography
plotSummary A naive missionary’s son returns from China and is unwittingly drawn into small-town political corruption.
producer Harold Lloyd
productionCompany Harold Lloyd Corporation
releaseDate 1934-09-28
releaseYear 1934
runtimeMinutes 102
screenwriter John Meehan
Sam Taylor
setIn fictional small town in the United States
starring Alan Dinehart
Florence Roberts
George Barbier
Grace Bradley
Grant Mitchell
Harold Lloyd
Nat Pendleton
Una Merkel
timePeriodOfSetting early 20th century

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Subject: The Cat's-Paw
Description of subject: The Cat's-Paw is a 1934 American comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a naive missionary’s son unwittingly drawn into small-town political corruption.

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Harold Lloyd notableWork The Cat's-Paw
The Cat's-Paw basedOn The Cat's-Paw self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Cat's-Paw (novel)