Word: cobbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Metropolitan: "Judge Priest"--Will Roger's latest movie based on Irwin S. Cobb's story by that name. To be reviewed in the next issue...
...southern circuit judge who takes mildly to Bourbon whiskey. Will Rogers, too old to be the main love interest, assumes again, as he did in Handy Andy, the role of matchmaker for younger members of the cast. Presented with dialog patterned after Irvin S. Cobb's quiet Judge Priest stories and permitted but a minimum of head-ducking. Funnyman Rogers is a less hackneyed philosopher than he was in earlier films. Time is the slow Kentucky '90s. Plot is concerned with a judge who is fond of his nephew who is fond of the pretty but poor white...
...first person whom Ezekiel Cobb (Lloyd) meets in Stockport is the town's political boss (George Barbier), searching for a dummy candidate to run for mayor on a reform ticket. It seems to Boss Mayo and his cronies that Ezekiel Cobb is naïve enough for their purposes. When they nominate him, he wanders into a night club with a cigaret-counter girl (Una Merkel), attracts constituents, first by frolicking with chorus girls, then by defending a newsboy who has been mistreated by his rival candidate (Alan Dinehart...
...mayor, Ezekiel Cobb comports himself like a combination of Fiorello La Guardia and Charlie Chan. He says: "Honesty without experience is as water with no bucket to carry it in-Ling Po." He sets out to gain experience by discharging every dishonest employe in the city government, awarding a garbage disposal contract to the lowest bidder instead of to the grafter who expects it. When outraged politicians slip a package of incriminating bonds into his safe deposit vaults, Ezekiel Cobb decides to use brusque methods. He rounds up every malefactor in Stockport, locks them in a cellar, threatens to have...
...advice of his director, Sam Taylor, to make the picture without his customary comedy inventions. Less dependent on its star than previous Lloyd products but almost equally hilarious. The Cat's Paw should win the plaudits of the Legion of Decency without boring its opponents. Typical shot: Ezekiel Cobb, when he tries to use a telephone for the first time, talking in it without removing the receiver...