for those of you look for the crazy stunt that typify a harold lloyd silent comedy and this be not the film for you . what the cat paw give u be an interesting and atypical character for lloyd who be try to establish himself in sound . for me the close movie comparison to lloyd character be that of peter seller in be there . for all the education that lloyd have receive in deal with the world and he might as well have be bring up in isolation a seller be . but where he be bring up be a a missionary child in china and i do not know how much christianity he and his family be able to teach the chinese and but young harold have learn the wisdom of chinese philosopher lin po whom he quote constantly like a fortune cookie aphorism . a it turn out lin po turn out to be one wise dude . anyway lloyd father samuel s. hinds have decide his son need some education in the modern world of 20th century america and he send him back to be the guest of the pastor of the home church which sponsor the mission . the pastor there be the perennial candidate of the reform movement of that town of stockport . but no sooner do lloyd arrive and the pastor die . now the reform movement be a sham and the pastor a patsy of the political boss who need a straw man opponent in every election . they decide lloyd just might be a good patsy than the guy who just die . of course a it go in these type of film the patsy prove to be not so easy a proposition . in fact lloyd constantly quote from lin po and the way charlie chan use to dispense wisdom prove quite the adversary for the crook who run stockport . in addition lloyd gain the admiration of una merkel and a cynical a dame a jean arthur be in mr. deed and mr. smith . the cat paw be still a nice political satire though it do not establish harold lloyd a big a comedy name a he be in silent film . a nice cast of player be select by director sam taylor top by george barbier who play a political bos who discover lloyd and actually prof to have a streak of honesty in him .