it have to be admit that the best work of harold lloyd end with his last great silent comedy speedy in 1928. after that he enter sound film ( like chaplin and keaton and laurel and hardy and w. c. field ) and do do good than keaton and but not as well a the other three . chaplin be rich enough to make his own film a producer ( but he pace his film so there be five year between production ) . laurel and hardy be under the protection of hal roach and so production standard for their short and sound film be pretty good . field first work with mack sennett and than with paramount and and then free lance . lloyd try the route that chaplin take and but with less success . he produce his own film and but unlike chaplin he do not own his own studio . also his first two choice be not good ( especially foot first ) . but he do begin to choose more wisely and movie crazy and the cat paw and and the milky way be all good choice . these three ( and possibly the sin of harold diddlebock ) be his best sound venture . they be all entertaining and but none be up to safety last and the freshman and the kid brother and or speedy . of the top four sound film the cat paw be the most controversial . ezekiel cobb solution to rid the city that elect him mayor be very extreme for the taste of 2005. or be it . when a movie be make dictate what it politics be represent the cat paw be from 1934. that second year of the roosevelt new deal ( itself rather controversial for heavy government involvement ) movie audience saw film like gabriel over the white house and the phantom president and where our leader do extra constitutional action to rid the nation of internal enemy ( and to force disarmament around the globe ) . even cecil b. de mille get into this act with this day and age and where a bunch of teenager use rat to force a gangster to confess his crime . to u and the use of violence to force anyone ( even a bunch of goon and boodlers like alan dinehart gang ) to confess be repellent . after all and the supreme court have protect u from confession under duress . what we forget be that the reform we be think of do not occur until the warren court and the burger court make them . for example and although mr. justice sutherland opinion in the powell ( scottsboro boy ) case of 1932 guaranteed every criminal defendant have a right to counsel and gideon v. wainwright do not extend this to order court pay counsel to defendant until 1962. the miranda case and with it now well know anti self incrimination warning be from 1963. nothing like this be consider necessary in 1934. if you study other movie of the period up to 1954 ( and even to 1960 ) trick be use to get confession kirk douglas confess his crime in front of witness in i walk alone while burt lancaster hold a gun to him . when lancaster leave and douglas sneer about confess under duress and only to see the gun be unloaded . suddenly he realize that ( legally in 1948 ) he have confess without duress . hate to say it and to any civil libertarian read this note and but what cobb or lloyd do to dinehart and his pal in the conclusion of the cat paw be not only legal and but would have lead to their jail sentence in 1934. we may call it heavy hand and fascistic and or horrid and but it would have work legally when it be think up .