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Judge Priest is a 1934 American comedy film starring Will Rogers. The film was directed by John Ford, produced by Sol M. Wurtzel in association with Fox Film Corporation, and based on humorist Irvin S. Cobb's character Judge Priest. The picture is set in post-reconstruction Kentucky, with Tom Brown, Anita Louise, Henry Walthall, David Landau, and Stepin Fetchit in support. It was remade by Ford in 1953 as The Sun…
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Hollywood has always exploited people’s tendency to view the past, especially the more distant and less palatable aspects of it, through a rose-tinted lens. This exploitation of nostalgia was particularly effective in the 1930s, when cinemagoers desperately needed an escape from the harsh realities of the Great Depression. In the case of the 1934 comedy *Judge Priest*, that escape was found in the rural Kentucky of…More
