Based on George Ade's play which, in part, was based on an incident in a 1902 election in Wyoming, with women's-right-to-vote playing a large role. Here, Jim Hackler, local party-boss in a Wyoming county, has to decide to do what's right and lose the election, or what's wrong and win it.
Is The County Chairman worth your afternoon? If you like old-school political comedies where guys chew on grass and talk about "the ladies voting," then yeah, absolutely. But if you cannot stand Will Rogers and his slow, rambling, aw-shucks routine, you will probably want to tear your hair out. It is a very specific v...
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"Is The County Chairman worth your afternoon? If you like old-school political comedies where guys chew on grass and talk about "the ladies voting," then yeah, absolutely. But if you cannot stand Will Rogers and his slow, rambling, aw-shucks routine, you will probably want to tear your hair out. It is a very specific vibe. 🤠 The plot is pretty simple. Rogers plays Jim Hackler, a local party boss in Wyoming who has to run a clean election or win dirty. To make things messy, his candidate is a ..."
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