{"id":3717,"date":"2025-09-30T20:36:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2025-09-30T20:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:36:37","slug":"walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-judge-priest-and-tom-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/30\/walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-judge-priest-and-tom-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk of Fame Movie Adventures: Judge Priest and Tom Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/judge-priest-1.jpg\" alt=\"Stepin Fetchit and Will Rogers in Judge Priest.\" class=\"wp-image-3719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/judge-priest-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/judge-priest-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/judge-priest-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/judge-priest-2.jpg\" alt=\"David Landau and Tom Brown in Judge Priest.\" class=\"wp-image-3720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/judge-priest-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/judge-priest-2-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/judge-priest-2-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s really hard to enjoy a lighthearted comedy based entirely on the idea that the Confederacy was actually a great thing, and everybody got along. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also: I know there&#8217;s been some modern takes on Stepin Fetchit that claim his character is more of a joker than a racist caricature, but it sure doesn&#8217;t play positively in this movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tom-brown.jpg\" alt=\"Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of Tom Brown's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the Right, a black and white portrait photo of Tom Brown.\" class=\"wp-image-3721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tom-brown.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tom-brown-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tom-brown-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tom Brown (star at 1648 Vine) started as a child model\/actor, then worked his way up to bigger roles. Here he plays Jerome &#8220;Rome&#8221; Priest, Judge Priest&#8217;s nephew fresh out of law school who only wins his case because of his uncle&#8217;s meddling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s poster is completely unrelated to this movie, but I thought it looked cool so I used it. If that bugs you, send me a self addressed stamped envelope and I&#8217;ll return what you paid me for this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/judge-priest-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for Judge Priest mimicking the poster for The Misfits.\" class=\"wp-image-3718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/judge-priest-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/judge-priest-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/judge-priest-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/judge-priest.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such lighthearted and friendly racism!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20,359],"tags":[350,357,78,10,358],"class_list":["post-3717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","category-watch-of-fame","tag-fake-posters","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-walk-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3722,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions\/3722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}