The Great McGinty (1940)
Synopsis
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Release Date: 1940-08-01
Runtime: 82 minutes
Director: Preston Sturges
Top Cast
- Brian Donlevy as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
- Muriel Angelus as Catharine McGinty
- Akim Tamiroff as The Boss
- Allyn Joslyn as George
- William Demarest as Skeeters - The Politician
- Louis Jean Heydt as Tommy Thompson
- Harry Rosenthal as Louie - The Boss' Bodyguard
- Arthur Hoyt as Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast
- Libby Taylor as Bessy - The Maid
- Thurston Hall as Mr. Maxwell
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