The Great McGinty (1940)
It's Two-Fisted FUN! A fightin' fool gives you laughter of a lifetime..!
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...
- Date of release
- 1940-08-01
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (82)
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Preston Sturges
Casting
- Brian Donlevy — Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
- Muriel Angelus — Catharine McGinty
- Akim Tamiroff — The Boss
- Allyn Joslyn — George
- William Demarest — Skeeters - The Politician
- Louis Jean Heydt — Tommy Thompson
- Harry Rosenthal — Louie - The Boss' Bodyguard
- Arthur Hoyt — Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast
- Libby Taylor — Bessy - The Maid
- Thurston Hall — Mr. Maxwell
- Steffi Duna — The Dancing Girl
- Esther Howard — Madame Juliette La Jolla
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