The Great McGinty

Name: The Great McGinty
Genre: Comedy
Released: 01 Aug 1940
Rating: 6.91
Cast: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, Allyn Joslyn, William Demarest

It's Two-Fisted FUN! A fightin' fool gives you laughter of a lifetime..! 1940-08-01 United States of America 82 minutes.

6.91 69 votes

Comedy politics great depression black and white depression era banana republic hobo election fraud

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Overview

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...

Year 1940

Studio Paramount Pictures

Director Preston Sturges

Crew Preston Sturges (Director), Preston Sturges (Writer), Buddy G. DeSylva (Producer), William LeBaron (Executive Producer), Hugh Bennett (Editor), Hans Dreier (Art Direction)

Popularity 5

Language English, Pусский