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The Great McGinty

It's Two-Fisted FUN! A fightin' fool gives you laughter of a lifetime..!

Not Rated Comedy

Starring: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, Allyn Joslyn, William Demarest

Writer: Preston Sturges

Release Date:
August 1, 1940
Ratings:
6.9 / 10
Director:
Preston Sturges
Companies:
Paramount Pictures

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...