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