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The Great McGinty (1940)
Directed by Preston Sturges
“It's Two-Fisted FUN! A fightin' fool gives you laughter of a lifetime..!”
Comedy · 1h 22m
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...
Cast
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
H
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
Crew
- Director
- Preston Sturges
- Writer
- Preston Sturges
- Director of Photography
- William C. Mellor
- Original Music Composer
- Friedrich Hollaender
- Editor
- Hugh Bennett
- Producer
- Buddy G. DeSylva
Details
- Release date
- 1940-08-01
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Russian
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount Pictures