The Great McGinty

• 7.0 Comedy
• 1940-08-01
• 82 minutes mins

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...

Starring:

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)

Director:

Preston Sturges

Writer:

Preston Sturges