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The Great McGinty
It's Two-Fisted FUN! A fightin' fool gives you laughter of a lifetime..!
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...
Key Crew
Writer: Preston Sturges
Producer: Buddy G. DeSylva
Director: Preston Sturges
Director of Photography: William C. Mellor
Top 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
Harry Rosenthal
Louie - The Boss' Bodyguard
Arthur Hoyt
Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast
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The Great McGinty (1940) ORIGINAL TRAILER
