Release Date
📅
Original Release
August 1, 1940
1h 22m
The Great McGinty (1940)
⭐ 7.082 min
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...
Director
Preston Sturges
Department: Directing
⭐Popularity: 0.6
Cast
Brian Donlevy
Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
⭐1.1
Muriel Angelus
Catharine McGinty
⭐0.1
Akim Tamiroff
The Boss
⭐0.9
Allyn Joslyn
George
⭐0.8
William Demarest
Skeeters - The Politician
⭐0.8
Louis Jean Heydt
Tommy Thompson
⭐0.6
Harry Rosenthal
Louie - The Boss' Bodyguard
⭐0.1
Arthur Hoyt
Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast
⭐0.5
Libby Taylor
Bessy - The Maid
⭐0.2
Thurston Hall
Mr. Maxwell
⭐0.6
Genres
Comedy
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