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The Great McGinty

It's Two-Fisted FUN! A fightin' fool gives you laughter of a lifetime..!

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The Great McGinty — Plot

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...

  • Release date
  • August 1, 1940
  • Runtime
  • 82 min
  • Genres
  • Comedy
  • Director
  • Preston Sturges

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The Great McGinty — Cast

Brian Donlevy photo Brian Donlevy Daniel 'Dan' McGinty Muriel Angelus photo Muriel Angelus Catharine McGinty Akim Tamiroff photo Akim Tamiroff The Boss Allyn Joslyn photo Allyn Joslyn George William Demarest photo William Demarest Skeeters - The Politician Louis Jean Heydt photo Louis Jean Heydt Tommy Thompson Harry Rosenthal Louie - The Boss' Bodyguard Arthur Hoyt photo Arthur Hoyt Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast

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