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The Great McGinty (1940)

The Great McGinty (1940)

Comedy

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

Release Date: 1940, August 1
Directors: Preston Sturges
Countries: United States of America
Production: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Louis Jean Heydt, William Edmunds, Bert Moorhouse, Dewey Robinson, Kay Stewart, Frank Moran, William Benedict, Duke Green, Larry Steers, Bess Wade, Dorothy Vernon, Charles R. Moore

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...

Keywords:

politics great depression black and white depression era hobo election fraud banana republic