The Great McGinty

The Great McGinty

7.0IMDb Score
Released:1940-08-01
Genre:Comedy
Duration:82 min
Director:Preston Sturges
Actors:Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, Allyn Joslyn, William Demarest
Production:Paramount Pictures

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...

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