The Great McGinty (1940)
It's Two-Fisted FUN! A fightin' fool gives you laughter of a lifetime..!
82 min
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
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Brian Donlevy as Dan McGinty
- Muriel Angelus as Catherine McGinty
- Akim Tamiroff as The Boss
- Allyn Joslyn as George
- William Demarest as Skeeters
- Louis Jean Heydt as Tommy Thompson
- Harry Rosenthal as Louie - The Bodyguard
- Arthur Hoyt as Mayor Wilfred Tillinghast
- Libby Taylor as Bessy - The Colored Maid
- Thurston Hall as Mr. Maxwell
Crew
- Preston Sturges · Director
- Preston Sturges · Writer
- Paul Jones · Producer
- Friedrich Hollaender · Composer
- William C. Mellor · Cinematographer
- Hugh Bennett · Editor