The Great McGinty (1940)

1h 22m
Running Time

August 1, 1940
Release Date

The Great McGinty (1940)

1h 22m
Running Time

August 1, 1940
Release Date

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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.

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Release Date
August 1, 1940

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 22m

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

Wiki.

The Great McGinty is a 1940 American political satire comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff and featuring William Demarest and (in her final screen appearance) Muriel Angelus. It was Sturges's first film as a director; he sold the story to Paramount Pictures for just $10 on condition he direct the film. Sturges received an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

For the U.K. release, the film was retitled Down Went McGinty, alluding to the 1889 song.

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