The Great McGinty (1940)
1h 22m
Running Time
August 1, 1940Release Date
The Great McGinty (1940)
1h 22m
Running Time
August 1, 1940Release 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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Cast & Crew.
Brian Donlevy
Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
Muriel Angelus
Catharine McGinty
Akim Tamiroff
The Boss
Allyn Joslyn
George
William Demarest
Skeeters - The Politician
Louis Jean Heydt
Tommy Thompson
Harry Rosenthal
Louie - The Boss' Bodyguard
Arthur Hoyt
Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast
Libby Taylor
Bessy - The Maid
Thurston Hall
Mr. Maxwell
Steffi Duna
The Dancing Girl
Esther Howard
Madame Juliette La Jolla
Frank Moran
The Boss' Chauffeur
Paul Jones
Producer
Jimmy Conlin
The Lookout - At Felgman's
Dewey Robinson
Benny Felgman
Donnie Kerr
Donnie - Catherine's Boy, Age 4
Mary Thomas
Mary - Catherine's Girl, Age 6
Drew Roddy
Donnie - Catherine's Boy, Age 9
Sheila Sheldon
Mary - Catherine's Girl, Age 11
George Anderson
Charlie - Cashier (uncredited)
Sylvia Andrew
Bit Role (uncredited)
William Benedict
Farm Boy (uncredited)
Sammy Blum
Bartender (uncredited)
Richard Carle
Dr. Jonas J. Jarvis - Card Player in Cantina (uncredited)
Ed Cassidy
Detective (uncredited)
Pauline Drake
Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
William Edmunds
Professor - Election Official at Gymnasium (uncredited)
Betty Farrington
Bit Role (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Governor's Secretary (uncredited)
Duke Green
Double (uncredited)
Harry Hayden
Poll Watcher at Barber Shop (uncredited)
Lorimer Johnston
Old Crack-Pot (uncredited)
Charles McAvoy
Guard (uncredited)
Wanda McKay
Bit Role (uncredited)
George Melford
Senior Senator (uncredited)
Charles R. Moore
McGinty's Valet (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Saloon Extra (uncredited)
Paul Newlan
Ugly Prisoner Demanding Quiet (uncredited)
Enrique Orona
Libertad, Mexican Boy (uncredited)
Emory Parnell
Policeman at Soup Kitchen (uncredited)
Jean Phillips
New Manicurist (uncredited)
Victor Potel
Cook (uncredited)
C.L. Sherwood
Guard at Jail (uncredited)
Lee Shumway
Mike - Cop (uncredited)
Walter Soderling
Election Official at Laundry (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Guest at Election Celebration (uncredited)
Kay Stewart
First Manicurist (uncredited)
Media.
Details.
This Movie Is About.
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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