The Great McGinty
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...
Year: 1940
Genre: Comedy
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Preston Sturges
Cast: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, Allyn Joslyn, William Demarest, Louis Jean Heydt
Crew: Preston Sturges (Writer), Hans Dreier (Art Direction), Hugh Bennett (Editor), A. E. Freudeman (Set Decoration), Buddy G. DeSylva (Producer), Friedrich Hollaender (Original Music Composer)
Runtime: 82 minutes
Release: Aug 01, 1940
IMDb: 6.90/10 by 71 users
Popularity: 2
Country: United States of America
Language: English, Pусский
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : politics, great depression, black and white, depression era, banana republic, hobo, election fraud
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