The Great McGinty
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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...
Status: Released
Released Date: 1940-08-01
Runtime: 82 mins
Director: Preston Sturges
Writer: Preston Sturges
Spoken language: English, Pусский
Genres: Comedy
Original title: The Great McGinty
Production Companies: Paramount Pictures
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
Brian Donlevy
Muriel Angelus
Akim Tamiroff
Allyn Joslyn
William Demarest
Louis Jean Heydt
Harry Rosenthal
Arthur Hoyt
Libby Taylor
Thurston Hall
Steffi Duna
Esther Howard
Frank Moran
Jimmy Conlin
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