The Great McGinty
It's Two-Fisted FUN! A fightin' fool gives you laughter of a lifetime..!
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- Comedy
Overview
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...
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 1, 1940
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English, Russian
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount,Paramount Pictures
- Cast
- Jean Phillips,Akim Tamiroff,Sylvia Andrew,Wanda McKay,Dewey Robinson,Arthur Hoyt,Charles McAvoy,Bess Wade,Donnie Kerr,Duke Greenand 41 more
- Director
- Preston Sturges
- Writer
- Preston Sturges
- Producer
- Buddy G. DeSylva,William LeBaron
- Cinematography
- William C. Mellor
- Music
- Friedrich Hollaender
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0032554