The Great McGinty
1940 • Comedy
Preston Sturges
Writer
Preston Sturges
Director
Status
Released
Release date
August 1, 1940
Duration
82 Min
Language
en
Popularity
1.4923
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
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...
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
Dewey Robinson
Sylvia Andrew
William Benedict
Sammy Blum
Richard Carle
Ed Cassidy
William Edmunds
Byron Foulger
Harry Hayden
Lorimer Johnston
Wanda McKay
George Melford
Charles R. Moore
Paul Newlan
Emory Parnell
Jean Phillips
Victor Potel
Lee Shumway
Walter Soderling
Larry Steers
Kay Stewart
Dorothy Vernon
Robert Warwick
Pat West
