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The Great McGinty (1940)
Directed by Preston Sturges
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…
Rated NR | Length 82 minutes
Actors
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 | Donnie Kerr | Mary Thomas | Drew Roddy | Sheila Sheldon | George Anderson | Sylvia Andrew | William Benedict | Sammy Blum | Richard Carle | Ed Cassidy | Pauline Drake | William Edmunds | Betty Farrington | Byron Foulger | Duke Green | Harry Hayden | Lorimer Johnston | Charles McAvoy | Wanda McKay | George Melford | Charles R. Moore | Bert Moorhouse | Paul Newlan | Enrique Orona | Emory Parnell | Jean Phillips | Victor Potel | C.L. Sherwood | Lee Shumway | Walter Soderling | Larry Steers | Kay Stewart | Dorothy Vernon | Bess Wade | Robert Warwick | Pat West