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The Great McGinty

The Great McGinty

Preston Sturges

1940

  • Comedy
7.0

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 & crew

  • Preston SturgesDirector
  • Brian DonlevyDaniel 'Dan' McGinty
  • Muriel AngelusCatharine McGinty
  • Akim TamiroffThe Boss
  • Allyn JoslynGeorge
  • William DemarestSkeeters - The Politician
  • Louis Jean HeydtTommy Thompson
  • Harry RosenthalLouie - The Boss' Bodyguard
  • Arthur HoytMayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast

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