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1940

The Great McGinty

Directed by Preston Sturges
It's Two-Fisted FUN! A fightin' fool gives you laughter of a lifetime..!

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...

Duration

1h 22m

Released

August 1, 1940

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Cast51

  • Brian Donlevy
  • Muriel Angelus
  • Akim Tamiroff
  • Allyn Joslyn
  • William Demarest
  • Louis Jean Heydt
  • Harry Rosenthal
  • Arthur Hoyt
  • Libby Taylor

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