

The Great McGinty
Visit website6.9/10 • 71
1940-08-01 • 1h 22m
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...
- Directors
- Preston Sturges
- Writters
- Preston Sturges
- Editors
- Preston Sturges, Hugh Bennett

The Great McGinty
Visit website1940-08-01 • 1h 22m
6.9/10 • 71
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...
- Directors
- Preston Sturges
- Writters
- Preston Sturges
- Editors
- Preston Sturges, Hugh Bennett
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsBrian Donlevy
Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
Muriel Angelus
Catharine McGinty
Akim Tamiroff
The Boss
Allyn Joslyn
George
William Demarest
Skeeters - The Politician
Louis Jean Heydt
Tommy Thompson
Harry Rosenthal
Louie - The Boss' Bodyguard
Arthur Hoyt
Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast
Libby Taylor
Bessy - The Maid
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- Original Language
- English
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- Keywords
- politicsgreat depressionblack and whitedepression erabanana republichoboelection fraud