Movie

The Great McGinty

NR 1940 1 h 22 min
70%
Audience score82 votes on TMDB

“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...

Screenplay
Preston Sturges
Status
Released
Release date
01/08/1940
Original language
English

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