The Great McGinty

Name: The Great McGinty
Uploaded: 1940-08-01T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 82 min
Description: 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...

7.00
January 1940
82 min

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...

Type:
MOVIE
Country:
US
Genres:
Comedy
Release:
August 1940
Production:
Paramount Pictures
Cast:
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
Tags:
politics, great depression, black and white, depression era, banana republic, hobo, election fraud

The Great McGinty

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