The Great McGinty

Release Date:
Aug 15, 1940
Running Time:
1:22
Genre:
Comedy
Director:
Preston Sturges
Cast:
Brian Donlevy Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
Muriel Angelus Catherine McGinty
Akim Tamiroff The Boss
Allyn Joslyn George
William Demarest The Politician
Louis Jean Heydt Tommy Thompson
Arthur Hoyt Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast
Harry Rosenthal Louie, the Bodyguard
Libby Taylor Bessy, the Colored Maid
Steffi Duna The Dancing Girl
Esther Howard Madame Juliette La Jolla
Dewey Robinson Benny Felgman
Richard Carle Dr. Jarvis, Card Player in Cantina
Byron Foulger Governor's secretary (uncredited)
Emory Parnell Policeman at soup kitchen (uncredited)
Victor Potel Cook (uncredited)
Harry Hayden Poll watcher at barber shop (uncredited)
Robert Warwick Opposition speaker (uncredited)
Writers:
Preston Sturges
Language:
English

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In a dive south of the border, bartender Dan McGinty stops a young man from committing suicide after a moment of dishonesty, and relates how a moment of honesty brought him down in a flashback. As a young man, McGinty joins a crooked political boss and rises from extortionist to alderman. Urged by the boss to marry his secretary to give respectability to his run for mayor, McGinty agrees -- only to fall in love with his wife and decide to do an honest thing for once in his life.

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