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  • The Great McGinty 1940 POSTER

    The Great McGinty

    1940

    English

    7.2

    6

    100%

    79%

    banana republic

    black and white

    Comedy

    depression era

    Drama

    great depression

    politics

    pre-unix

    Preston Sturges Preston Sturges Director Duke Green Duke Green as Double Richard Carle Richard Carle as Dr. Jonas J. Jarvis - Card Player in Cantina Paul Newlan Paul Newlan as Prisoner Demanding Quiet Louis Jean Heydt Louis Jean Heydt as Tommy Thompson
    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...
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