The Great McGinty
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| The Great McGinty | |
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| Directed by | Preston Sturges |
| Written by | Preston Sturges |
| Starring | Brian Donlevy Muriel Angelus Akim Tamiroff Allyn Joslyn William Demarest Louis Jean Heydt Harry Rosenthal Arthur Hoyt Libby Taylor Thurston Hall Steffi Duna |
| Music by | Frederick Hollander John Leipold |
| Cinematography | William C. Mellor |
| Editing by | Hugh Bennett |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 15, 1940 |
| Running time | 83 min. |
| Language | English |
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The Great McGinty is a 1940 Hollywood comedy movie written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Brian Donlevy. It was Sturges's first film as a director, and he famously sold his script for it to Paramount Pictures for just $1 on condition he could direct the film.
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Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy) is a tramp who impresses a local political boss by voting 37 times in a rigged mayoral election. McGinty becomes one of the boss's enforcers, then his political protégé, winning the mayor's job as a "reform" candidate, and going on to the governor's mansion before a change of heart compels him to take public service seriously.
Both Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff, who played the machine's corrupt boss, reprised their roles in Sturges' 1943 comedy The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.
