The Great McGinty (1940)

7.0/10 • 82 min • Comedy

Overview

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...

Cast

Brian Donlevy

Daniel 'Dan' McGinty

Muriel Angelus

Catharine McGinty

Akim Tamiroff

Allyn Joslyn

William Demarest

Skeeters - The Politician

Louis Jean Heydt

Harry Rosenthal

Louie - The Boss' Bodyguard

Arthur Hoyt

Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast

Libby Taylor

Bessy - The Maid

Thurston Hall

Steffi Duna

The Dancing Girl

Esther Howard

Madame Juliette La Jolla

Frank Moran

The Boss' Chauffeur

Jimmy Conlin

The Lookout - At Felgman's

Dewey Robinson

Benny Felgman

Recommendations

Shadow of the Thin Man

The Thin Man Goes Home

A Night in Casablanca

Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story

Another Thin Man

Fun with Dick and Jane

Scooby-Doo! Meets the Boo Brothers

Much Ado About Nothing

Dennis the Menace

Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz

You're Never Too Young

Blackbeard's Ghost