Your rating
Play trailer
69
TMDB
72
-
V&R
0
Favorites
Watchlist
The Great McGinty
1940, Aug 01
1h 22m
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...
Directed by
Preston Sturges
Written by
Preston Sturges
William Demarest
Skeeters - The Politician
Akim Tamiroff
The Boss
Brian Donlevy
Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
William Benedict
Farm Boy (uncredited)
Thurston Hall
Mr. Maxwell
Byron Foulger
Governor's Secretary (uncredited)
Richard Carle
Dr. Jonas J. Jarvis - Card Player in Cantina (uncredited)
Robert Warwick
Opposition Speaker (uncredited)
Emory Parnell
Policeman at Soup Kitchen (uncredited)
Allyn Joslyn
George
Jimmy Conlin
The Lookout - At Felgman's
Paul Newlan
Ugly Prisoner Demanding Quiet (uncredited)
Lee Shumway
Mike - Cop (uncredited)
Wanda McKay
Bit Role (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Guest at Election Celebration (uncredited)
Frank Moran
The Boss' Chauffeur
Harry Hayden
Poll Watcher at Barber Shop (uncredited)
Louis Jean Heydt
Tommy Thompson
Ed Cassidy
Detective (uncredited)
Esther Howard
Madame Juliette La Jolla
Dewey Robinson
Benny Felgman
Kay Stewart
First Manicurist (uncredited)
William Edmunds
Professor - Election Official at Gymnasium (uncredited)
Arthur Hoyt
Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast
Steffi Duna
The Dancing Girl
Charles R. Moore
McGinty's Valet (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
Voting Registrar (uncredited)
Victor Potel
Cook (uncredited)
Jean Phillips
New Manicurist (uncredited)
Libby Taylor
Bessy - The Maid
Walter Soderling
Election Official at Laundry (uncredited)
Harry Rosenthal
Louie - The Boss' Bodyguard
Sammy Blum
Bartender (uncredited)
Lorimer Johnston
Old Crack-Pot (uncredited)
Muriel Angelus
Catharine McGinty
Sylvia Andrew
Bit Role (uncredited)
Pat West
Pappia Saunders - Bail Bondsman (uncredited)
Donnie Kerr
Donnie - Catherine's Boy, Age 4
Mary Thomas
Mary - Catherine's Girl, Age 6
Drew Roddy
Donnie - Catherine's Boy, Age 9
Sheila Sheldon
Mary - Catherine's Girl, Age 11
George Anderson
Charlie - Cashier (uncredited)
Pauline Drake
Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
Betty Farrington
Bit Role (uncredited)
Duke Green
Double (uncredited)
Charles McAvoy
Guard (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Saloon Extra (uncredited)
Enrique Orona
Libertad, Mexican Boy (uncredited)
C.L. Sherwood
Guard at Jail (uncredited)
Bess Wade
Bit Role (uncredited)
0