- HD 1080
- Runtime: 82m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Preston Sturges
- Stars: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, Allyn Joslyn, William Demarest
- keywords: politics, great depression, black and white, depression era, banana republic, hobo, election fraud
- Production_studio: Paramount Pictures
- Slogan: It's Two-Fisted FUN! A fightin' fool gives you laughter of a lifetime..!
- The The Great McGinty is featured in the top rankings of 1940
- #13 in Top Comedy Movies of 1940
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...