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The Great McGinty

The Great McGinty

Original title
The Great McGinty
Year
1940
Gender
Comedy
Director
Preston Sturges
Country
United States of America
Details
82 minutes / black & white / sound

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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