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Where to Watch The Great McGinty (1940)
It's Two-Fisted FUN! A fightin' fool gives you laughter of a lifetime..!
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...
Comedy 82 min 6.9/10 from 77 votes
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Cast
- Brian Donlevy as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
- Muriel Angelus as Catharine McGinty
- Akim Tamiroff as The Boss
- Allyn Joslyn as George
- William Demarest as Skeeters - The Politician