The Great McGinty
The Great McGinty

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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...... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Great McGinty:

Brian Donlevy
Muriel Angelus
Akim Tamiroff
Allyn Joslyn
William Demarest
Louis Jean Heydt

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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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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) - 8/10 by Ken HankeSturges' directorial debut is a little rough around the edges, but still good.
CinePassion - 7/10 by Fernando F. CroceThe evolution from hoodlum to governor: 'You got to crawl before you can creep, right?'
New York Times - 7/10 by Walter Goodman''The Great McGinty'' was the great Preston Sturges's first showing as a director, and a happy occasion it was.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 6/10 by Dennis SchwartzIt's the kind of ironical film Capra wouldn't or couldn't make.
User Review - 10/10 by Mathieu CI must first off say that I have always been a huge fan of Preston Sturges and love every one of his films, except for The Great Moment which I just like. This film teaches us that if you are a crooked man then you will be brought down the moment you decide to go straight. The film is wonderfully witty and also a little touching. The film is essentially a political satire but has characters we laugh at and also find interesting
User Review - 10/10 by Michael BMore of Sturgess's moral complexities wrapped in an intelligent satire of politics and--morality itself.
User Review - 10/10 by Preston SGreat film, can't believe I sold the screenplay to Paramount for a dollar. LOL!!
User Review - 10/10 by Alan HThe film that inspired a young Charles J Haughey (apart from the conscience part).
User Review - 8/10 by Mickey FA wonderful look a political corruption in 1940s America. Donlevy's superb and Tamiroff matches him. Humorous and touching.
User Review - 8/10 by Stephen MThe Great McGinty was Preston Sturges' directorial debut; he famously sold the script - which went on to win him an Oscar - to Paramount for $10, on the condition that he could direct the movie himself. In a seedy bar in a banana republic, Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy) recalls his meteoric rise (and spectacular fall) from bum to racketeer, to crooked mayor, to honest state governor and back to bum again. By staging his story as a post-catastrophic flashback from skid row, Sturges neatly undermines the sentimentality and predictability of McGinty's romance with Catherine (Muriel Angelus), the secretary he marries out of convenience, but the lack of a Happy Ending makes the picture oddly unsatisfying. This problem is emphasised by the economical running time; clocking in at a little over 80 minutes, McGinty's end credits begin to roll at about the time we would typically anticipate that final twist enabling the leads to live happily ever after.

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