The Great McGinty

(1940)

★ 6.9 IMDb · 80 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1940

Runtime: 82 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Preston Sturges

Cast: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, Эллин Джослин, William Demarest, Louis Jean Heydt, Harry Rosenthal, Arthur Hoyt, Libby Taylor, Thurston Hall

Plot

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...