The Great McGinty (1940)

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Country: USA
Genres: Comedy
Release: 1940-08-23
Director: Preston Sturges
Writers: Preston Sturges
Language: English | Russian
Stars: Brian Donlevy , Muriel Angelus , Akim Tamiroff , Allyn Joslyn , William Demarest , Louis Jean Heydt , Harry Rosenthal , Arthur Hoyt , Libby Taylor , Thurston Hall
Runtime: 82 min
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. 1 win total
AKA: Down Went McGinty (United Kingdom) , Eklogika skandala (Greece) , Εκλογικά σκάνδαλα (Greece) , El gran McGinty (Spain) , Skojare gör karriär (Sweden) , Κυβερνήτης με το στανιό (Greece) , The Story of a Man (United States of America) , Der große McGinty (Germany) , The Great McGinty , Así paga el diablo (Argentina) , Il grande McGinty (Italy) , Down Went McGinty (Australia) , O Tirano da Cidade (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Великий МакГинти , The Mantle of Dignity (United States of America) , O Homem que Se Vendeu (Brazil) , Величний МакҐінті (Ukraine) , Down Went McGinty (United States of America) , Así paga el diablo (Mexico) , Wielki McGinty (Poland) , The Vagrant (United States of America) , Biograhy of a Bum (United States of America) , A botcsinálta kormányzó (Hungary) , Gouverneur malgré lui (Belgium) , Gouverneur malgré lui (France, French Republic) , Así paga el diablo (Uruguay, Eastern Republic of) , The Great McGinty (United States of America)
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…
IMDB:tt0032554