The Great McGinty (1940)

The Great McGinty
5.3
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  • Genre: Comedy
  • Running time: 82 min
  • Premiere: 1st of August 1940

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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Cast

Brian Donlevy
as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
Emory Parnell
as Policeman at Soup Kitchen (uncredited)
Jean Phillips
as New Manicurist (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
as Governor's Secretary (uncredited)
William Demarest
as Skeeters - The Politician
Paul Newlan
as Ugly Prisoner Demanding Quiet (uncredited)
Muriel Angelus
as Catharine McGinty
Larry Steers
as Guest at Election Celebration (uncredited)
Akim Tamiroff
as The Boss
Robert Warwick
as Opposition Speaker (uncredited)
Allyn Joslyn
as George
Dorothy Vernon
as Voting Registrar (uncredited)
Walter Soderling
as Election Official at Laundry (uncredited)
William Benedict
as Farm Boy (uncredited)
Ed Cassidy
as Detective (uncredited)
Thurston Hall
as Mr. Maxwell
Esther Howard
as Madame Juliette La Jolla
Arthur Hoyt
as Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast
Steffi Duna
as The Dancing Girl
Wanda McKay
as Bit Role (uncredited)
Kay Stewart
as First Manicurist (uncredited)
Harry Hayden
as Poll Watcher at Barber Shop (uncredited)
Libby Taylor
as Bessy - The Maid
Dewey Robinson
as Benny Felgman
William Edmunds
as Professor - Election Official at Gymnasium (uncredited)
George Melford
as Senior Senator (uncredited)
Victor Potel
as Cook (uncredited)
Jimmy Conlin
as The Lookout - At Felgman's
Sammy Blum
as Bartender (uncredited)
Louis Jean Heydt
as Tommy Thompson
Frank Moran
as The Boss' Chauffeur
Lee Shumway
as Mike - Cop (uncredited)
Lorimer Johnston
as Old Crack-Pot (uncredited)
Richard Carle
as Dr. Jonas J. Jarvis - Card Player in Cantina (uncredited)
Charles R. Moore
as McGinty's Valet (uncredited)
Pat West
as Pappia Saunders - Bail Bondsman (uncredited)
Charles McAvoy
as Guard (uncredited)
Harry Rosenthal
as Louie - The Boss' Bodyguard

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