The Great McGinty

The Great McGinty is a 1940 Hollywood comedy movie written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy.

Plot outline

Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy) is a tramp who impresses a local political boss by voting 37 times in a rigged mayoral election. McGinty becomes one of the boss's enforcers, then his political protégé, winning the mayor's job as a "reform" candidate, and going on to the governor's mansion before a change of heart compels him to take public service seriously.

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Both Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff, who played the machine's corrupt boss, reprised their roles in Sturges' 1943 comedy The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.

Related Topics:
Akim Tamiroff - 1943 - The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

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