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The Great McGinty
Directed by
Preston Sturges
Passed
1940
82m
Comedy
7.2
100%
79%
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Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.
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Cast of The Great McGinty
Brian Donlevy
Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
Muriel Angelus
Catharine McGinty
Akim Tamiroff
The Boss
Allyn Joslyn
George
William Demarest
Skeeters - The Politician
Louis Jean Heydt
Tommy Thompson
Harry Rosenthal
Louie - The Boss' Bodyguard
Arthur Hoyt
Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast
Libby Taylor
Bessy - The Maid
Thurston Hall
Mr. Maxwell
Steffi Duna
The Dancing Girl
Esther Howard
Madame Juliette La Jolla
Frank Moran
The Boss' Chauffeur
Jimmy Conlin
The Lookout - At Felgman's
Dewey Robinson
Benny Felgman
Donnie Kerr
Donnie - Catherine's Boy, Age 4
Mary Thomas
Mary - Catherine's Girl, Age 6
Drew Roddy
Donnie - Catherine's Boy, Age 9
Sheila Sheldon
Mary - Catherine's Girl, Age 11
George Anderson
Charlie - Cashier (uncredited)
Sylvia Andrew
Bit Role (uncredited)
William Benedict
Farm Boy (uncredited)
Sammy Blum
Bartender (uncredited)
Richard Carle
Dr. Jonas J. Jarvis - Card Player in Cantina (uncredited)
Ed Cassidy
Detective (uncredited)
Pauline Drake
Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
William Edmunds
Professor - Election Official at Gymnasium (uncredited)
Betty Farrington
Bit Role (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Governor's Secretary (uncredited)
Duke Green
Double (uncredited)
Harry Hayden
Poll Watcher at Barber Shop (uncredited)
Lorimer Johnston
Old Crack-Pot (uncredited)
Charles McAvoy
Guard (uncredited)
Wanda McKay
Bit Role (uncredited)
George Melford
Senior Senator (uncredited)
Charles R. Moore
McGinty's Valet (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Saloon Extra (uncredited)
Paul Newlan
Ugly Prisoner Demanding Quiet (uncredited)
Enrique Orona
Libertad, Mexican Boy (uncredited)
Emory Parnell
Policeman at Soup Kitchen (uncredited)
Jean Phillips
New Manicurist (uncredited)
Victor Potel
Cook (uncredited)
C.L. Sherwood
Guard at Jail (uncredited)
Lee Shumway
Mike - Cop (uncredited)
Walter Soderling
Election Official at Laundry (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Guest at Election Celebration (uncredited)
Kay Stewart
First Manicurist (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
Voting Registrar (uncredited)
Bess Wade
Bit Role (uncredited)
Robert Warwick
Opposition Speaker (uncredited)
Pat West
Pappia Saunders - Bail Bondsman (uncredited)
The Great McGinty Ratings & Reviews
Filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti
The trademark Sturges dialogue is in rare form here, each character armed with a quiver full of tart jabs and put-downs.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
You won't make a mistake, believe us, if you stuff the ballot-box for The Great McGinty.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
Sturges' directorial debut is a little rough around the edges, but still good.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It's the kind of ironical film Capra wouldn't or couldn't make.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Deliciously biting political satire.
New York Times
Walter Goodman
''The Great McGinty'' was the great Preston Sturges's first showing as a director, and a happy occasion it was.
Variety
Variety Staff
Sturges displays plenty of ability in accentuating both the comedy and dramatic elements of his material, withal maintaining a consistent pace in the unreeling.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Donlevy isn't Sturges' most appealing lead, but he'll do, and Tamiroff really works it as his patron, the Boss.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Preston Sturges's first film as writer-director (1940) and one of his most cynical comedies -- a cut below his best work, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't see it.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
The perfect fusion of Sturges's wit and frenzy.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
The evolution from hoodlum to governor: 'You got to crawl before you can creep, right?'
San Francisco Examiner
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Minor Sturges.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Bob Bloom
A classic, cynical comedy about politics and corruption; still pertinent today.
Kalamazoo Gazette
James Sanford
not "Lady Eve"-caliber Preston Sturges, but well worth viewing
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
Sturges' tastes were precisely in synch with the public's...
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
The Great McGinty slowly-but-surely begins to improve as it progresses into an increasingly (and unexpectedly) engrossing midsection...
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