The Great McGinty
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| Directed by | Preston Sturges |
| Produced by | Buddy G. DeSylva (uncredited) Paul Jones (assoc. producer) |
| Written by | Preston Sturges |
| Starring | Brian Donlevy Muriel Angelus Akim Tamiroff |
| Music by | Frederick Hollander John Leipold |
| Cinematography | William C. Mellor |
| Editing by | Hugh Bennett |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 15, 1940 |
| Running time | 83 min. |
| Language | English |
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The Great McGinty is a 1940 Hollywood comedy movie written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff. It was Sturges's first film as a director; he sold his script for it to Paramount Pictures for just $1 on condition he direct the film. Sturges went on to win the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay.
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[edit] Plot
Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy) is a tramp who, cajoled into voting under a false name in order to get $2, 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.
[edit] Cast
- Brian Donlevy as Daniel McGinty
- Muriel Angelus as Catherine McGinty
- Akim Tamiroff as The Boss
- Allyn Joslyn as George
- William Demarest as The Politician
- Louis Jean Heydt as Tommy Thompson
- Harry Rosenthal as Louie
- Arthur Hoyt as Mayor Wilfred T. Tillinghast
- Libby Taylor as Bessy
- Thurston Hall as Mr. Maxwell
Steffi Duna as The Dancing Girl
Both Donlevy and Tamiroff reprised their roles in Sturges' 1944 comedy The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.
[edit] Influence
Tamiroff's malaprop-laced performance inspired the cartoon character Boris Badenov, the male half of the villainous husband-and-wife team Boris and Natasha on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.
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