Fresh
Sturges displays plenty of ability in accentuating both the comedy and dramatic elements of his material, withal maintaining a consistent pace in the unreeling.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Great McGinty
It's Two-Fisted FUN! A fightin' fool gives you laughter of a lifetime..!
1940 · 1h 22m · PASSED
Comedy
Directed by
Preston Sturges
Overview
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...
Director and cast
- Preston Sturges Director
- Brian Donlevy as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
- Akim Tamiroff as The Boss
- Muriel Angelus as Catharine McGinty
- Allyn Joslyn as George
- William Demarest as Skeeters, le politicien
- Jimmy Conlin as le guetteur
- Steffi Duna as la danseuse
- Arthur Hoyt as le maire Wilfred T. Tillinghast
- Libby Taylor as Bessy (maid)
- Thurston Hall as Mr. Maxwell
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
100%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A wonderfully dry satire.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Fresh
You won't make a mistake, believe us, if you stuff the ballot-box for The Great McGinty.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
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.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
The perfect fusion of Sturges's wit and frenzy.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
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