The Great McGinty
The Great McGinty
Release: 1940-08-01
·Runtime: 82m
·★ 6.9
Comedy
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...
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Paramount Pictures
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Ed Cassidy
as Detective (uncredited)
William Edmunds
as Professor - Election Official at Gymnasium (uncredited)
Muriel Angelus
as Catharine McGinty
Akim Tamiroff
as The Boss
Louis Jean Heydt
as Tommy Thompson
Arthur Hoyt
as Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast
Jimmy Conlin
as The Lookout - At Felgman's
Dewey Robinson
as Benny Felgman
Frank Moran
as The Boss' Chauffeur
Harry Hayden
as Poll Watcher at Barber Shop (uncredited)
Lorimer Johnston
as Old Crack-Pot (uncredited)
Charles McAvoy
as Guard (uncredited)
Charles R. Moore
as McGinty's Valet (uncredited)
Steffi Duna
as The Dancing Girl
Jean Phillips
as New Manicurist (uncredited)
Walter Soderling
as Election Official at Laundry (uncredited)
Kay Stewart
as First Manicurist (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
as Governor's Secretary (uncredited)
Paul Newlan
as Ugly Prisoner Demanding Quiet (uncredited)
Sammy Blum
as Bartender (uncredited)
Richard Carle
as Dr. Jonas J. Jarvis - Card Player in Cantina (uncredited)
Harry Rosenthal
as Louie - The Boss' Bodyguard
Thurston Hall
as Mr. Maxwell
Sylvia Andrew
as Bit Role (uncredited)
Lee Shumway
as Mike - Cop (uncredited)
Robert Warwick
as Opposition Speaker (uncredited)
Brian Donlevy
as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
Libby Taylor
as Bessy - The Maid
Esther Howard
as Madame Juliette La Jolla
William Benedict
as Farm Boy (uncredited)
Wanda McKay
as Bit Role (uncredited)
Victor Potel
as Cook (uncredited)
Larry Steers
as Guest at Election Celebration (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
as Voting Registrar (uncredited)
Allyn Joslyn
as George
George Melford
as Senior Senator (uncredited)
Emory Parnell
as Policeman at Soup Kitchen (uncredited)
Pat West
as Pappia Saunders - Bail Bondsman (uncredited)
William Demarest
as Skeeters - The Politician
