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