THE GREAT MCGINTY

'''The Great McGinty''' is a 1940 Hollywood comedy movie written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Brian Donlevy. It was Sturges's first film as a director, and he sold his script for it to Paramount Pictures for just $1 on condition he could direct the film.

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Plot outline

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Plot outline

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.
Both Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff, who played the machine's corrupt boss, reprised their roles in Sturges' 1944 comedy ''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek''.

Awards

★ 1940 - Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay

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