The Great McGinty

The Great McGinty is a 1940 political satire comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff and Muriel Angelus.
==Plot==
In a dive south of the border, bartender Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy) stops a young man from committing suicide after a moment of dishonesty, and relates how a moment of honesty brought him down in a flashback. As a young man, McGinty joins a crooked political boss (Akim Tamiroff) and rises from extortionist to alderman. Urged by the boss to marry his secretary (Muriel Angelus) to give respectability to his run for mayor, McGinty agrees, only to fall in love with his wife and decide to do an honest thing for once in his life.
==Cast==
*Brian Donlevy as Daniel McGinty
*Muriel Angelus as Catherine McGinty
*Akim Tamiroff as The Boss
*Allyn Joslyn as George
*William Demarest as Skeeters, 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
Category:1940 films
Category:American films
Category:English-language films
Category:Films
Category:1940s films
Category:American political satire films
Category:Political satire films
Category:American screwball comedy films
Category:Screwball Comedy films
Category:Screwball films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Black-and-white films
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Category:Directorial debut films
Category:Films directed by Preston Sturges