The Great McGinty

film by Sturges [1940]

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In Preston Sturges: Films of the early 1940s
The result was The Great McGinty (1940), which came to be widely regarded as one of the most original comedies of the 1940s. Brian Donlevy portrayed a hobo-turned-rising politician who ultimately casts corruption aside. Sturges won an Academy Award for his script. The Great McGinty was the first…
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