THE GREAT MCGINTY (SPECIAL EDITION) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1940
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: Brand New 4K Masterl From Preston Sturges, the legendary writer/director of Christmas in July, The Lady Eve, The Palm Beach Story and Unfaithfully Yours comes this classic comedy about an opportunist who turns corruption into a promising political career, but struggles to stay on top when he tries to go honest. Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy, The Quatermass Xperiment) is a hungry hobo who wows the ballot-stuffers by voting 37 times in an elecion for Mayor. He immediately becomes the protégé of 'The Boss' (Akim Tamiroff, Affer the Fox), who guides and schemes McGinty to Alderman, Mayor and ultimately Governor with a series of payoffs, kickbacks and bribes. In trouble, McGinty flees the country and winds up (or down) as a bartender in a seedy Cenfral American dive where the tale has a gleeful surprise ending. The Great McGinty, a high-spirited comedy of rogues and rascals, won the 1941 Oscar® for Best Original Screenplay (Sturges).
• Cast: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, Allyn Joslyn, William Demarest, Louis Jean Heydt, Harry Rosenthal, Arthur Hoyt, Libby Taylor, Thurston Hall, Steffi Duna, Esther Howard, Frank Moran, Jimmy Conlin, Dewey Robinson, Richard Carle, Donnie Kerr, Mary Thomas, Drew Roddy, Sheila Sheldon, George Anderson, Sylvia Andrew, William 'Billy' Benedict, Sammy Blum, Ed Cassidy, Pauline Drake, William Edmunds, Betty Farrington, Byron Foulger, Duke Green, Harry Hayden, Lorimer Johnston, Charles McAvoy, Wanda McKay, George Melford, Charles R. Moore, Bert Moorhouse, Paul Newlan, Enrique Orona, Emory Parnell, Jean Phillips, Victor Potel, C.L. Sherwood, Lee Shumway, Walter Soderling, Larry Steers, Kay Stewart, Dorothy Vernon, Bess Wade, Robert Warwick, Pat West, Preston Sturges
• Director: Preston Sturges
• Runtime: 1:22
• Company: Paramount Pictures, Kino Lorber Studio Classics
• Media Format: Movie