

The Great McGinty (1940)
Overview
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...
Overview
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...

Brian Donlevy
Daniel 'Dan' McGinty

Muriel Angelus
Catharine McGinty

Akim Tamiroff
The Boss

Allyn Joslyn
George

William Demarest
Skeeters - The Politician

Louis Jean Heydt
Tommy Thompson

Harry Rosenthal
Louie - The Boss' Bodyguard

Arthur Hoyt
Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast