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Release Date:
August 1, 1940
Original Title:
The Great McGinty
Genres:
Comedy
Production Companies:
Paramount Pictures
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 82
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...
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Art Direction:
A. Earl Hedrick
Hans Dreier
Costume Design:
Edith Head
Director:
Preston Sturges
Director of Photography:
William C. Mellor
Editor:
Hugh Bennett
Executive Producer:
William LeBaron
Makeup Artist:
Frank Thayer
Original Music Composer:
Friedrich Hollaender
Producer:
Buddy G. DeSylva
Set Decoration:
A. E. Freudeman
Writer:
Preston Sturges
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