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	The Great McGinty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great McGinty is a 1940 Hollywood comedy movie written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy.
		Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy) is a tramp who impresses a local political boss by voting 37 times in a rigged mayoral election.
		McGinty becomes one of the boss's enforcers, then his political protégé, winning the mayor's job as a "reform" candidate, and going on to the governor's mansion before a change of heart compels him to take public service seriously.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Great_McGinty (180 words)

	The Great McGinty (1940 b 81') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The boss asks McGinty if he wants to be mayor and tells him to get married, because women have the vote now.
		At home McGinty finds Ruth with George (Allyn Joslyn) and learns that she goes to dinner with him, who used to propose to her.
		McGinty runs for governor, and the politician speaks for him as an opponent accuses him of graft.
	www.san.beck.org /MM/1940/GreatMcGinty.html (445 words)

	Great McGinty, The Review (1940)
		One, Daniel McGinty (Brian Donlevy), was dishonest all his life except for one crazy minute, the other, Tommy (Louis Jean Heydt), was honest all his life except for just one crazy minute and they both had to leave their country.
		The Great McGinty was the first of writer and director Preston Sturges idiosyncratic comedies of the forties, although this one is more of a drama, with the Sturges trademarks just beginning to make themselves clear.
		It is Catherine who sows the seeds of McGinty's downfall, not because she does the wrong thing, but because she does the right thing in persuading him to make a stand against all the greed and corruption that's made him the man he is today.
	www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1640 (632 words)

	The Very Best DVD : The Great McGinty
		Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy) is a tramp who impresses a local crime boss (Akim Tamiroff) by voting 37 times in a rigged mayoral election.
		Preston Sturges was one of the great directors.
		The Great McGinty is one Dan McGinty, a down-and-out, yet tough-as-nails tramp who finds opportunity handed to him on a silver platter when a the boss of a big political machine sees McGinty's potential, and taps him to be one of his many henchmen in a statewide graft ring.
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	The Great McGinty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		McGinty quickly moves up the ladder of graft, becoming an alderman and then mayor.
		He seems to have no problem with the ethics of his situation and when the boss tells him he'll need a wife to win an election, he agrees to a marriage of convenience with his secretary.
		What is most interesting is that McGinty never goes through a cathartic conversion as one would expect from a Hollywood film.
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	Movie Info for The Great McGinty on MSN Movies
		Brian Donlevy plays Dan McGinty, a Chicago hobo who is hired by local political bosses as a "professional voter", casting ballots under a variety of assumed names in various districts.
		McGinty chalks up $74 worth of votes, and when local ward heeler William Demarest can't pony up, McGinty takes direct action by trying to beat up The Boss (Akim Tamiroff).
		Though he never goes so far as to fall in love with his "arranged" wife, Donlevy is fond of both her and her children by a previous marriage, and for their sake he begins to reform--much to the dismay of the Boss.
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		McGinty has to stop the man from shooting himself, and when he has dragged him back out to the bar, the man and the dancer listen to a "if you think you've had it rough" story from McGinty.
		McGinty falls first for the kids and then for Sarah, who persuades Governor Elect McGinty to step on the untrod path of honesty.
		THE GREAT MCGINTY was also the first of that greatest unrivaled run of successful satires in American Motion Pictures.
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	Hail the Conquered Hero - New York Times
		Appropriately, the first person to win in that category was Preston Sturges, who won in 1941 for "The Great McGinty." The movie was the first he both wrote and directed -- and at a time when such "hyphenates" simply did not exist in American pictures.
		"The Great McGinty" was a critical and commercial success in 1940, the same peak year as "The Grapes of Wrath," "His Girl Friday," "The Great Dictator," "Rebecca," "The Philadelphia Story," "The Shop Around the Corner" and a number of other movies that went on to become classics.
		Most of the great directors had started shooting in their 20's, but Sturges didn't begin directing until he was entering his 40's.
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	MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: The Great McGinty
		McGinty is a bum who party hacks decide might just be the ticket for mayor of the city.
		McGinty enjoys every minute of his rise to power and could care less for reform politics.
		THE GREAT MCGINTY is not bad as first films go and it will prepare first time viewers of Sturges' work for the wonderful comedies that came after it.
	www.lib.unc.edu /house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=2060 (195 words)

	Preston Sturges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the remainder of the 1930s, Sturges operated under the strict auspices of the studio system, working on a string of scripts, some of which were shelved.
		This experience built his resolve to take control of his own projects, which he finally accomplished in 1939 by trading his screenplay for The Great McGinty (written six years earlier) in exchange for the chance to direct it.
		Three of Sturges' films, Christmas in July, The Great McGinty and Remember the Night, were restaged for NBC's Lux Video Theater.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Preston_Sturges (1895 words)

	Sturges Emerges
		Morgan's Creek is a town in the State of which Dan McGinty is Governor and it is McGinty and the Boss, assayed by Donlevy and Tamiroff again, who insist upon capitalizing on Trudy's remarkable multiple delivery and freeing Norval with honors.
		The Great Moment opens the presentation, though it is by far the lesser of the two films, a minor Sturges anomaly possibly imposed on him by the studio.
		The Great Moment is a rather clever satire of the entire genre of biographies of great personages.
	www.filmsondisc.com /Features/sturges/sturges.htm (3070 words)

	The Great McGinty
		The Great McGinty is nevertheless a tale of domesticity as much as of politics.
		McGinty sacrifices for Catherine too, standing up against The Boss and his grand plans for new and improved graft the day after winning the governorship.
		The Great McGinty was released in August 1940, just a month after the Democratic Convention at Chicago Stadium where Roosevelt was nominated to run for a record third term.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/05/35/great_mcginty.html (997 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Preston Sturges
		Preston Sturges (August 29, 1898-August 6, 1959), originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a screenwriter and director born in Chicago.
		Known for his comedic contribution to American film, he was one of Hollywood's great filmmakers.
		Famously, he supposedly sold his screenplay for "The Great McGinty" to Paramount Pictures for $1, in exchange for the director's job.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Preston-Sturges (1517 words)

	McGinty.html
		At the time McGinty family researchers were doing their research, the abundance of records was not as available as they are today and many assumptions regarding the family turned out to be inaccurate.
		From Winchester to Roanoke the Great Wagon Road and the Great Valley Road were the same road, but at Roanoke, the Wagon Road went through the Staunton Gap and on south to North Carolina and beyond, whereas the Valley Pike continued southwest to the Long Island of the Holston, now Kingsport.
		Previous McGinty researchers have stated that John's wife was Sarah and that her name showed up in land records in Mecklenburg, but I have found no land records mentioning a Sarah or a Rebecca.
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	Amazon.com: Great Mcginty / Movie: Video: Brian Donlevy,Muriel Angelus,Akim Tamiroff,Allyn Joslyn,William ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
		Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy) is a tramp who impresses a local crime boss (Akim Tamiroff) by voting 37 times in a rigged mayoral election.
		Muriel Angelus as Catherine McGinty, Akim Tamiroff as The Boss, Allyn Joslyn as George, William Demarest as The Politician, Louis Jean Heydt as Tommy Thompson, Harry Rosenthal as Louie (bodyguard), Arthur Hoyt as Mayor Wilfred T. Tillinghast, Libby Taylor as Bessy (maid), Thurston Hall as Mr.
	www.amazon.com /Great-Mcginty-Movie-Preston-Sturges/dp/6300987493 (2126 words)

	DVD Times - The Great McGinty
		And it starts as it means to go on: the “great” McGinty of the title is bum-turned-state governor, played by Brian Donlevy, who cynically rises to the top with a permanent sneer and continual tough guy attitude.
		Even more surprising is the use of that great lost actress Muriel Angelus (this was her last picture; she retired at the age of 31 to start a family and never returned to the industry).
		As for extras, The Great McGinty comes with only its theatrical trailer as accompaniment, though it is currently only available as part of the Written and Directed by Preston Sturges boxed set, and therefore also comes with six other Sturges’ feature and a glossy 20-page booklet which contains potted biographies for various cast members.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=58260 (943 words)

	The MadCow Morning News
		McGinty is a homeless bum who learns the city’s Boss is paying $2 to everyone who votes in the election.
		McGinty then distinguishes himself by voting thirty-five times, whereupon the bemused Boss summons McGinty to an audience, where he tells him his ambitious display qualifies him to be a candidate in the next election… on the ticket of the Reform Party.
		Puzzled, McGinty asks the Boss how he can guarantee the nomination of the Reform Party, when he, the Boss, is the man behind the incumbent party.
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	Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat News Spring 2003: Reduction in Great Lakes Pollutants - Rendell Taps Kathleen McGinty for ...
		The Great Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy is an agreement between Canada and the United States to reduce or eliminate persistent, bioaccumulative toxic substances from the the Great Lakes basin.
		Kathleen McGinty, the former senior White House aide is Rendell’s nominee for Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection.
		Kathleen McGinty’s credentials include a stint as Director of the White House Office on Environmental Policy before being appointed by President Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to Chair the White House Council on Environmental Quality.Until June of 2001, McGinty served as Counselor to former Vice President Al Gore.
	www.glhabitat.org /news/glnews288.html (588 words)

	THE Great McGinty \| Buy cheap Video with low price
		But, I do love two shots in this movie, one is where McGinty is calling on a 'Interior Decorator' (a lug) to get him to pay some protection money, he rings the bell and Sturges cuts to him as seen from the inside of the glass door, its just a cool little shot.
		The second is the shot from the interior of a moving call as McGinty exchanges punches with the Boss in the backseat as the car rolls up to a Hotel.
		Brian Donlevy, as McGinty, is adequate, but hardly as appealing as some of the actors Sturges would work with later on.
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		He was the first Hollywood writer to direct his own script, so that the credit 'written and directed by' first appeared alongside his name The Great McGinty.
		The Great McGinty: Sometimes known in the UK as “Down Went McGinty”, this was Sturges first opportunity to direct after writing scripts for a decade.
		The Great Moment: In a major change from his previous successful comedies, Sturges applied his talents to a dramatic, but not without some humour, biography of an American dental surgeon WTG Morton (Joel McCrea) was one of the pioneers in the use of anaesthetics in dentistry, but gained little reward for his endeavours.
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	HOME VIDEO/NEW RELEASES; Rollicking Rogues - New York Times
		''The Great McGinty'' was the great Preston Sturges's first showing as a director, and a happy occasion it was.
		Sturges populated his fable with a great gaggle of grafters.
		When McGinty's noble-minded wife leads him onto the paths of righteousness, the boss yells, ''Didn't you never hear of Samson and Delilah, Sodom and Gomorrah?'' To which gallant McGinty replies, ''I told you you to leave her out of it.''
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	The Great McGinty (1940) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Plot Outline: Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics.
		Akim Tamiroff is hysterically funny as "The Chief," especially when he's marvelling at McGinty (Brian Donlevy) because of McGinty's audacity in being so obstinate.
		Sturges himself was acclaimed for his audacity in being a writer-director, paving the way for other Hollywood writers (including John Huston and Billy Wilder) to graduate to directing.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0032554 (365 words)

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		Nathan does a great job – he is definitely the most thorough hygienist I’ve ever had work on me. I’ve been coming here for years – the reason?
		McGinty was the “lucky” one who got me first and he did have some problems to solve with me, but he fixed my teeth up just great!
		Debbie is so great as a first contact.
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	MMI Special Report - Preston Sturges On Video
		Critics of writer-director Preston Sturges are quick to point out that his hey-day in Hollywood (Beginning with his 1940 Oscar win for writing "The Great McGinty") was virtually over by 1944 when he was nominated for writing "Hail The Conquering Hero" and "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek".
		"The Great McGinty" was about the spectacular rise and fall of a naïve drifter.
		By the time the Oscar nominations for both of these blockbuster films were announced in 1945, Sturges was off the Paramount lot, as a result of the one flop of his career to date; "The Great Moment" which had been shelved for two years before the studio decided to release it anyway.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/sturges.html (573 words)

	The Great McGinty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy) is a tramp impresses a local crime boss by voting times in a rigged mayoral election.
		McGinty one of the boss's enforcers then his protégé winning the mayor's job as a candidate and going on to the governor's before a change of heart compels him take public service seriously.
		There are several different CD editions of these same classic recordings by Casals, but none are priced lower than this new set from Naxos.
	www.freeglossary.com /The_Great_McGinty (357 words)

	The Official Preston Sturges Site - Biography By
		Under a new contract with Paramount wrote Remember the Night, sold his 1932 The Great McGinty script to the studio for a dollar (the Legal Department upped it to ten dollars) and, relentless perseverance finally paying off, was named its director.
		In 1940 alone he wrapped The Great McGinty, wrote and directed Christmas in July, opened his new restaurant, The Players, at 8225 Sunset, and wrote and directed The Lady Eve.
		In 1941 he won an Oscar for The Great McGinty in the Best Original Screenplay slot, wrote and directed Sullivan’s Travels during which his first son, Solomon Sturges IV, was born, wrote The Palm Beach Story and began its direction in November.
	www.prestonsturges.com /biography.html (2543 words)

	eBay - VHS: The Great McGinty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In a dive bar south of the border, a begrudging bartender, McGinty (Brian Donlevy) tries to assuage an embezzling bank clerk on the lam by relating his own reasons for fleeing to the banana republic.
		A tip-off that there's money in voting for the corrupt incumbent mayor leads McGinty to the belligerent mob Boss who runs the city, and is so taken with McGinty's street wise charms that he takes him under his wing.
		When the mayor is exposed by the press, the Boss proposes McGinty as the reform party candidate complete with a quickly arranged marriage to his sweet-faced secretary, Catherine.
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