The Great McGinty

Name: The Great McGinty
Director: Preston Sturges
Released: 1940
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, Allyn Joslyn, William Demarest

1940 · 82 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 4,693 VOTES · DIR. Preston Sturges

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...

Dialogue Timeline — 1,147 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:45 ([Music:] Lively mariachi music)

00:05:12 Get outta here. Somebody lit a firecracker. I'll bring him out.

00:07:41 - What do you get for repeating? - Who said anything about repeating?

00:11:40 You wouldn't care for that?

00:14:58 And me, I happen to be somebody you'd better not forget the next time you see me.

00:17:33 She runs a kind of a fortune-telling parlour.

00:20:34 I showed one guy today he needed protection, I got enough left to show you.

00:23:15 Yes. You was just a cheap crook.

00:25:50 What do you think of McGinty?

00:28:19 He wants me to get married right away. How do you like that?

00:31:15 He don't want the boys to eat everything up before he gets there.

00:33:55 There's no reason why I should, is there?

00:36:49 Here's the balcony.

00:41:36 - You'll be all right now? - I never felt better in my life.

00:45:09 You worry too much about business and contracts and the flaws in them.

00:47:54 Stop that and you too, Mary.

00:51:00 You know, why don't you er...

00:54:00 I wasn't married to you, then, Dan.

00:57:06 The least you can do, friends

01:01:04 Congratulations, Mr Governor McGinty.

01:03:23 After I spent 400 grand to put you in here.

01:06:34 Well, suppose it is. It's worth the effort, isn't it?

01:09:33 We'll beat them if it takes 20 years.

01:14:36 Dan, wherever you go...

Cast & Characters

Brian Donlevy Dan McGinty Muriel Angelus Catherine McGinty Akim Tamiroff The Boss Allyn Joslyn George William Demarest Skeeters Louis Jean Heydt Tommy Thompson Harry Rosenthal Louie - The Bodyguard Arthur Hoyt Mayor Wilfred Tillinghast Libby Taylor Bessy - The Colored Maid Thurston Hall Mr. Maxwell

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,147

Dialogue density14.0 lines / min

First line00:00:45

Final line01:14:36

Production Record

DirectorPreston Sturges

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes4,693