The Great McGinty
“It's Two-Fisted FUN! A fightin' fool gives you laughter of a lifetime..!”
Comedy
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...
VIBE
A sharp, cynical look at the American dream gone sour. It's a darkly funny, fast-talking ride through political corruption, where ambition and a good hustle can take you far, but maybe not where you want to go.
cynicalwittysatiricaldarkly comedicsteadypre-code comedyscrewball elementsperiod pieceblack and whitecorruptionambitionpolitical satiremorality
politicsgreat depressionblack and whitedepression erabanana republichoboelection fraud
