The Great McGinty

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...

Cast

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

Libby Taylor

Bessy - The Maid

Thurston Hall

Mr. Maxwell