Watch The Great McGinty (1940) Free Online

Release Date: 1940   Duration: 83 min

Cast: William Demarest, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, Brian Donlevy, Arthur Hoyt, Steffi Duna, Thurston Hall, Louis Jean Heydt, Allyn Joslyn

Categories: Movies, Screwball comedy, Black-and-white, Political satire, Satire, Comedy, Political cinema, Comedy film

The Great McGinty is a 1940 political satire comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff and featuring William Demarest and Muriel Angelus. It was Sturges's first film as a director; he sold the story to Paramount Pictures for just $1 on condition he direct the film. Sturges went on to win the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay. In...  MORE

The Great McGinty is a 1940 political satire comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff and featuring William Demarest and Muriel Angelus. It was Sturges's first film as a director; he sold the story to Paramount Pictures for just $1 on condition he direct the film. Sturges went on to win the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay. In the U.K. the film was retitled Down Went McGinty. LESS