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 $10 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.

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  • August 15,
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    August 23 (general)
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  • 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 $10 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.
  • Der große McGinty ist eine US-amerikanische Filmkomödie von Preston Sturges aus dem Jahr 1940. In Deutschland wurde der Film erstmals am 27. Oktober 1968 gezeigt, als Fernsehpremiere im NDR.
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  • UK theatrical poster
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  • Frederick Hollander
    John Leipold ''(uncredited)''
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  • The Great McGinty
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  • August 15, (NYC premiere) August 23 (general)
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  • 83 minutes
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  • Preston Sturges
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  • 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 $10 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.
  • Der große McGinty ist eine US-amerikanische Filmkomödie von Preston Sturges aus dem Jahr 1940. In Deutschland wurde der Film erstmals am 27. Oktober 1968 gezeigt, als Fernsehpremiere im NDR.
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  • The Great McGinty
  • Der große McGinty
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  • The Great McGinty
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