The Great McGinty (Blu-ray)
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The Great McGinty
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 22 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: January 14, 2020
- Originally Released: 1940
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus & Akim Tamiroff | |
Performer: | Allyn Joslyn, William Demarest, Louis Jean Heydt, Harry Rosenthal, Arthur Hoyt, Thurston Hall, Steffi Duna, Esther Howard & Dewey Robinson | |
Directed by | Preston Sturges | |
Edited by | Hugh Bennett | |
Screenwriting by | Preston Sturges | |
Composition by | Friedrich Hollaender | |
Art Direction by | Hans Dreier & Earl Hedrick | |
Produced by | Paul Jones | |
Director of Photography: | William C. Mellor |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1940 -
Best Original Screenplay: Preston Sturges
Entertainment Reviews:
Sturges displays plenty of ability in accentuating both the comedy and dramatic elements of his material, withal maintaining a consistent pace in the unreeling.
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Variety
As a political comedy, it's far-fetched but certainly engaging.
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Film4
The Great McGinty is not a great picture, a significant picture, or an important one. It's just thumping good entertainment.
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California Eagle
Rating: 4/5 --
You won't make a mistake, believe us, if you stuff the ballot-box for The Great McGinty.
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New York Times
Rating: A- --
It's the kind of ironical film Capra wouldn't or couldn't make.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A wonderfully dry satire.
Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
Deliciously biting political satire.
Movie Mom
Product Description:
Preston Sturges graduated from writing hit comedies to writing and directing them with his cautionary tale of corruption and honesty, THE GREAT MCGINTY. In a dive bar south of the border, a begrudging bartender, McGinty (Brian Donlevy) tries to assuage an embezzling bank clerk on the lam by relating his own reasons for fleeing to the banana republic. He was mayor of a big city, and from this unsuspected revelation ensues a sweeping look at McGinty's seedy journey from tough-guy bum to mob lackey. A tip-off that there's money in voting for the corrupt incumbent mayor leads McGinty to the belligerent mob Boss who runs the city, and is so taken with McGinty's street wise charms that he takes him under his wing. When the mayor is exposed by the press, the Boss proposes McGinty as the reform party candidate complete with a quickly arranged marriage to his sweet-faced secretary, Catherine. These airtight mob machinations come undone when the good influence of the wise Catherine begins to wear away at McGinty's lifelong bad habits. He vows to work for the people as Sturges' inverted thesis of honesty as the disastrous fatal flaw wreaks comic havoc on this precise and compelling comedy.
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- Sales Rank: 106,623
- UPC: 738329237295
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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