August 15, 1940 (NYC premiere) August 23 (general)
Running time
83 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$350,000
The Great McGinty is a 1940 American political satire comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff and featuring William Demarest and (in her final screen appearance) 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.[1] Sturges received an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
For the U.K. release, the film was retitled Down Went McGinty, alluding to the 1889 song.
^Spoto, Donald (1990). Madcap: The Life of Preston Sturges. Little, Brown. p. 150. ISBN 0-316-80726-5.
TheGreatMcGinty is a 1940 American political satire comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff and...
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suicide by drowning: "Down went McGinty / to the bottom of the sea". Film historian Jeff Jaeckle has described McGinty's actions as "conform(ing) to contemporaneous...
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Sturges and was the last of his scripts shot by another director, as Sturges began his own directorial career the same year with TheGreatMcGinty. Lee Leander...
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role in the television sitcom Leave It to Beaver, originally broadcast from 1957 to 1963. He played the protagonist Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, the younger...
from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay. See also the Academy...
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appeared in "TheGreatMcGinty" episode of Lux Video Theatre, appearing opposite Nancy Gates and William Schallert. Her last film was The Three Runaways...
subgenre of the romantic comedy genre that became popular during theGreat Depression, beginning in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1950s...
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