The Great McGinty (1940)

It's Two-Fisted FUN! A fightin' fool gives you laughter of a lifetime..!

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...

Genres: Comedy

Stars: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, Allyn Joslyn, William Demarest