Released:
1940-08-01

Overview:
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...

Director:
Preston Sturges

Runtime:
1h 22min

Genre:
Comedy

• Cast:
• 
  Brian Donlevy
  as
  Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
• 
  Muriel Angelus
  as
  Catharine McGinty
• 
  Akim Tamiroff
  as
  The Boss
• 
  Allyn Joslyn
  as
  George
• 
  William Demarest
  as
  Skeeters - The Politician