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...
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The Great McGinty was released in 1940 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 40 reviews, giving The Great McGinty (1940) an average rating of 74%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 76%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 70%.
With a score of 74%, The Great McGinty is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1940, which stands at 63%.
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