The Great McGinty 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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paths by which the ambitious get to run their own show, but back in 1940, when The Great McGinty came out, it was very new hat indeed; the opening credits...
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(1939), The Great McGinty (1940) and Wake Island (1942). For his role as the sadistic Sergeant Markoff in Beau Geste, he was nominated for the Academy...
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McGinty is a surname of Irish origin. McGinty may also refer to: McGinty (horse), a New Zealand racehorse McGinty's Department Store in Neosho, Missouri;...
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Christmas in July (film) (category Great Depression films)
writer-director, after The Great McGinty (1940). Dr. Maxford is thoroughly exasperated; he is supposed to announce on national radio the winners of a slogan...
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Archived from the original on May 16, 2022. Retrieved September 24, 2022. "The Great McGinty (1940)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on March...
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especially his role in The Great McGinty. Boris is a spy from the fictional nation of Pottsylvania, and takes orders from the strongman known as Fearless...
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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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Akim Tamiroff reprise their roles from Sturges' 1940 film The Great McGinty. Set against the backdrop of World War II-era America, its plot follows a wayward...
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Edward Bennett Close. She was the granddaughter of C.W. Post (1854–1914) whose Postum Cereal Company was the predecessor of the General Foods Corporation...
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