The Great McGinty – Directorial debut (1940, b/w) for Preston Sturges, who also won an Oscar for writing the screenplay for this political satire: a two-fisted, knuckle-head bum, Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy), gets involved with political graft, makes a marriage of convenience with his secretary (Muriel Angelus), who has two children from a previous marriage, and becomes mayor and then governor before gaining a social conscience through his wife’s counsel and then gets arrested when the earlier graft comes back to bite him; he ends up in South America tending bar with his former political boss (Akim Tamiroff). Look for this one on the late-night movies, but don’t be too concerned if you fall asleep.  

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