The Great McGinty

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces The Great McGinty, 1940.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Great McGinty, 1940.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Great McGinty, 1940.

The bartender's flashback, Brian Donlevy recalling his first encounter with the political machine, inducted by the archetypal "Politician" (William Demarest), early in writer-director Preston Sturges' The Great McGinty, 1940.

Drifter McGinty (Brian Donlevy), having earned a bundle through audacious illicit voting, arrives to meet the duly-impressed "Boss" (Akim Tamiroff), then visiting Juliette (Esther Howard), in The Great McGinty, 1940, written and directed by Preston Sturges.

Having hurriedly married staffer Catherine (Muriel Angelus) to enhance his image, candidate McGinty (Brian Donlevy) gets stroppy with "The Boss" (Akim Tamiroff), then discovers his new asset hasn't revealed everything, in Preston Sturges' The Great McGinty, 1940.

The barkeep (Brian Donlevy, title character), resumes the flashback, meeting with Maxwell (Thurston Hall), while "The Politician" (William Demarest) grumbles with knowing Catherine (Muriel Angelus) and "The Boss" (Akim Tamiroff) replaces the mayor, in Preston Sturges' The Great McGinty, 1940.

A hobo (Brian Donlevy) rises to town mayor when he hooks up with a crooked political boss in Preston Sturges' The Great McGinty (1940).