“It would be difficult to find a more hilariously pessimistic take on the subject of government corruption than 1940’s THE GREAT MCGINTY … It’s far too uproarious to be upsetting.”
—A.V. Club

“Sturges’ first film as writer/director, a wonderfully dry satire which takes the American political system apart.”
—Time Out

THE GREAT MCGINTY used to seem like a baroque parody of political corruption, but the world has caught up to it. Nonetheless, it is a masterful comedy about a drunk roustabout (Brian Donlevy), pulled from his barstool and sent out to vote in every precinct in the city, who becomes a political power-broker himself.