Essential Cinema: Four by Preston Sturges
THE GREAT MCGINTY
Directed by Preston Sturges
USA, 1940, 1h 23min, DCP
AFS Cinema
6406 N I-35 Suite 3100 Austin, TX 78752
Pricing
$14 evening / $11.50 matinee (available M-F for shows before 5 PM)
$4 discounts for AFS MAKE & WATCH members. Free for LOVE & Impact Circle members.
Discounts for AISD educators and local high school & college students are available at the box office with a valid school ID.
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“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.
