The Great McGinty
film by Sturges [1940]
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The Great McGinty is a 1940 American satirical comedy film directed by Preston Sturges. The film tells the story of a hobo who rises through the ranks of corrupt politics, eventually becoming a governor, before ultimately rejecting the corruption. Sturges won an Academy Award for his screenplay for this film, which was the first in a series of satirical comedies he made in the early 1940s that targeted various American institutions.12
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