The read
Critics rate it 28 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 22m.
Synopsis
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 28 points higher than audiences do.
80 audience votes
Key crew
- Preston SturgesWriter
- Friedrich HollaenderOriginal Music Composer
- Preston SturgesDirector
Cast
- Brian DonlevyDaniel 'Dan' McGinty
- Muriel AngelusCatharine McGinty
- Akim TamiroffThe Boss
- Allyn JoslynGeorge
- William DemarestSkeeters - The Politician
- Louis Jean HeydtTommy Thompson
- Harry RosenthalLouie - The Boss' Bodyguard
- Arthur HoytMayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast
- Libby TaylorBessy - The Maid
- Thurston HallMr. Maxwell
- Steffi DunaThe Dancing Girl
- Esther HowardMadame Juliette La Jolla