The Great McGinty
Aug 01, 1940 | IMDB 6.9
82 min Watch NowComedy
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...
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Buck Privates Come Home
Comin' Round the Mountain
Dance with Me, Henry
Here Come the Co-Eds
Hit the Ice
Keep 'Em Flying
In the Navy
The Naughty Nineties
The Noose Hangs High
Ride 'Em Cowboy
The Time of Their Lives
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
State of the Union
Frankenweenie
A Chump at Oxford
SIMILAR MOVIES
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
IMDB 5.4 | Apr , 1953
Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
IMDB 6 | Aug , 1950
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid.Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
IMDB 6.3 | Mar , 1951
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
IMDB 6.1 | Feb , 1955
Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
IMDB 6.5 | May , 1949
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).Buck Privates Come Home
IMDB 6.3 | Apr , 1947
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.Comin' Round the Mountain
IMDB 5.8 | Jul , 1951
Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin, Dorothy McCoy. They find out that Wilbert's grandfather, Squeeze-box McCoy, had treasure hidden in the hills of Kentucky, which they go to find.Dance with Me, Henry
IMDB 5.1 | Dec , 1956
Bud and Lou are the owners of the amusement park Kiddieland. Bud, a compulsive gambler, gets in trouble with the mob, and Lou finds himself struggling to keep his adopted children. When Bud is forced to make a shady deal, Lou tries to arrange a deal with the DA, but winds up framed for murder.Here Come the Co-Eds
IMDB 5.7 | Feb , 1945
Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.Hit the Ice
IMDB 5.9 | Jun , 1943
After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers, where they meet an old friend and his band.Keep 'Em Flying
IMDB 6 | Nov , 1941
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for.In the Navy
IMDB 6.3 | May , 1941
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.The Naughty Nineties
IMDB 6.6 | Jun , 1945
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.The Noose Hangs High
IMDB 6.8 | Apr , 1948
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.Ride 'Em Cowboy
IMDB 5.9 | Nov , 1941
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.The Time of Their Lives
IMDB 7.1 | Aug , 1946
Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
IMDB 6.1 | Oct , 1947
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.State of the Union
IMDB 6.7 | Apr , 1948
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.Frankenweenie
IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 1984
When young Victor's pet dog Sparky (who stars in Victor's home-made monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them (and his parents) that despite his appearance, Sparky's still the good loyal friend he's always been.A Chump at Oxford
IMDB 6.8 | Jan , 1940
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.