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...
Facts
Awards
Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
Production
Paramount Pictures
Original language
English
Trailer
Stills
Festival History
- Locarno International Film Festival 1989 generic
- Academy Awards 1941 academy_award
