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The Great McGinty

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The Great McGinty	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Great McGinty is a 1940 Screwball Comedy, the first film directed by Preston Sturges.In a bar in an unnamed Latin American country, Tommy Thompson (Louis Jean Heydt) is down in the dumps, and is about to commit suicide before Daniel McGinty (Brian Donlevy), the bartender, stops him. Turns out Thompson was once cashier of a bank (before, it's implied, he stole money), and when McGinty poo-poohs this, a dancer (Steffi Duna) who's obviously in love with Tommy sarcastically wonders if McGinty was president of the bank. "Who, me? Nossir...I was governor of a state, baby," he replies.In a Flashback, we see how that came to be; McGinty was initially a bum, until he went to a soup kitchen one night and heard about a scheme to make money. He was directed to Skeeters (William Demarest), a political hack, who told him he could make $2 to vote for the mayor, as long as he asked for "Bill" at the voting place. McGinty asked him if he could make more money for voting more, and Skeeters, thinking McGinty a nut, said yes. So, McGinty voted 37 times, to the amazement of Skeeters. He brings McGinty to the Boss (Akim Tamiroff), who runs the mayor's office and in general runs the political machine in the town. McGinty is thoroughly unimpressed, and even belligerent, but while the Boss doesn't appreciate the belligerence, he thinks McGinty has a certain style, so he hires him to collect "protection" money.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })McGinty gradually works his way up to alderman, and when the current mayor gets indicted for graft, The Boss decides McGinty might make a fine mayor. There's one catch, though; he has to get married. McGinty has no intention of doing this ("My parents were married!"), but his secretary, Catherine (Muriel Angelus), thinks they can have a Marriage of Convenience; he can become mayor, and she now has support for her two children by her previous marriage. At first just amiable companions, they gradually fall in love. But while she's been accepting of the graft McGinty participates in, she thinks he ought to use his office for the public good, like ending sweatshops and child labor and so forth. He refuses at first, but his conscience starts to nag at him, especially when he's able to make the leap from mayor to governor. This, of course, puts him on a collision course with the Boss.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })With this film, Sturges became the first screenwriter who became a director, thereby paving the way for other writers like John Huston, Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Billy Wilder. He did so by agreeing to sell his screenplay to the studio for $1 on the condition he direct it (he was eventually paid $10 for it). The movie ended up being a big hit, and Sturges won his first and only Academy Award for it, for Best Original Screenplay.Donlevy and Tamiroff would reprise their characters for a brief appearance in Sturges' 1944 comedy The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.
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The Great McGinty / int_19660a62	comment	Non-Specifically Foreign: The Boss is played by one of classic Hollywood's kings of this trope, Akim Tamiroff (born to an Armenian family in Georgia while it was still part of the Russian Empire).
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The Great McGinty / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Great McGinty / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: As mentioned above, the movie starts in a bar until McGinty tells his story, and it ends in the same bar.
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The Great McGinty / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Great McGinty / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: McGinty and The Boss start to fight and wrestle in the back of the limo, and then we immediately cut to the chauffeur complaining to The Boss' bodyguard about his girl troubles.
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The Great McGinty / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
The Great McGinty / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: There is idealism if you look for it, but mostly, this definitely tilts on the cynical side. Being a corrupt criminal sent McGinty to the governor's mansion; turning honest destroyed his life.
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The Great McGinty / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
The Great McGinty / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: McGinty, who was pushed up by The Boss as a fake reformer, actually decides to become a real reformer.
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The Great McGinty / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
The Great McGinty / int_45cd286c	comment	Corrupt Politician: All of them. Deciding not to be this is what brings about McGinty's downfall.
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The Great McGinty / int_4d45aa06	type	Banana Republic
The Great McGinty / int_4d45aa06	comment	Banana Republic: The opening title card uses these exact words to describe wherever it is that McGinty has wound up turning bar.
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The Great McGinty / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Great McGinty / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: The Boss, though McGinty often tests his affability.
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The Great McGinty / int_585db628	type	Vote Early, Vote Often
The Great McGinty / int_585db628	comment	Vote Early, Vote Often: McGinty votes for the mayor 37 times.
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The Great McGinty / int_5cd4cebb	type	No Badass to His Valet
The Great McGinty / int_5cd4cebb	comment	No Badass to His Valet: Deconstructed. Initially, when McGinty cracks wise to The Boss, slaps him back when slapped, and snarls "get yer finger out of my face", The Boss is delighted by how tough and brash he is, and gains an appreciation for the man as a roughneck who can get things done. Once he actually becomes The Boss's partner, McGinty's insults and guff become the second biggest source of conflict between them (the first being his change of heart), and lead to constant physical squabbling.
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The Great McGinty / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Great McGinty / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: McGinty, as revealed in the title card. It doesn't last very long, though.
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The Great McGinty / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
The Great McGinty / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One:
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The Great McGinty / int_629fa757	type	Perfectly Arranged Marriage
The Great McGinty / int_629fa757	comment	Perfectly Arranged Marriage: As mentioned above, McGinty only marries Catherine grudgingly, because The Boss tells him they need the women vote, and Catherine is willing to help. But they end up falling in love. Played with, however, in that while McGinty still loves Catherine he ends up having to leave her to avoid prosecution. He does make sure she and her children are well provided for before he leaves.
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The Great McGinty / int_a3509d95	type	The Password Is Always "Swordfish"
The Great McGinty / int_a3509d95	comment	The Password Is Always "Swordfish": McGinty lets the watcher at each polling place know who he is by greeting them with, "Hello, Bill", and they supply his name and address to the officials there.
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The Great McGinty / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Great McGinty / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: The Boss is trying to explain to McGinty why he should get married:
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The Great McGinty / int_b7bc7d28	type	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
The Great McGinty / int_b7bc7d28	comment	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: While The Boss is explaining his philosophy of life and how he came to make it in America, McGinty keeps getting distracted by the limousine they're riding in, wondering why it's so quiet.
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The Great McGinty / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Great McGinty / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: McGinty ranges from Unscrupulous to Nominal and back again.
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The Great McGinty / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
The Great McGinty / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: McGinty stops a banker from killing himself at the beginning of the film.
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The Great McGinty / int_ca7ec334	type	Two Lines, No Waiting
The Great McGinty / int_ca7ec334	comment	Two Lines, No Waiting: Subverted; despite what the title card seems to promise, we don't hear Tommy's story, we only hear McGinty's.
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The Great McGinty / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
The Great McGinty / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Boss.
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The Great McGinty / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
The Great McGinty / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: McGinty and The Boss seem to have settled into this relationship by the end of the film (out of necessity, since they're both fugitives).
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The Great McGinty / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
The Great McGinty / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: McGinty describes the fights he has with The Boss as "brannigans".
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The Great McGinty / int_f8961fd8	type	Fashion-Victim Villain
The Great McGinty / int_f8961fd8	comment	Fashion-Victim Villain: In-universe; however many of those seventy-four dollars McGinty spent on that buffalo-checked suit and bowler hat, it was too much. It wouldn't even look quite so ridiculous if it wasn't on a man of his size and frame.
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The Great McGinty / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Great McGinty / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Whenever McGinty gets The Boss riled, they start fighting.
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