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About
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...
Theatrical
Aug 23, 1940
Theaters
3
Quotes
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HE'LL TAKE YOU...and MAKE YOU LAUGH!
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Two-Fisted Fun and Laughter Await
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It's Two-Fisted FUN! A fightin fool gives you laughter of a lifetime...!
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Cast
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Brian Donlevy
Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
M
Muriel Angelus
Catharine McGinty
A
Akim Tamiroff
The Boss
A
Allyn Joslyn
George
W
William Demarest
Skeeters - The Politician
L
Louis Jean Heydt
Tommy Thompson
H
Harry Rosenthal
Louie - The Boss' Bodyguard
A
Arthur Hoyt
Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast
L
Libby Taylor
Bessy - The Maid
T
Thurston Hall
Mr. Maxwell
S
Steffi Duna
The Dancing Girl
E
Esther Howard
Madame Juliette La Jolla
F
Frank Moran
The Boss' Chauffeur
J
Jimmy Conlin
The Lookout - At Felgman's
D
Dewey Robinson
Benny Felgman
M
Mary Thomas
Mary - Catherine's Girl, Age 6
D
Drew Roddy
Donnie - Catherine's Boy, Age 9
S
Sheila Sheldon
Mary - Catherine's Girl, Age 11
G
George Anderson
Charlie - Cashier (uncredited)
S
Sylvia Andrew
Bit Role (uncredited)
