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Preston Sturges, Director • 22 Items / 4 Books, 17 Films
The Great McGinty (1940)
by Preston Sturges
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    Screen: Present Laughter (2 Reviews)
    Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr.
    Hail the Conquering Hero (1944 Film), by Preston Sturges
    1. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944 Film) by Preston Sturges
    2. The Great McGinty (1940 Film) by Preston Sturges
    Commonweal, March 11, 1983, pp. 147-148
  2. Sights and Sounds
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    "The Great McGinty" (2 Reviews)
    Alvah Bessie
    The Great McGinty (1940 Film), by Preston Sturges
    1. The Great McGinty (1940 Film) by Preston Sturges
    2. Pride and Prejudice (1940 Film) by Robert Z. Leonard
    The New Masses, August 27, 1940, pp. 20-21
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    The Screen: No Time for Politics (3 Reviews)
    Philip T. Hartung
    Pastor Hall (1940 Film), by Roy Boulting
    1. Pastor Hall (1940 Film) by Roy Boulting
    2. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939 Film) by Frank Capra
    3. The Great McGinty (1940 Film) by Preston Sturges
    Commonweal, November 1, 1940, pp. 57-58
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    The Current Cinema (3 Reviews)
    Russell Maloney
    The Great Sturges
    1. The Great McGinty (1940 Film) by Preston Sturges
    2. When the Daltons Rode (1940 Film) by George Marshall
    3. Three Faces West (1940 Film) by Bernard Vorhaus
    The New Yorker, August 24, 1940, p. 52
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    For Better, For Worse (4 Reviews)
    Otis Ferguson
    The Ramparts We Watch (1940 Film), by Louis De Rochemont
    1. The Ramparts We Watch (1940 Film) by Louis De Rochemont
    2. The Great McGinty (1940 Film) by Preston Sturges
    3. They Drive by Night (1940 Film) by Raoul Walsh
    4. Time in the Sun (1940 Film) by Sergei M. Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov
    The New Republic, September 30, 1940, p. 448
  6. The Critics
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    A Critic at Large (4 Reviews)
    Hendrik Hertzberg
    Upset Victory
    1. Primary Colors (1998 Film) by Mike Nichols
    2. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939 Film) by Frank Capra
    3. Dave (1993 Film) by Ivan Reitman
    4. The Great McGinty (1940 Film) by Preston Sturges
    The New Yorker, March 23, 1998, pp. 86-90
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    Celluloid Candidates (8 Reviews)
    Matthew Berke
    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939 Film), by Frank Capra
    1. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939 Film) by Frank Capra
    2. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939 Film) by John Ford
    3. The Great McGinty (1940 Film) by Preston Sturges
    4. Advise and Consent (1962 Film) by Otto Preminger
    5. The Candidate (1972 Film) by Michael Ritchie
    6. The American President (1995 Film) by Rob Reiner
    7. Primary Colors (1998 Film) by Mike Nichols
    8. Bulworth (1998 Film) by Warren Beatty
    The Weekly Standard, November 20, 2000, pp. 36-39