4. 偉大なるマッギンティ
81分 モノクロ 1940年
原題「The Great McGinty」
監督：プレストン・スタージェス
主演：ブライアン・ドンレヴィ、ミュリエル・アンゲルス
ふとしたことから政界に足を踏み入れた男。
不正を繰り返し州知事にまで上り詰めるが……。
巨匠プレストン・スタージェスが脚本も務めた監督デビュー作で、アカデミー賞脚本賞を受賞。
『ザ・グレート・マッギンティ』は、プレストン・スタージェスが脚本と監督を務め、ブライアン・ドンレヴィとエイキム・タミロフが主演し、ウィリアム・デマレストとミュリエル・アンジェラス（最後の出演作）が出演した1940年のアメリカの政治風刺コメディ映画である。
スタージェスが監督を務めた最初の映画であり、彼はパラマウント映画に、監督を務めるという条件でわずか10ドルでこの物語を売却した。スタージェスはアカデミー賞脚本賞を受賞した。
| Directed by | Preston Sturges |
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| Written by | Preston Sturges |
| Produced by | Paul Jones Buddy G. DeSylva (uncredited) |
| Starring | Brian Donlevy Muriel Angelus Akim Tamiroff |
| Cinematography | William C. Mellor |
| Edited by | Hugh Bennett |
| Music by | Frederick Hollander John Leipold (uncredited) |
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Production |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Release dates |
August 15, 1940 (NYC premiere) August 23 (general) |
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Running time |
83 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $350,000 |
- Brian Donlevy as Daniel McGinty
- Muriel Angelus as Catherine McGinty
- Akim Tamiroff as The Boss
- Allyn Joslyn as George
- William Demarest as Skeeters, the Politician
- Louis Jean Heydt as Tommy Thompson
- Harry Rosenthal as Louie
- Arthur Hoyt as Mayor Wilfred T. Tillinghast
- Libby Taylor as Bessy
- Thurston Hall as Mr. Maxwell
- Steffi Duna as The Dancing Girl
- Joyce Arleen as Mary, Catherine's girl, age 6
予告
バナナ共和国でバーテンやってるおっさんが昔話
「わい州知事」
始めは反社のパシリで採用
市政の黒幕とおともだちになる
首のすげ替えに利用されて市議→市長→州知事
公共事業でばら撒きピンハネする構図
家族が出来て 黒幕と手を切る
スキャンダル暴露されてムショ
公共事業でばら撒きと不正選挙と言えば
フランクリン・ルーズベルト - Wikipedia 1940年の映画だし
イギリスでの公開にあたり、この映画は1889年の歌にちなんで『Down Went McGinty』と改題された。
Sunday morning just at nine
Dan McGinty dressed so fine,
Stood looking at a very high stone wall,
When his friend, young Pat McCann,
Says, “I’ll bet five dollars, Dan,
I could carry you to the top without a fall.”
So on his shoulders he took Dan,
to climb the ladder he began,
And soon commenced to reach up near the top;
When McGinty, cute old rogue,
To win the five he did let go,
Never thinking just how far he’d have to drop.
Down went McGinty to the bottom of the wall,
And tho’ he won the five,
he was more dead than alive;
Sure his ribs and nose and back were broke from getting such a fall,
Dressed in his best suit of clothes.
From the hospital Mac went home,
When they fixed his broken bones,
To find he was the father of a child;
So to celebrate it right,
his friends he went to invite,
And soon he was drinking whiskey fast and wild.
Then he waddled down the street
in his Sunday suit so neat,
Holding up his head as proud as John the Great;
But in the sidewalk was a hole,
to receive a ton of coal,
That McGinty never saw till just too late.
Down went McGinty to the bottom of the hole,
Then the driver of the cart
gave the load of coal a start;
And it took us half an hour to dig McGinty from the coal,
Dress’d in his best suit of clothes.
Now McGinty raved and swore,
About his clothes he felt so sore,
And an oath he took he’d kill the man or die;
So he tightly grabbed his stick
and hit the driver a lick,
Then he raised a little shanty on his eye.
But two policemen saw the muss,
And they soon joined in the fuss,
Then they ran McGinty in for being drunk;
And the Judge says with a smile,
We will keep you for a while,
In a cell to sleep upon a prison bunk.
Down went McGinty to the bottom of the jail,
Where his board would cost him nix,
and he stay’d exactly six;
They were big long months he stopp’d, for no one went his bail,
Dressed in his best suit of clothes.
Now McGinty, thin and pale,
one fine day got out of jail,
And with joy to see his boy was nearly wild;
To his house he quickly ran
To see his wife, Bedaley Ann,
But she skipp’d away and took along the child.
Then he gave up in despair
And he madly pulled his hair,
As he stood one day upon the river shore;
Knowing well he couldn't swim,
he did foolishly jump in,
Although water he had never took before.
Down went McGinty to the bottom of the sea,
And he must be very wet
for they haven’t found him yet;
But they say his ghost comes round the docks
Before the break of day,
Dressed in his best suit of clothes.
『ザ・グレート・マッギンティ』には、「ある男の物語」、「放浪者」、「尊厳のマントル」、「浮浪者の伝記」、「Down Went McGinty」（イギリスでの公開時に使用された）など、数多くの仮題があった。スタージェスは1933年にスペンサー・トレイシーを念頭に原作「ある男の物語」を執筆した。[3] 映画史家ケビン・ブラウンローによると、スタージェスはニューヨーク州知事として弾劾され職を解かれたウィリアム・サルザーの経歴に触発されたという。
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