Vote Cinema: American Politics on Film
The Great McGinty
Event Details
Date
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Time
7:30 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Preston Sturges sold Paramount this script for $1 in exchange for the chance to make his directorial debut. Skewering the Right and Left with equal zeal, incorporating voter fraud and puppet regimes, this savage satire of election politics has proven distressingly prescient - or is it just timeless? (USA, 1940, 35mm, b/w, 82 min.)
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Free
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