What happens
Dan McGinty, a small-time hoodlum, is recruited by a political boss to vote repeatedly on election night, and his rise through the city machine begins from there. He becomes a collector for the boss, then an alderman, and the boss plans to make him mayor. McGinty marries Catherine, a woman who is willing to enter a marriage of convenience with him. The Lady Esther Screen Guild Players present this 1945 radio adaptation of the Paramount motion picture The Great McGinty, starring Brian Donlevy, Ruth Hussey and Akim Tamiroff.
A large American city, with its political machine, election night and municipal offices.
Characters: Dan McGinty, Catherine Ryan, The Boss
Listen for: McGinty's voting scheme on election night, and his later proposal of marriage to Catherine.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.