Великий МакГинти (1940)

During the Great Depression, a homeless man named Dan McGinty becomes involved in city politics. He's recruited for his skills in vote fraud by a powerful political organization and gains the trust of the organization's leader, who plans to make him a mayoral candidate. The condition? He must be married. Dan marries Catherine, a good woman, in a marriage of convenience. Flashbacks reveal Dan’s increasing moral decline as his life of deceit and corruption ultimately leads to his ruin.