The Great McGinty Preston Sturges won the 1940 Academy Award for "Best Original Screenplay" for "The Great McGinty", which was named as one of the "10 Best Films of 1940" by both "The New York Times" and "Film Daily". The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Streaming audio The Great McGinty The Great McGinty is a 1940 political satire comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff and featuring William Demarest and (in her final screen appearance) Muriel Angelus. It was Sturges's first film as a director; he sold the story to Paramount
The Fall of a Nation The Fall of a Nation The Fall of a Nation is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Thomas Dixon, Jr., and is a sequel to the 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation", directed by D. W. Griffith. Dixon, Jr. attempted to cash in on the success of the controversial first film. "The Fall of a Nation" is considered to be the first ever film sequel. Based upon "The Fall of a Nation", written by the director, the film is now considered lost. "The Fall of a Nation" is an attack on the pacifism of William Jennings Bryan