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
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. the film "Honeymoon in Auschwitz," which Leuchter had, in fact, done. On the television series "At the Movies", film critic Roger Ebert said the film was great, strange and provocative, and his co-host Lisa Schwarzbaum called it "amazing." "The Detroit News" wrote that the movie "unmasks the friendly face of evil." Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. is a 1999 documentary film by Errol Morris about execution technician Fred A. Leuchter. Using film made at American prisons, Leuchter talked about his upbringing where his