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The Great Man Votes is a american film of genre Drama directed by Garson Kanin released in USA on 13 january 1939 with John Barrymore
The Great Man Votes (1939)
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Add to a movie listThe Great Man Votes is a 1939 American drama film starring John Barrymore as a widowed professor turned drunkard who has the deciding vote in an election for mayor. It was based on the short story of the same name by Gordon Malherbe Hillman published in the November 1933 issue of American Magazine. The plot of the 2008 movie Swing Vote has been compared to The Great Man Votes.
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This script must be run from the command lineActors
John Barrymore
(Vance)
Virginia Weidler
(Joan)
Katharine Alexander
(Miss Billow)
Donald MacBride
(Iron Hat McCarthy)
Elisabeth Risdon
(Phoebe Ainslee)
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