Spencer Tracy
Mayor Frank Skeffington
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- Jeffrey HunterAdam Caulfield, Journalist and Skeffington's Nephew
- James Gleason'Cuke' Gillen, Skeffington Crony
- Dianne FosterMave Caulfield
- Pat O'BrienJohn Gorman, Skeffington Crony
- Basil RathboneNorman Cass, Sr., Banker
- Donald CrispHis Eminence Cardinal Martin Burke
- Edward Brophy'Ditto' Boland, Skeffington Crony
- John CarradineAmos Force, Newspaper Publisher/Managing Editor
- Willis BoucheyRoger 'Sir Roger' Sugrue
Basil RuysdaelBishop Gardner- Ricardo CortezSam Weinberg
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The Last Hurrah. (1958 film) The Last Hurrah is a 1958 American political satire film adaptation of the 1956 novel The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor. It was directed by John Ford and stars Spencer Tracy as a veteran mayor preparing for yet another election campaign. Tracy was nominated as Best Foreign Actor by BAFTA and won the Best Actor Award ...
The Last Hurrah: Directed by John Ford. With Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster, Pat O'Brien. Frank Skeffington is an old Irish-American political boss, running for re-election as mayor of a U.S. town for the last time.
- (4.2K)
- Drama
- John Ford
- 1958-11
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
The Last Hurrah is a 1956 novel written by Edwin O'Connor. It is considered the most popular of O’Connor's works, partly because of a 1958 movie adaptation starring Spencer Tracy . The novel was immediately a bestseller in the United States for 20 weeks, [2] and was also on lists for bestseller of that year. [3]
- Edwin O'Connor
- 1956
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
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Last Hurrah, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Spectator Sport First scene for Jeffrey Hunter as local syndicated columnist Caulfield, visiting his uncle the mayor Skeffington (Spencer Tracy), who has a proposition relating to his re-election campaign, early in John Ford's The Last Hurrah, 1958.
