THE LAST HURRAH

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• Release Year: 1958
• Genre: Classic, Drama
• Plot: In THE LAST HURRAH, John Ford explores the quintessential Irish-American rogue: the big city politician. Widely believed to be based on the life of Boston mayor James Curley, THE LAST HURRAH stars Spencer Tracy (whom Ford discovered) as Mayor Frank Skeffington, the last of a dying breed of grassroots politicians. Facing a re-election challenge from a new kind of politician – the TV candidate – Skeffington pulls out all the stops in an old-fashioned, rip-roaring campaign which enrages the WASP establishment. Supported by a superb cast of character actors, including Pat O’Brien, John Carradine, Basil Rathbone and James Gleason (heralded at the time as the largest collection of scene-stealers ever assembled), Tracy gives a spellbinding performance in this frank and funny, and ultimately wrenching portrait of a great man’s final days.;
• Cast: Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster, Pat O'Brien, Basil Rathbone, Donald Crisp, James Gleason, Edward Brophy, John Carradine, Willis Bouchey, Basil Ruysdael, Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Ford, Frank McHugh, Carleton Young, Frank Albertson, Bob Sweeney, William Leslie, Anna Lee, Ken Curtis, Jane Darwell, O.Z. Whitehead, Arthur Walsh, Phil Adams, Alex Akimoff, Fred Aldrich, Richard Alexander, Frank Baker, Bobette Bentley, Steve Benton, Gail Bonney, Danny Borzage, Rand Brooks, John Bryant, Jack Chefe, Dick Cherney, Charles Cirillo, Richard Dale Clark, Ruth Clifford, Edmund Cobb, Bud Cokes, Hal K. Dawson, Richard Deacon, John Deauville, George DeNormand, Joe Devlin, James Dime, Clint Dorrington, Mimi Doyle, Tommy Earwood, Eddie Fetherston, Charles B. Fitzsimons, James Flavin, George Ford, William Forrest, Joseph Forte, Raoul Freeman, Sam Harris, Jack Henderson, William Henry, Chuck Hicks, Stuart Holmes, Chuck Howard, William Hudson, Charles Anthony Hughes, Thomas E. Jackson, William Janssen, Mike Jeffers, Roy Jenson, Roland Jones, Richard Keene, Fred Kennedy, June Kirby, Webster Lagrange, Harry Lauter, Johnny Leone, Robert Levin, Edmund Lowe, Wilbur Mack, Hank Mann, Eve March, Frank Marlowe, Mae Marsh, Philo McCullough, Joe McGuinn, Edward McNally, Paul McVey, Harold Miller, Jimmy Murphy, Forbes Murray, Tom Neal, Bill Neff, William H. O'Brien, Brian O'Hara, Joe Palma, Emma Palmese, Harvey Parry, Jack Pennick, Bob Perry, Clete Roberts, John Ford, Frank S. Nugent, Edwin O'Connor
• Director: John Ford
• Runtime: 2:01
• Company: Columbia Pictures, Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie