The Last Hurrah
BIG BOOK! BIG CAST! BIG PICTURE!
An aging politician tries to get re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950s when TV started to play a bigger part in politics. Based loosely on the career of multi-term Boston Mayor James Michael Curley, this film examines the good and evil inherent in politics and all the things that go into an election. Tracy's uphill battle to stay in office is set against the political machinery that preyed on ethnic hatred and old-time money.
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
Spencer Tracy
Frank Skeffington
Jeffrey Hunter
Adam Caulfield
Dianne Foster
Maeve Caulfield
Pat O'Brien
John Gorman
Basil Rathbone
Norman Cass, Sr.
Donald Crisp
Cardinal Martin Burke
James Gleason
'Cuke' Gillen
Edward Brophy
'Ditto' Boland
John Carradine
Amos Force
Willis Bouchey
Roger Sugrue
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Charles Lawton Jr.
Cinematographer
