The Last Hurrah (1958)

Directed by

John Ford

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 01m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 62 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An aging Irish-American mayor runs one last campaign against powerful civic opponents. His nephew watches the veteran politician use every trick he knows to hold onto power.

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What happens

The Last Hurrah is a 1958 American political satire film adaptation of the 1956 novel The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor. It was produced and 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 from the National Board of Review, the latter which also presented Ford their award for Best Director. The film tells the story of Frank Skeffington, a sentimental but iron-fisted Irish-American who is the powerful mayor of an unnamed New England city. As his nephew, Adam Caulfield, follows one last no-holds-barred mayoral campaign, Skeffington and his top strategist, John Gorman, use whatever means necessary to defeat a candidate backed by civic leaders such as banker Norman Cass and newspaper editor Amos Force, the mayor's dedicated foes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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