| The Last Hurrah | |
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| Directed by | John Ford |
| Written by | Frank S. Nugent |
| Based on | The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor |
| Produced by | John Ford |
| Starring | Spencer Tracy Jeffrey Hunter Dianne Foster Pat O'Brien Basil Rathbone |
| Cinematography | Charles Lawton Jr. |
| Edited by | Jack Murray |
| Color process | Black and white |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2.3 million[2] |
| Box office | $1.1 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[3] |
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 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.
- ^ "The Last Hurrah - Details". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
- ^ James Curtis, Spencer Tracy: A Biography, Alfred Knopf, 2011 p741-752
- ^ "1959: Probable Domestic Take", Variety, 6 January 1960 p 34