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  1. 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 ...

  2. Spencer Tracy stars as Frank Skeffington, a veteran mayor running for re-election in a New England town. The film, directed by John Ford, is based on a novel by Edwin O'Connor and features a cast of Ford regulars and newcomers.

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    • Drama
    • John Ford
    • 1958-11
  3. 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
  4. 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 ma...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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.

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  8. A film about an aging Irish-American politician running for re-election as mayor of a U.S. town in the 1950s. Based loosely on the career of Boston Mayor James Michael Curley, it explores the good and evil of politics and the changing media landscape.