The Last Hurrah (1958 film)

The Last Hurrah
U.S. movie poster
Directed by	John Ford
Produced by	John Ford
Written by	Edwin O'Connor (novel) Frank S. Nugent
Starring	Spencer Tracy
Cinematography	Charles Lawton Jr.
Editing by	Jack Murray
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	October 24, 1958
Running time	121 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Last Hurrah is a 1958 film adaptation of the novel The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor. It was directed by John Ford and starred 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 which also awarded John Ford Best Director.^[specify]

Cast

Spencer Tracy as Mayor Frank Skeffington
Jeffrey Hunter as Adam Caulfield
Dianne Foster as Mave Caulfield
Pat O'Brien as John Gorman
Basil Rathbone as Norman Cass, Sr.
Donald Crisp as Cardinal Martin Burke
James Gleason as "Cuke" Gillen
Edward Brophy as "Ditto" Boland
John Carradine as Amos Force
Willis Bouchey as Roger Sugrue
Basil Ruysdael as Bishop Gardner
Ricardo Cortez as Sam Weinberg
Wallace Ford as Charles J. Hennessey
Frank McHugh as Festus Garvey
Carleton Young as Winslow
Frank Albertson as Jack Mangan
Bob Sweeney as Johnny Degnan
Edmund Lowe as Johnny Byrne
William Leslie as Dan Herlihy
Anna Lee as Gert Minihan
Ken Curtis as Monsignor Killian
Jane Darwell as Delia Boylan
O.Z. Whitehead as Norman Cass Jr.
Arthur Walsh as Frank Skeffington Jr.

The role of Mayor Frank Skeffington was first offered to Orson Welles, as Welles recounts in Peter Bogdanovich's 1992 book This Is Orson Welles. However, "When the contracts were to be settled, I was away on location, and some lawyer -if you can conceive of such a thing- turned it down. He told Ford that the money wasn't right or the billing wasn't good enough, something idiotic like that, and when I came back to town the part had gone to Tracy."

External links

The Last Hurrah at the Internet Movie Database
The Last Hurrah at the TCM Movie Database

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