The Last Hurrah (1958 film)

The Last Hurrah
U.S. movie poster
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
Release date	November 1958 (1958-11)[1]
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.