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Last Hurrah, The (1958)
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Spencer Tracey,
Donald Crisp,
Dianne Foster,
James Gleason,
Jeffrey Hunter,
Pat O'Brien,
Basil Rathbone
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John Ford
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Drama
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Columbia / TriStar
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English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai
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121 mins
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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 mayor James Curley. The Last Hurrah stars Spencer Tracey (whom Ford discovered) as mayor Frank Skeffington, the last of a dying breed of grassroots politicians. Facing a re-election challenge from a new kind of candidate- the TV candidate- Skeffington pulls out all the stops in an old-fashioned, rip-roaring campaign which enrages the WASP establishment. Supported by a superb cast of character actors, including Pat O
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