Last Hurrah
Last Hurrah ★★½ 1958
An aging Irish-American mayor battles corruption and political backbiting in his effort to get re-elected for the last time. Semi-acclaimed heart warmer, based on the novel by Edwin O'Connor. 121m/B VHS, DVD . Spencer Tracy, Basil Rathbone, John Carradine, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster, Pat O'Brien, Edward Brophy, James Gleason, Donald Crisp, Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Ford, Frank McHugh, Jane Darwell, Arthur Walsh; D: John Ford; W: Frank Nugent; C: Charles Lawton Jr. Natl. Bd. of Review ‘58: Actor (Tracy), Director (Ford).
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