The Last Hurrah (1958 film)

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.

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."

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