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The Last Hurrah

The Last Hurrah

7.2/ 10

TMDB Rating

61

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1958

Release Year

117 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.

Keywords

husband wife relationship
based on novel or book
election campaign
irish-american
black humor
politician
family secrets
class differences
co-workers relationship
uncle nephew relationship
political satire
town mayor
usa politics
mayoral campaign
mayoral candidate
social prejudice
mayoral election

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

October 9, 2023

7
7/10

Spencer Tracy is very much in his element as the long established, ducking and diving, Irish-American city mayor who takes on the blue-blooded commercial powers-that-be in his un-named New England city led by industrialist "Cass" (Basil Rathbone). It plays a little to Irish-American stereotypes acro

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