The Last Hurrah (1958)

Regisseur:

John Ford

Drehbuchautoren:

Edwin O'Connor (novel)
Frank S. Nugent (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

November 1958 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Werbezeile:

Big book! big cast! big picture!

Plot:

Frank Skeffington is an old Irish-American political boss, running for re-election as Mayor of of a US town for the last time.

Plot Keywords:

Irish Catholic | Irish American | Boston | Boston Massachusetts | Irish American Politics

Filmpreise:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins

Nutzerkommentare:

Here is the end of a political career and of an era.

Besetzung

Spencer Tracy	...	Mayor Frank Skeffington
Jeffrey Hunter	...	Adam Caulfield
Dianne Foster	...	Mave Caulfield
Pat O'Brien	...	John Gorman
Basil Rathbone	...	Norman Cass, Sr.
Donald Crisp	...	Cardinal Martin Burke
James Gleason	...	'Cuke' Gillen
Edward Brophy	...	'Ditto' Boland
John Carradine	...	Amos Force
Willis Bouchey	...	Roger Sugrue
Basil Ruysdael	...	Bishop Gardner
Ricardo Cortez	...	Sam Weinberg
Wallace Ford	...	Charles J. Hennessey
Frank McHugh	...	Festus Garvey
Carleton Young	...	Winslow

Alternativ:

Letzte Hurra, Das (Österreich) (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

121 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss

Seitenverhältnis:

1.37 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Altersfreigabe:

USA:Approved (PCA #19086) | West Germany:12 (f) | Finland:S

Drehorte:

Columbia/Warner Bros. Ranch - 411 N. Hollywood Way, Burbank, California, USA

Firma:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Dies und das:

Orson Welles was John Ford's original choice to play Frank Skeffington but the offer did not reach Welles in time for him to agree to the part. Welles and Ford were fans of each other's work.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Ausschnittsweise enthalten in Directed by John Ford (1971)

Here is the end of a political career and of an era.

"The Last Hurrah" is about the end of a political career and also the end of an era in American local government. I first saw the film when I was ready to launch a career in public administration, and I didn't like the sympathy Spencer Tracy gave the role of big city boss. Over the subsequent years, I have enjoyed the film more each time. Now, I thoroughly enjoy and am amused by the way Frank Skeffington manipulates the powerful to champion the underdog.

The film is more drama and comedy than history. Yet, men like James Michael Curley, Richard J. Daley, and David L. Lawrence combined ambition for power with a desire to achieve municipal progress as they saw it. They used their understanding of human nature and the ignorance of the body politic effectively. Skeffington shows how. Today, their successors use other methods for similar purpose.