The Last Hurrah (1958), directed by John Ford - 9/18/18

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John Ford's The Last Hurrah (1958) is coming to Blu-ray from Twilight Time on September 18. 2018. This will be a limited edition of 3000 copies.

From IMDb....An aging politician tries to get re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950s when TV started to play a bigger part in politics. Based loosely on the career of multi-term Boston Mayor James Michael Curley, this film examines the good and evil inherent in politics and all the things that go into an election. Tracy's uphill battle to stay in office is set against the political machinery that preyed on ethnic hatred and old-time money.

Directed by John Ford (Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man, Mister Roberts, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Searchers, and many, many more of the greatest movies ever made).

Starring:

Spencer Tracy (Judgment at Nuremberg, Inherit the Wind, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Bad Day at Black Rock, Broken Lance)

Jeffrey Hunter (The Searchers, King of Kings, No Down Payment)

Dianne Foster (The Kentuckian, Drive a Crooked Road, and many 1950s and 1960s TV shows....The Last Hurrah is one of her few films)

Basil Rathbone (The Sherlock Holmes film series, The Mark of Zorro)

Cinematography by Charles Lawton Jr. (The Lady from Shanghai, 3:10 to Yuma, Jubal, Cowboy, Miss Sadie Thompson, A Raisin in the Sun, and many more - one of the great directors of photography)





Trailer

The Last Hurrah trailer (1958) - YouTube