The Last Hurrah

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces The Last Hurrah, 1958.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Last Hurrah, 1958.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Last Hurrah, 1958.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Last Hurrah, 1958.

First scene for Jeffrey Hunter as local syndicated columnist Caulfield, visiting his uncle the mayor Skeffington (Spencer Tracy), who has a proposition relating to his re-election campaign, early in John Ford's The Last Hurrah, 1958.

Opening scene in John Ford's rendering of the Edwin O'Connor novel, Mayor Skeffington (Spencer Tracy) at home assessing re-election, aides arriving including Edward Brophy as "Ditto" and Pat O'Brien as campaign manager Gorman, from The Last Hurrah, 1958.

Mayor Skeffington (Spencer Tracy) at a campaign rally, his nephew, columnist Caulfield (Jeffrey Hunter) with his wife (Dianne Foster) and her grouchy father (Willis Bouchey), then the mayor's no-account son (Arthur Walsh) arriving home, in John Ford's The Last Hurrah, 1958.

Mayor Skeffington (Spencer Tracy) with embedded-reporter nephew Adam (Jeffrey Hunter) arriving early to the wake for a friend, meeting kooky Delia (Jane Darwell) and the widow Gert (Anna Lee), in John Ford's The Last Hurrah, 1958, from the Edwin O'Connor novel.