THE LAST HURRAH .... 1958
(Adam Caulfield).  Jeff is a likeable, sympathetic newspaper reporter covering the last campaign of a longtime Boston mayor (wonderfully played by Spencer Tracy).  A fine John Ford comedy-drama based on Edwin O'Connor's best-selling novel about the passing of old politics.  Besides newcomer Dianne Foster as Jeff's bride, the cast includes some of the screen's greatest character actors and actresses in what for many of them was their swan song:  Basil Rathbone, Pat O'Brien, John Carradine, James Gleason, Donald Crisp, Frank McHugh, Edward Brophy, Edmund Lowe, Wallace Ford, Ricardo Cortez, and Anna Lee and Jane Darwell, many of whom had been John Ford stock company players for decades.

Photo above left was added on 3/14//2006.