The Last Hurrah is a 1956 novel written by Edwin O'Connor. It is considered the most popular of O’Connor’s works, partly because of a significant 1958 movie adaptation starring Spencer Tracy. The novel when published was immediately a bestseller in the United States and stayed so for 20 weeks and on bestseller lists for the year it was published. The Last Hurrah, which won the Atlantic Prize, was also highlighted by the Book-of-the-Month Club and Reader's Digest. The Last Hurrah received very positive critical reviews, including an "ecstatic" one from the New York Times Book Review.

'The Last Hurrah' is a 1958 film adaptation of the novel The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor that was directed by John Ford. Spencer Tracy was nominated as Best Foreign Actor by BAFTA, and won the Best Actor Award from National Board of Review which also awarded John Ford Best Director.

The role of Mayor Frank Skeffington was first offered to Orson Welles, as Welles tells in Peter Bogdanovich's 1992 book 'This Is Orson Welles'. However, "When the contracts were to be settled, I was away on location, and some lawyer -if you can conceive of such a thing- turned it down. He told Ford that the money wasn't right or the billing wasn't good enough, something idiotic like that, and when I came back to town the part had gone to Tracy."

The Last Hurrah is a 1977 remake of a 1955 movie, itself based on the novel The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor. This version was directed by Vincent Sherman.

The longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and stay in power, despite challenges to his regime by young, dissatisfied opponents, and his worries that his age and his ill health may have an effect on the election's outcome. Written by frankfob2@yahoo.com

An aging politician (Spencer Tracy) 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. Written by Ed Lorusso