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Information
- Year
- 1958
- Runtime
- 121 min.
- Director
- John Ford
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Rating *
- 7.4
- Votes *
- 2,272
- Checks
- 216
- Favs
- 8
- Dislikes
- 4
- Favs/checks
- 3.7% (1:27)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:1
Top comments
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inhonoredglory
A quality picture, full of meaning, history, and famous faces. It details the fall of the old ways of politics -- like the good old-fashioned street-corner speech -- to the advances of television and the scripted plug. It follows the last campaign of Frank Skeffington (Spencer Tracy) in a well-suited role as an aging mayor. His nephew (Jeffrey Hunter), who cares for Skeffington more than the mayor's own son, follows the campaign, shenanigans, and magnanimity of Skeffington. The film was created from a successful novel, and the quality shows. We can see that there is backstory to the characters, a life beyond the plot. The honest emotions in the closing scenes are not to be missed. They touched me keenly. 12 years 2 months ago