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...Last Hurrah (John Ford; Columbia) is based on Edwin O'Connor's 1956 bestseller about the bad old days when political machines were run on blarney, graft, openhanded charity and shamrock oil, and about the last of the great Irish-American city bosses in the grand, 19th century manner-a man, the author protests, who is not to be confused with ex-Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston...
Actor Tracy, who bears a certain physical resemblance to Mayor Curley in his political prime, plays the part with more Celtic charm than a carload of leprechauns. The Last Hurrah could easily become one of the biggest sentimental successes since Going My Way left the public quivering like one vast harp...
...threw down handfuls of Kennedy-Furcolo buttons and armloads of paper streamers. Just ahead of it walked a man inside a great box sign, inexplicably made up in a long beard, top hat, and dark glasses. The sign was stapled over with dust jackets of The Last Hurrah...
...What's this Last Hurrah business, Mary?" one launder-woman asked the other as they pushed through the crowd outside...
...Grace. While he was busy buying up such surefire successes as The Last Hurrah, Wald also found time to write to 10,000 librarians all over the world, asking for the names of their most popular books. As a result of the poll, he has since bought D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (an overrated but filmable story of British miners) and Lady Chatterley's Lover (a-nearly unfilmable tale of four-letter words and high-level adultery...