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The Long Voyage Home
Why this pick
Shared genres: Drama.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1958 2h 1m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Drama
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In "a New England city", Frank Skeffington (Spencer Tracy) plans to run for a fifth term. Skeffington rose from poverty in an Irish ghetto to become mayor and former governor, and is skilled at using the power of his office and an enormous political machine of ward heelers to receive support from his Irish Catholic base and other demographics. Rumors of graft and abuse of power are widespread, however, and the Protestant bishop, newspaper publisher Amos Force (John Carradine), banker Norman Cass (Basil Rathbone), and other members of the city's traditional elite the Irish Catholics replaced oppose Skeffington; so do the Catholic cardinal (Donald Crisp), Skeffington's childhood friend, and other Catholics. Skeffington's opponents support the candidacy of Kevin McCluskey (Charles B. Fitzsimons), a young Catholic lawyer and war veteran with no political experience.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Spencer Tracy
Frank Skeffington
Dianne Foster
Mave Caulfield
Basil Rathbone
Norman Cass, Sr.
James Gleason
'Cuke' Gillen
Willis Bouchey
Roger Sugrue
Basil Ruysdael
Bishop Gardner
Frank McHugh
Festus Garvey
Bob Sweeney
Johnny Degnan