In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
Spencer Tracy
as Mayor Frank Skeffington
Jeffrey Hunter
as Adam Caulfield
Dianne Foster
as Mave Caulfield
Pat O’Brien
as John Gorman
Basil Rathbone
as Norman Cass Sr.
Donald Crisp
as The Cardinal
James Gleason
as Cuke Gillen
Edward Brophy
as Ditto Boland
John Carradine
as Amos Force
Willis Bouchey
as Roger Sugrue
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Spencer Tracy is very much in his element as the long established, ducking and diving, Irish-American city mayor who takes on the blue-blooded commercial powers-that-be in his un-named New England city led by industrialist "Cass" (Basil Rathbone). It plays a little to Irish-American stereotypes acro...