The Huntington presents the world premire of a specially-commissioned adaptation of this classic Boston political novel. Frank Skeffington is a veteran politician — a gifted orator and a master crowd psychologist — familiar with big-city unions, ethnic interest groups, media personalities, and vengeance-thirsty enemies. It's 1955, and the 73-year-old lion and his cigar-chomping cronies are in the midst of his final election campaign, confident of another victory — until his enemies conspire to groom a cardboard candidate to oppose him with a new strategy: television.

Based on the life of legendary four-time Boston mayor James Michael Curley, one of the most colorful big-city bosses of the 20th century.