Hogan's Goat

Hogan's Goat (1971)

A young Irish ward boss has a chance to be elected mayor, but the disgraced current mayor makes sure the candidate's wife learns about his affair with a just-deceased rich girl.

Date of release
1971-10-11
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
2h 0m
Genres
Drama, TV Movie
Director
Glenn Jordan

Casting

Interesting facts

Hogan's Goat is a 1965 play by William Alfred. The blank-verse drama concerns a mayoral contest between Irish Americans in Brooklyn, New York, in 1890. The play's focus is on the personal life of Matthew Stanton, the dynamic leader of the Sixth Ward, who hopes to unseat corrupt incumbent Ned Quinn. Stanton's wife Kathleen fears campaign publicity will reveal that they never were married in the Catholic Church, a fact uncovered by Quinn, who also discovers Stanton was once the "kept man" of Agnes Hogan, Quinn's ex-girlfriend who is now on her deathbed.

Production

Alfred drew influence for this play from his immigrant great grandmother's, Anna Maria Egan, experience.

It took Alfred nine years to complete the play while he was a full time English professor at Harvard University.

In 1970, Alfred co-wrote the book for a musical adaptation entitled Cry for Us All, which was a critical and commercial failure, running for one week on Broadway. The following year, he wrote the teleplay for a television movie adaptation for the PBS series Great Performances.

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