The Power and the Glory (1933)
October 6, 1933Release Date
The Power and the Glory (1933)
October 6, 1933Release Date

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Cast & Crew.

Spencer Tracy
Tom Garner

Colleen Moore
Sally Garner

Ralph Morgan
Henry

Helen Vinson
Eve Borden

Phillip Trent
Tom Garner, Jr.

Henry Kolker
Mr. Borden

Sarah Padden
Henry's Wife

Billy O'Brien
Tom as a Boy

Billy O'Brien
Tom as a Boy

Cullen Johnson
Henry as a Boy

J. Farrell MacDonald
Mulligan

Robert Warwick
Edwards (uncredited)

Russell Simpson
Professor (uncredited)

Mary Gordon
Nurse (uncredited)

Mary Carr
Flower peddler (uncredited)

William K. Howard
Director
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The Power and the Glory is a 1933 pre-Code film starring Spencer Tracy and Colleen Moore, written by Preston Sturges, and directed by William K. Howard. The picture's screenplay was Sturges' first script, which he delivered complete in the form of a finished shooting script, for which he received $17,500 ($411,900 today) and a percentage of the profits. Profit-sharing arrangements, now a common practice in Hollywood, were then unusual and gained Sturges much attention.
The film, told through flashbacks, was cited by Pauline Kael in her essay "Raising Kane", as a prototype for the narrative structure of Citizen Kane (1941). (Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, who along with Orson Welles won an Oscar for the screenplay of Citizen Kane, was a friend of Sturges.)
The Power and the Glory was loosely based by Sturges on the life of C. W. Post, his second wife's grandfather, who founded the Postum Cereal Company, which later became General Foods. Like Tom Garner, the lead character of the film, Post worked his way up from the bottom, and ended his own life. Otherwise, according to Sturges, their lives did not correspond.
In 2014, The Power and the Glory was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The film's copyright was renewed.
The film is unrelated to the 1940 novel of the same title by Graham Greene.
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