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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 Power and the Glory: Directed by William K. Howard. With Spencer Tracy, Colleen Moore, Ralph Morgan, Helen Vinson. The tragic life story of a power-hungry industrialist is recounted in the aftermath of his death.
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- William K. Howard
- 1933-10-06
The Power and the Glory begins with the funeral of its main character, Tom Garner, and then goes back in time to tell about his life. He's a likable guy who grows up in the boondocks, so removed from middle-class privilege that he's still illiterate at age twenty.
The Power and the Glory. (1933) Directed by William K. Howard. William Howard’s rendition of this early Preston Sturges screenplay depicts the rise of young entrepreneur Tom Garner (Tracy) to the pinnacle of power as a ruthless but alienated railroad tycoon.
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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.
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In 1933 Howard directed The Power and the Glory, a searing account of the rise and fall of a powerful railroad tycoon (Spencer Tracy). The groundbreaking film, which was written by Preston Sturges, employed a multiple-flashback structure that is believed to have influenced Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz…
