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Power of the Press is a 1943 American crime film directed by Lew Landers and starring Guy Kibbee, Gloria Dickson, Lee Tracy, Otto Kruger and Victor Jory.
Power of the Press: Directed by Lew Landers. With Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Gloria Dickson, Otto Kruger. During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Lew Landers
- 1943-01-28
Newspaper publisher Ulysses Bradford writes an editorial in his newspaper, the Starr County World , accusing John Cleveland Carter, his friend and publisher of the New York Gazette , of abusing the freedom of the press and running articles harmful to the wartime security of the United States. Carter agrees with his friend's criticisms, and ...
Synopsis, historical analysis, personnel profiles, contemporary reviews, and discussion of the film Power of the Press, released in 1943 by Columbia Pictures, starring Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Gloria Dickson, Otto Kruger and Victor Jory, and directed by Lew Landers.
Overview. During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits. Lew Landers. Director. Robert Hardy Andrews. Screenplay. Samuel Fuller. Story.
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic ...
- 5 min
- 260
- Man v Film
Synopsis by Bruce Eder. John Cleveland Carter (Minor Watson) is the publisher of a once-great newspaper, who discovers too late that his editor, Howard Rankin (Otto Kruger), has been subverting his paper, turning it into a yellow scandal sheet. Before he can take action against Rankin, however, he is shot by one of the editor's strong-arm men.
