The Power of the Press (film)

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"THE POWER
OF THE PRESS"

A Frank R. Capra
production

Copyright MCMXXVIII—Columbia Pictures Corpn
~Passed by National Board of Review~

From the story by

Frederick A. Thompson

Screen Play and Continuity
Sonya Levien

Photography	Art Director
Ted Tetzlaff, a.s.c.	Harrison Wiley

Film Editor
Arthur Roberts

The Players

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Jobyna Ralston
Mildred Harris
Robert Edeson
Dell Henderson
Philo McCollough
Wheeler Oakman
Edwards Davis

A Columbia Production

EDITORIAL ROOMS

CITY EDITOR

Bill Johnson

Sports

Dramatic

Editor

Story
by
Clem Rogers

WEATHER REPORT
BY
CLEM ROGERS

    WEATHER MAN PROMISES SUNSHINE TODAY:     
CLEAR SKIES

"Say, Brisbane, the whole world's waiting for that weather report."

WEATHER REPORT
BY
CLEM ROGERS

    WEATHER MAN PROMISES SUNSHINE TODAY:
CLEAR SKIES;  THINK THAT MEANS TO THE
BIRDS AND FLOWERS; THINK WHAT IT MEANS TO
THE FARMER THAT HARDY SON OF TOIL UPON WHOSE
SHOULDERS THE WEALTH OF NATIONS RESTS.
      THINK OF THE MOTHERS AND CHILDREN IN THE
PARKS AND FIELDS AND BABBLING BROOKS;
       SUNSHINE AND HEALTH AND HAPPINESS TO
ALL IS WHAT I PROMISE TODAY;

The Times
CITY FAVORS ATWILL FOR MAYOR

Blake's chances lessen as reform
candidate leads in straw vote

"Two days before election and this paper's about as lively as the Undertakers' Gazette!"

"No wonder your paper's dull——you keep a good man like me on weather reports and death notices!"

"There's a classic for you—change a word, and you ruin it!"

WEATHER REPORT
BY
CLEM ROGERS

    WEATHER MAN PROMISES SUNSHINE TODAY:
CLEAR SKIES;  THINK THAT MEANS TO THE
BIRDS AND FLOWERS; THINK WHAT IT MEANS TO
THE FARMER THAT HARDY SON OF TOIL UPON WHOSE
SHOULDERS THE WEALTH OF NATIONS RESTS.
      THINK OF THE MOTHERS AND CHILDREN IN THE
PARKS AND FIELDS AND BABBLING BROOKS;
       SUNSHINE AND HEALTH AND HAPPINESS TO
ALL IS WHAT I PROMISE TODAY;

"I'll say this much for you stuff—it's rotten!"

"Boss, speaking man to man, I don't think you appreciate my full value."

"Johnson—Forbes—where's everybody?"

"Here's the chance you've been squawking for! District Attorney Nye's been murdered!"

PRESS

REPORTER'S PASS

The Owner
employed by the TIMES
is entitled to pass […]

"Examine the body——pump the servants—find who the police suspect—and hurry!"

"Where to?"

"What did you say the address was?"

"Don't delay me—I'm a reporter!"

"Honest I'm a reporter!"

"Tell them who I am."

"Even if I knew, I wouldn't tell."

"Follow that girl! I'm a Times reporter!"

"Not me! That's Jane Atwill, daughter of the candidate for mayor!"

"Gee—she just ran out of the district attorney's house!"

"The district attorney's been sweet on her… Maybe she got peeved and bumped him off."

"Don't tell the other reporters… I want the scoop for myself."

"Stop the press!"

"I won't give you the story unless you print my name on it."

"She must have killed him—I saw her run away."

Miss Jane Atwill

"If I could only by sure you didn't dream this!"

"I've discovered that Jane Atwill called on Nye tonight——I'm following it up."

"Too late—the cub landed the story, right under your nose!"

"Hammer out that story—quick!"

BY CLEM ROGERS

   BECAUSE OF THE INGENUITY OF A TIMES REPORT-
ER JANE ATWILL DAUGHTER

"Hold the press for a new front page!"

The Times

CANDIDATE'S DAUGHTER INVOLVED
IN MURDER OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY

Jane Atwill found hiding
in dead man's home

"I was going to vote for Atwill—but this settles it."

"Why did you kill him?"

"I've told you over and over—"

"Mr. Nye asked me to drop in at his home after the theatre…"

"I sent for you tonight because there's something I want to give you."

"There's John Atwill!"

"This'll kill your chances of getting elected, won't it?"

"Election be hanged—I'm here to get my daughter!"

Robert Blake

 

Campaign
Headquarters

BLAKE

Robert Blake

 

Private

The Van

 

Development Co.

VOTE FOR
ROBERT
BLAKE
The People's Choice
FOR MAYOR

"My opponent has mt deepest sympathy, in his hour of trouble."

"That's tough on old Atwill."

"Yeah—I can see the tears running down the back of your neck!"

"Pretty smart, eh——the way I planted this story with that dump reporter?"

"Now if we can only keep Marie quiet until after the election—I'm a cinch!"

"It's your li'l Marie."

"Daddy, I've been cooped up so long in this dump I'm talking to myself."

"Be patient… Right after election, I'm moving you to a swell apartment."

"I see you slipped the works to Nye."

"Shut up? That's all I've been for a month, and I'm sick of it!"

"Go out and put the muffler on that dame!"

"——and put a man on to watch her——day and night!"

"Just a cub's dumb luck—stumbling on the scoop of the year!"

Clem Rogers

"I wonder what big story I'll write today.

"May I see you alone, please?"

"ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN"

 

CONNIE HAVEN

"If I were a man, I'd punch your nose."

"You've ruined my reputation——and killed my father's chances of election!"

"We newspaper men must print the news, no matter who is hurts!"

"——and just to create a sensation, to sell your filthy paper, you disgrace an innocent family!"

"Please don't cry."

"I'm sorry, little girl——I'll have that story retracted in big type on the front page."

"They do whatever I say around here——the editor's my pal."

"I promised Miss Atwill we'd retract that whole story in today's paper."

"We've ruined her reputation!"

"News is news—no matter who it hurts."

"But I tell you she's innocent——I saw her cry!"

"If you don't retract the story, I'll resign!"

"You can't resign—you're fired!"

"Say, Crime Wave——why didn't Blake come?"

"Busy."

"Listen—go back and tell that would-be mayor that I'm checking out!"

"Why the big parade?"

"You blab too much."

"What if I refuse to be his Prisoner of Zenda?"

"After what happened to the district attorney, I believe you!"

"—I—I only wanted to thank you for that scoop."

"I have a hunch that Blake's crowd had something to do with the murder."

"One story connecting Blake with it, would save the election for your father."

"There's one thing I didn't tell the police."

"In there—information—will elect your father."

"Just a lot of photographs——they're meaningless to us."

"Say, pal, got 'nother great scoop!"

"I break candidates… Broke one——goin' to break 'nother!"

"Distrik 'torney gave this to Atwill girl…"

"I copped it… Don' know what's all 'bout, but editor will."

"Meet Happy Al——the world's greatest bootlegger"

NIGHT & DAY
DRUGGIST

"Let's check them with the duplicates I made."

"That's the one he took."

Marie Weston
Indicted - 1925.

"I've got a wild idea how we can locate her."

"Can you sing a cabaret number?"

"Happy Al speaking—is the boss there?"

"Marie phoned for a case, but I've lost her address."

"Two-twenty-eight Sycamore Road—and keep it to yourself."

"This is a man's job… You go to the Times office and wait for me."

"Clem—be careful—"

"My election tomorrow is a cinch—and there'll be fat jobs for everybody."

"I thought you were taking a case out to Marie."

"Maybe that reporter wasn't so drunk!"

"Drive like blazes to Marie's!"

Yellow
Cab
Co.

"I don't know what your game is——but you're welcome, even if you're a burglar."

"A reporter? Oh boy, how I love reporters!"

"Well, what's new in the outside world?"

"Why did you kill the district attorney?"

"Blake and Van say you did."

"The double-crossing skunks! It was Van himself!"

"Will you put that in a signed statement?"

"——and they planned that murder in this very room!"

"That's a great story."

"Too bad it'll never be printed."

"But I wouldn't cheat the papers—let's give them a better story…"

"Write this——"

"——'Fate forces Marie and me to part——so we have decided to end it all, together'."

"Now sign it."

"You'll look so romantic when the coroner finds you——in each other's arms!"

"Do you realize they'll find your finger prints on the gun?"

"Follow him—wreck him—anything to stop him!"

"Get two cars—head him off before he hits town!"

"Stop the press!"

"Here's the man that killed the district attorney!"

The Times
BLAKE JAILED IN NYE MURDER
Candidate's Gunman and "Sweetie" Confess
ATWILL'S ELECTION ASSURED

Reporter Brings
in Murderer to
Office of Times

Clem Rogers Engaged
To Marry Jane Atwill

Clem Rogers Engaged
To Marry Jane Atwill

Clem Rogers, Times reporter who was so instrumen-
tal in bringing to justice the real murderer of District
Attorney Ney, has announced his engagement to Miss Jane
Atwill, daughter of Candidate Atwill, whose election is
[…]

"Who had the nerve to give them this statement?"

"You wouldn't deny it, and get me fired again, would you?"

The End