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File: The Power of the Press (1928).webm
Author: Frank Russell Capra
Publisher: Columbia Pictures
Year: 1928
PD: PD/US|1991|film=yes
Note: A 1928 American silent drama film. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
Cat: Crime film, Silent 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~
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From the story by
Screen Play and Continuity
Sonya Levien
| Photography | Art Director |
| Ted Tetzlaff, a.s.c. | Harrison Wiley |
Film Editor
Arthur Roberts
00:18
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Jobyna Ralston
Mildred Harris
Robert Edeson
Dell Henderson
Philo McCollough
Wheeler Oakman
Edwards Davis
A Columbia Production
00:33
EDITORIAL ROOMS
00:38
CITY EDITOR
01:13
Bill Johnson
01:18
Sports
01:26
Dramatic
01:32
Editor
01:38
Story
by
Clem Rogers
01:48-02:00
WEATHER REPORT
BY
CLEM ROGERS
WEATHER MAN PROMISES SUNSHINE TODAY:
CLEAR SKIES
02:04
"Say, Brisbane, the whole world's waiting for that weather report."
02:20-02:40
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;
03:57
The Times
CITY FAVORS ATWILL FOR MAYOR
Blake's chances lessen as reform
candidate leads in straw vote
04:07
"Two days before election and this paper's about as lively as the Undertakers' Gazette!"
04:16
"No wonder your paper's dullyou keep a good man like me on weather reports and death notices!"
04:56
"There's a classic for you—change a word, and you ruin it!"
05:05-05-17
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;
05:30
"I'll say this much for you stuff—it's rotten!"
06:52
"Boss, speaking man to man, I don't think you appreciate my full value."
07:29
"Johnson—Forbes—where's everybody?"
07:45
"Here's the chance you've been squawking for! District Attorney Nye's been murdered!"
08:00
REPORTER'S PASS
The Owner
employed by the TIMES
is entitled to pass […]
08:06
"Examine the bodypump the servants—find who the police suspect—and hurry!"
08:26
"Where to?"
08:46
"What did you say the address was?"
09:44
"Don't delay me—I'm a reporter!"
10:00
"Honest I'm a reporter!"
10:12
"Tell them who I am."
10:17
"Even if I knew, I wouldn't tell."
12:12
"Follow that girl! I'm a Times reporter!"
12:20
"Not me! That's Jane Atwill, daughter of the candidate for mayor!"
12:29
"Gee—she just ran out of the district attorney's house!"
12:43
"The district attorney's been sweet on her… Maybe she got peeved and bumped him off."
12:54
"Don't tell the other reporters… I want the scoop for myself."
13:15
"Stop the press!"
13:25
"I won't give you the story unless you print my name on it."
13:50
"She must have killed him—I saw her run away."
14:00
Miss Jane Atwill
14:09
"If i could only by sure you didn't dream this!"
14:28
"I've discovered that Jane Atwill called on Nye tonightI'm following it up."
14:40
"Too late—the cub landed the story, right under your nose!"
14:50
"Hammer out that story—quick!"
15:14-15:22
BY CLEM ROGERS
BECAUSE OF THE INGENUITY OF A TIMES REPORT-
ER JANE ATWILL DAUGHTER
15:29
"Hold the press for a new front page!"
16:43
The Times
CANDIDATE'S DAUGHTER INVOLVED
IN MURDER OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Jane Atwill found hiding
in dead man's home
18:42
"I was going to vote for Atwill—but this settles it."
19:05
"Why did you kill him?"
19:16
"I've told you over and over—"
19:25
"Mr. Nye asked me to drop in at his home after the theatre…"
19:44
"I sent for you tonight because there's something I want to give you."
20:59
"There's John Atwill!"
21:14
"This'll kill your chances of getting elected, won't it?"
21:22
"Election be hanged—I'm here to get my daughter!"
21:56
Robert Blake
Campaign
Headquarters
22:06
BLAKE
22:17
Robert Blake
Private
22:25
The Van
Development Co.
23:00
VOTE FOR
ROBERT
BLAKE
The People's Choice
FOR MAYOR
23:13
"My opponent has mt deepest sympathy, in his hour of trouble."
23:37
"That's tough on old Atwill."
23:45
"Yeah—I can see the tears running down the back of your neck!"
24:03
"Pretty smart, ehthe way I planted this story with that dump reporter?"
24:15
"Now if we can only keep Marie quiet until after the election—I'm a cinch!"
24:43
"It's your li'l Marie."
24:54
"Daddy, I've been cooped up so long in this dump I'm talking to myself."
25:07
"Be patient… Right after election, I'm moving you to a swell apartment."
25:21
"I see you slipped the works to Nye."
25:33
"Shut up? That's all I've been for a month, and I'm sick of it!"
25:59
"Go out and put the muffler on that dame!"
26:14
"and put a man on to watch herday and night!"
26:31
"Just a cub's dumb luck—stumbling on the scoop of the year!"
27:25
Clem Rogers
27:46
"I wonder what big story I'll write today.
28:50
"May I see you alone, please?"
29:04
"ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN"
CONNIE HAVEN
29:40
"If I were a man, I'd punch your nose."
29:47
"You've ruined my reputationand killed my father's chances of election!"
29:57
"We newspaper men must print the news, no matter who is hurts!"
30:12
"and just to create a sensation, to sell your filthy paper, you disgrace an innocent family!"
30:44
"Please don't cry."
30:56
"I'm sorry, little girlI'll have that story retracted in big type on the front page."
31:30
"They do whatever I say around herethe editor's my pal."
31:58
"I promised Miss Atwill we'd retract that whole story in today's paper."
32:17
"We've ruined her reputation!"
32:25
"News is news—no matter who it hurts."
32:32
"But I tell you she's innocentI saw her cry!"
32:50
"If you don't retract the story, I'll resign!"
32:58
"You can't resign—you're fired!"
34:06
"Say, Crime Wavewhy didn't Blake come?"
34:14
"Busy."
34:26
"Listen—go back and tell that would-be mayor that I'm checking out!"
35:13
"Why the big parade?"
35:18
"You blab too much."
35:37
"What if I refuse to be his Prisoner of Zenda?"
36:03
"After what happened to the district attorney, I believe you!"
37:28
"—I—I only wanted to thank you for that scoop."
38:25
"I have a hunch that Blake's crowd had something to do with the murder."
38:32
"One story connecting Blake with it, would save the election for your father."
39:10
"There's one thing I didn't tell the police."
39:29
"In there—information—will elect your father."
39:47
"Just a lot of photographsthey're meaningless to us."
41:27
"Say, pal, got 'nother great scoop!"
41:35
"I break candidates… Broke onegoin' to break 'nother!"
41:45
"Distrik 'torney gave this to Atwill girl…"
41:55
"I copped it… Don' know what's all 'bout, but editor will."
42:19
"Meet Happy Althe world's greatest bootlegger"
44:09
NIGHT & DAY
DRUGGIST
44:12
"Let's check them with the duplicates I made."
44:54
"That's the one he took."
45:02
Indicted - 1925.
45:13
"I've got a wild idea how we can locate her."
45:45
"Can you sing a cabaret number?"
46:06
"Happy Al speaking—is the boss there?"
46:35
"Marie phoned for a case, but I've lost her address."
46:50
"Two-twenty-eight Sycamore Road—and keep it to yourself."
47:17
"This is a man's job… You go to the Times office and wait for me."
47:34
"Clem—be careful—"
48:28
"My election tomorrow is a cinch—and there'll be fat jobs for everybody."
49:26
"I thought you were taking a case out to Marie."
49:44
"Maybe that reporter wasn't so drunk!"
49:51
"Drive like blazes to Marie's!"
50:40
Yellow
Cab
Co.
52:57
"I don't know what your game isbut you're welcome, even if you're a burglar."
53:11
"A reporter? Oh boy, how I love reporters!"
53:45
"Well, what's new in the outside world?"
53:53
"Why did you kill the district attorney?"
54:08
"Blake and Van say you did."
54:17
"The double-crossing skunks! It was Van himself!"
54:24
"Will you put that in a signed statement?"
54:45
"and they planned that murder in this very room!"
55:38
"That's a great story."
55:52
"Too bad it'll never be printed."
56:23
"But I wouldn't cheat the papers—let's give them a better story…"
56:33
"Write this"
56:47
"'Fate forces Marie and me to partso we have decided to end it all, together'."
57:21
"Now sign it."
57:29
"You'll look so romantic when the coroner finds youin each other's arms!"
57:37
"Do you realize they'll find your finger prints on the gun?"
59:19
"Follow him—wreck him—anything to stop him!"
59:27
"Get two cars—head him off before he hits town!"
1:01:37
"Stop the press!"
1:02:18
"Here's the man that killed the district attorney!"
1:03:08
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
To Marry Jane Atwill
1:03:17
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, daugher of Candidate Atwill, whose election is
[…]
1:03:24
"Who had the nerve to give them this statement?"
1:03:33
"You wouldn't deny it, and get me fired again, would you?"
1:03:47
The End