The Power and the Glory (1933 film)

The Power and the Glory is a 1933 PreCode film starring Spencer Tracy and Colleen Moore, written by Preston Sturges, and directed by William K. Howard. The pictures screenplay was Sturges first script, which he delivered complete in the form of a finished shooting script, for which he received 17,500 and a percentage of the profits. Profitsharing arrangements, now a common practice in Hollywood, were then unusual and gained Sturges much attention.

After the funeral service for Tom Garner Spencer Tracy, a powerful and muchhated railroad tycoon who committed suicide, his best friend Henry Ralph Morgan recalls Garners life, his family problems, and his rise from track walker to president of the railroad.Sturges originally wrote the script as a freelance project after being let go by Universal Pictures. He told the story to producer Jesse L. Lasky, who had his own unit at Fox, who requested a treatment. Sturges refused to do a treatment, and instead delivered a finished shooting script, which Lasky said was the most perfect script Id ever seen, with nothing that needed to be trimmed. ........

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