The Power of the Press
1928 film
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The Power of the Press is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as an aspiring newspaper reporter and Jobyna Ralston as a young woman suspected of murder.[1]
| The Power of the Press | |
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| Directed by | Frank Capra |
| Written by | Sonya Levien Frederick A. Thompson |
| Produced by | Jack Cohn |
| Starring | Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Jobyna Ralston Mildred Harris Philo McCullough Wheeler Oakman |
| Cinematography | Chester A. Lyons Ted Tetzlaff |
| Edited by | Arthur Roberts |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 62 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
In 1943, Columbia Pictures reused the title, without the leading The, for another newspaper picture, but it had a completely different plot and was not a remake.
Cast
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Clem Rogers
- Jobyna Ralston as Jane Atwill
- Mildred Harris as Marie Weston
- Philo McCullough as Robert Blake
- Wheeler Oakman as Van
- Robert Edeson as City Editor
- Edward Davis as Mr. John Atwill
- Dell Henderson as Bill Johnson
- Charles Clary as District Attorney Nye
- Spottiswoode Aitken as Sports Writer
- Frank Manning as Detective
Preservation
In 2005 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[2][3]
