The Power of the Press

For the 1943 film, see Power of the Press (1943 film).

The Power of the Press
Promotional movie poster for the film
Directed by	Frank Capra
Produced by	Jack Cohn
Written by	Sonya Levien Frederick A. Thompson
Starring	Douglas Fairbanks Jr Jobyna Ralston Mildred Harris Philo McCullough Wheeler Oakman
Cinematography	Chester A. Lyons Ted Tetzlaff
Editing by	Frank Atkinson
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	October 31, 1928
Running time	62 min.
Country	U.S.A.
Language	Silent film English intertitles

The Power of the Press is a 1928 silent 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.

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".

In 1943, Columbia used the title again for another newspaper picture, but it had a completely different plot and thus was not a remake. That movie had Lee Tracy as managing editor of a newspaper, and starred Guy Kibbee as the publisher. The title of the 1943 movie was "Power of the Press," with no "the."

Cast

• Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. - Clem Rogers
• Jobyna Ralston - Jane Atwill
• Mildred Harris - Marie Weston
• Philo McCullough - Robert Blake
• Wheeler Oakman - Van
• Robert Edeson - City Editor
• Edward Davis - Mr. John Atwill
• Dell Henderson - Bill Johnson
• Charles Clary - District Attorney Nye
• Spottiswoode Aitken - Sports Writer
• Frank Manning - Detective

External links

• The Power of the Press at the Internet Movie Database
• The Power of the Press at AllRovi