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Power of the Press (film)

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Power of the Press was a 1943 film, based on a story by the acclaimed director Sam Fuller. It starred Guy Kibbee and Lee Tracy. The film is not to be confused with The Power of the Press, a 1928 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.[1]

This film was directed by Lew Landers, and was produced by Columbia Pictures.

The Kibbee character is a small-town newspaper publisher who is called in to protect a big-city paper that has come under control of an isolationist, played by Otto Kruger. Tracy plays the managing editor, who has been going along with the regime but suffers a crisis of conscience when Kruger has the paper's publisher murdered and frames an ex-employee (an unbilled Larry Parks), making up and printing lurid details of the crime to boost circulation.

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