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The Power and the Glory

William K. Howard (Director), Spencer Tracy (Actor), Colleen Moore and Ralph Morgan (Actor) Rated:
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Format: DVD
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
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Genre Drama
Format NTSC
Contributor Colleen Moore and Ralph Morgan, Spencer Tracy, William K. Howard, Jesse L. Lasky, Preston Sturges
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 16 minutes
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A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime, he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening, it was already too late.

Product details

  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 2.72 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ FXMD82747DVD
  • Director ‏ : ‎ William K. Howard
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 16 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ August 23, 2012
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Spencer Tracy, Colleen Moore and Ralph Morgan
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Jesse L. Lasky
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008Y1YJPE
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Preston Sturges
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
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L. C. Jenkins
4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Actor !
Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2014
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I have been a Spencer Tracy fan for more years than I can remember. I don't remember seeing this one and was glad to find it for my collection. He's one of the best actors ever !
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Elroy Coley Jr
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2016
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early spencer tracy is the best this is a very good dvd....,
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Colman deKay
5.0 out of 5 stars Preston Sturges' forgotten masterpiece!
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2014
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The screenplay that put Sturges on Hollywood's map, and that was the unspoken blueprint for Citizen Kane. This is an incomplete cut of an almost lost film, but the flashes of genius radiate.
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craig potts
5.0 out of 5 stars craig
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2014
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great movie! they don't make movies like this anymore. Spencer Tracy performance is riveting and well done He's truly a leading man of his time..
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jimi
5.0 out of 5 stars greed is not a good seed to sow
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2013
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early spencer tracy film that utilizes many film noir techniques in theme and character development. excellent acting and filming for an early sound picture.
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Dan L. Miller
4.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2018
He’s the man everyone loves to hate—except one guy. Starting out as an illiterate track walker for the railroad, Tom Garner rises to railroad magnate status initiated by his wife’s ambition. In the process, he becomes a different man—a hated, misguided power-lover. This soap opera is a fascinating character study. Spencer Tracy morphs from likable to hated throughout the film, and genuinely portrays both sides of his character. It is gratifying, too, to see silent film star Colleen Moore faithfully portray her role as Garner’s wife. This is a good story with good acting from established and emerging stars. I highly recommend this film.
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John Silence is Golden
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Precode Melodrama with an Intense Performance by a Young Spencer Tracy:
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2013
This is a relatively short film of 1 1/4 hours that has the feel of a pre-code Warner Brothers crime film - it moves quickly and crams into it, a lot of incidents that highlight a railroad tycoons rise and fall with the film openning with his funeral and highlighting the revulsion his family, friends and co-workers feel for him - even in death !! So the question is why do they despise him and how did he get to the point where all his worldly success doesn't keep him from committing suicide ? Spencer Tracy plays Tom Garner a man who comes up from nothing by a singleminded ruthlessness to achieve wealth and influence and how in his hell bent quest for power he loses everyone and everything he loves. This movie is perhaps best known as one of Preston Sturges earliest screen writers credits and as a precursor of Orson Welles 1941 classic "Citizen Kane". Sturges screenplay {9 years before Kane} utilizes in it's basic storyline of the rise and fall of a "larger than life" tycoon, a flashback narrative structure in which a voice over narrator reveals Garner's mindset at the end of his life and how past incidents, influences and hubris brought Tom from poverty to success, disaster then death. Did Welles and his screen writer Herman Mankerwitz take a "long hard look" at Sturges screenplay as a prototype for "Citizen Kane? Spencer Tracy is excellent and he is so young, slim and fit - only 33 years old with eyes flashing, teeth bared as he delivers his dialouge with verve and bite - he is simply marvelous. Colleen Moore {a 1920s silent film superstar}in one of her last screen appearances gives a nice performance as the "good wife" and Helen Vinson {who never quite made it to top stardom} is surprising effective as the "not so good" bored second wife" who looks for "Kickier Kicks" in the wrong place with horrible consequences. Preston Sturges screenplay is compelling. Director William K Howard is content to let the performers and storyline dominate the proceedings and ace camera man James Wong Howe positions his camera perfectly for the intimate and big sceens of the film. The narrative flashback juxtapostioning Garners current and past choices that make where his life goes, the search for success and what he missed in all his relationships when "right in front of his nose" are the themes of this excellent film that I give a rating of 5 stars.
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