A growing source of silent era film information.
This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett.
Copyright © 2000-2010 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

About This Listing  /   Report Omissions or Errors in This Listing

The Power of the Press
(1928) American
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by Frank Capra

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. [Clem Rogers], Jobyna Ralston [Jane Atwill], Mildred Harris [Marie], Philo McCullough [Blake], Wheeler Oakman [Van], Robert Edeson [the city editor], Edward Davis [Mr. Atwill], Dell Henderson [Johnson], Charles Clary [district attorney]

Columbia Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Columbia Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Jack Cohn. Scenario by Sonya Levien and Frederick A. Thompson, from a screen story by Frederick A. Thompson. Art direction by Harrison Wiley. Assistant director, Charles C. Coleman. Cinematography by Chester A. Lyons and Ted Tetzlaff + [Joseph Walker]. Edited by Frank Atkinson. / Released 31 October 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.4306.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Crime: Murder - Death: Murder - Injustice - Newspapers: Reporters - Politics: Political campaigns, Politicians

Listing updated: 3 April 2009.

References: AFI-F2 n. F2.4306; McBride-Capra p. 723; Poague-Capra p. 237.