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The Power of the Press is a american film of genre Drama directed by Frank Capra released in USA on 30 october 1928 with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
The Power of the Press (1928)
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Add to a movie listThe 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.
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Un procureur est assassiné. Un jeune reporter ambitieux découvre qu'une héritière était avec le procureur au moment du meurtre et décide de l'accuser publiquement.Actors
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
(Clem Rogers)
Jobyna Ralston
(Jane Atwill)
Mildred Harris
(Marie Weston)
Philo McCullough
(Robert Blake)
Wheeler Oakman
(Van)
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