The Power And The Glory

Spencer Tracy here got his first real opportunity to stretch the acting muscles on which he built his reputation on stage in New York, and Preston Sturges--another Broadway veteran who thought he was just picking up some easy money in California before getting back to the real world--wrote his first screenplay in this once celebrated, but now barely remembered, film. Opening with the funeral of a railway magnate, the film follows Morgan--the former secretary and lifelong friend of the dead tycoon--as first his wife, then an office watchman, revile the dead man's memory. Finally Morgan sits down with his wife and tells her about his former employer, the flashbacks c...