The Power of the Press

The Power of the Press

Infobox Film
name = The Power of the Press


image_size = 200px
caption = Promotional movie poster for the film
director = Frank Capra
producer = Jack Cohn
writer = Sonya Levien
Frederick A. Thompson
starring = Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Jobyna Ralston
Mildred Harris
Philo McCullough
Wheeler Oakman
cinematography = Chester A. Lyons
Ted Tetzlaff
editing = Frank Atkinson
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US October 31, 1928
runtime = 62 min.
country = U.S.A.
language = Silent film
English intertitles
amg_id = 1:106477
imdb_id = 0019290

"The 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.

The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.


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