The Power and the Glory is a 1933 pre-Code film starring Spencer Tracy and Colleen Moore, written by Preston Sturges, and directed by William K. Howard. The picture's screenplay was Sturges' first script, which he delivered complete in the form of a finished shooting script, for which he received $17,500 ($ today) and a percentage of the profits. Profit-sharing arrangements, now a common practice in Hollywood, were then unusual and gained Sturges much attention. The film, told through flashbacks, was cited by Pauline Kael in her essay "Raising Kane", as a prototype for the narrative structure of Citizen Kane (1941). (Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, who along with Orson Welles won an Oscar for the screenplay of Citizen Kane, was a friend of Sturges.) The Power and the Glory was loosely based by Sturges on the life of C. W. Post, his second wife's grandfather, who founded the Postum Cereal Company, which later became General Foods. Like Tom Garner, the lead character of the film, Post worked his way up from the bottom, and ended his own life. Otherwise, according to Sturges, their lives did not correspond. In 2014, The Power and the Glory was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The film's copyright was renewed. The film is unrelated to the 1940 novel of the same title by Graham Greene. Premise After the funeral service for Tom Garner (Spencer Tracy), a powerful and much-hated railroad tycoon who committed suicide, his best friend Henry (Ralph Morgan) recalls Garner's life, his family problems, and his rise from track walker to president of the railroad. Cast Spencer Tracy as Tom Garner Colleen Moore as Sally Garner Ralph Morgan as Henry Helen Vinson as Eve Borden Phillip Trent as Tom Garner, Jr. Henry Kolker as Mr. Borden J. Farrell MacDonald as Mulligan Sarah Padden as Henry's Wife George Chandler as Young Member – Board of Directors (uncredited) Edward LeSaint as Doctor (uncredited) Russell Simpson as College Professor (uncredited) Robert Warwick as Edward (uncredited) Cast notes The cast includes four actors who had been film directors during the silent film era: Phillips Smalley, E. H. Calvert, Frank Beal and Tom Ricketts. Some 400 extras were used in the railroad roundhouse scene. Production Sturges originally wrote the script as a freelance project after being let go by Universal Pictures. He told the