Run out of town when he exposes crooked politician Jarvis McVey in the pages of his newspaper, Burton Grant asks his daughter Sylvia to turn the Daily News over to his dynamic young city editor, Frank Summers. Having inherited her father's journalistic talents, however, Sylvia fires Frank and takes charge of the paper herself, decorating the city room with bows and printing several rather silly "scoops.
Will M. Ritchey
United States
The flickering nitrate of Powers That Prey opens like a match-head scraped across sulfur: sudden, sulfurous, impossible to ignore. One senses, even in the surviving 35th-generation print, the heat of a nation chewing its own tail between world wars, Spanish flu, and the first acrid puffs of Prohibition. Burton Grant’s...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Henry King
Henry King
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" The flickering nitrate of Powers That Prey opens like a match-head scraped across sulfur: sudden, sulfurous, impossible to ignore. One senses, even in the surviving 35th-generation print, the heat of a nation chewing its own tail between world wars, Spanish flu, and the first acrid puffs of Prohibition. Burton Grant’s ink-stained exile is less plot point than primal scene—America’s conscience clubbed by its own swaggering wallet. Director/editor/writer Will M. Ritchey, a name too often footnote..."
