Power of the Press

During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.

Cast

Guy Kibbee

as Ulysses Bradford

Lee Tracy

as Griff Thompson

Gloria Dickson

as Edwina Stephens

Otto Kruger

as Howard Raskin

Victor Jory

as Oscar Trent

Don Beddoe

as Pringle (uncredited)

Edmund Cobb

as Process Server (uncredited)

Eddie Laughton

as Reporter (uncredited)

Douglas Leavitt

as Whiffle (uncredited)

Ivan Miller

as Man on Dais (uncredited)

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