A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Power of the Press
(1909) United States of America
B&W : One reel / 997 feet
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: Maurice Costello [the newspaper man], Van Dyke Brooke [the corrupt politician], Ralph Ince [the bartender]

The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by The Vitagraph Company of America. / Released 28 December 1909. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the George Eastman Museum film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 28 January 2015.

References: Film viewing : Sloan-Loud pp. 31, 32, 150 : Website-AFI.

Home video: VHS.