preston sturgis the power and the glory be unseen by the public for nearly twenty or thirty year until the late 1990s when it resurface and even show up on television . in the meantime it have gain in notoriety because pauline kael the citizen kane book have suggest that the herman mankiewicz orson welles screenplay for kane be base on sturgis screenplay here . a be mention in the beginning of this thread for the film on the imdb web site and kael overstate her case . there be about six narrator who take turn deal with the life of charles foster kane represent the newsreel ( represent ralston the henry luce clone ) and thatcher memoir and bernstein and jed leland and susan alexander kane and and raymond the butler . each have his or her different slant on kane and reflect their faith or disappointment or hatred of the man . and of course each also reveal his or her own failing when they be tell their version of kane story . this method also lead to frequent overlap re telling of the same incident . this be not the situation in the power and the glory . yes and like kane it be about a legendary business leader here it be tom garner ( spencer tracy ) and a man who rise from the bottom to be head of the most successful railroad system in the country . but there be only two narrator they be garner right hand man henry ( ralph morgan ) and his wife ( sarah padden ) . this restrict the nearly three dimensional view we get at time of kane in garner . henry and when he narrate and be talk about his bos and friend and whom he respect and love . his wife be like the voice of the skeptical public she see only the flaw in henry . typical example represent although he work his way up and tom becomes more and more anti labor in his late year . union be troublemaker and and he do not care to be slow down by their shenanigan . henry describe tom confrontation with the union in a major walk out and and how it preoccupy him to the detriment of his home life . but henry wife remind him how tom use scab and violence to end the strike ( apparently blow up the union headquarters kill many people ) . so we have two view of the man but one be pure white and one be pure black . i be not really knock the power and the glory for not duplicate kane success ( few film do include all of orson welles other film ) and but i be aware that the story be present well enough to hold one interest to the end . and thanks to the performance of tracy and colleen moore a his wife sally and the tragedy of the worldly success of the pair be fully bring home . when they marry and tom want to do well ( in part ) to give his wife and their family the benefit he never have . but in america great business success come at a cost . tom get deeply involved with run the railroad empire ( he expand it and improve it constantly ) . but it take him away from home too much and and he lose touch with sally . and he also notice eve ( helen vinson ) and the young woman who become his mistress . when sally learn of his unfaithful behavior it destroy her . similarly tom too get a full shock ( which make him a martyr in the eye of henry ) . eve marries tom and and present him with a son but it turn out to be eve son by tom son tom jr. ( philip trent ) . the discovery of this incestuous cuckolding cause tom to shoot himself . the film be not a total success the action jump at time unconvincingly . yet it do make the business seem real ( note the scene when tom tell his board of director about his plan to purchase a small rival train line and and he discuss the use of debenture for finance the plan ) . sturgis come from a wealthy background and so he could bring in this type of detail . so on the whole it be a first rate film . no citizen kane perhaps and but of interest to movie lover a an attempt at business realism with social commentary in depression america .