The Power and the Glory The Power and the Glory The Power and the Glory (1940) is a novel by British author Graham Greene. The title is an allusion to the doxology often recited at the end of the Lord's Prayer: "For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, amen." It was initially published in the United States under the title The Labyrinthine Ways. Greene's novel tells the story of a renegade Roman Catholic 'whisky priest' (a term coined by Greene) living in the Mexican state of Tabasco in the 1930s, a time when the Mexican government was attempting to
The Power and the Glory (1933 film) New York City. The film was a box office disappointment for Fox. By the end of 1940, it had grossed a little over a half-million dollars, which meant that Sturges had only received about $2,000 over his advance. By 1957 it had grossed around a million. Sturges' innovative narrative structure was singled out by critics, and the praise was so great, the studio put a bronze plaque up on the New York movie theater where it had its world premiere. The bronze tablet hailed "The Power and the Glory" as "the first motion picture in which narratage was used as