The Power and the Glory (1933 film) life. Otherwise, according to Sturges, their lives did not correspond. In 2014, "The Power and the Glory" was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The film is unrelated to the 1940 novel of the same title by Graham Greene. After the funeral service for Tom Garner (Spencer Tracy), a powerful and much-hated railroad tycoon who committed suicide, his best friend Henry (Ralph Morgan) recalls Garner's life, his family problems, and his rise from track walker to president of the railroad. Sturges originally wrote the script as
The Power and the Glory the Glory" all have antecedents in "The Lawless Roads", mostly as people Greene encountered directly or, in the most important instance, a legendary character that people told him about, a certain "whisky priest", a fugitive who, as Greene writes in "The Lawless Roads", "existed for ten years in the forest and swamps, venturing out only at night". Another of Greene's inspirations for his main character was the Jesuit priest Miguel Pro, who performed his priestly functions as an underground priest in Tabasco and was executed without trial in 1927 on false charges. In 1983, Greene said that he first started