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 Voices of Glory "The Voices of Glory" is an overwhelming novel. It overwhelms with torrential eloquence, with tempestuous emotion, with drama, melodrama, and pathos. There hasn't been anything like "Voices of Glory" ever. "Time Magazine", in an unsigned review of October 19, 1962, stated: "The immense force of Grubb's writing is flung against enemies long since weakened or dead—boosterism, Babbittry, ignorant refusal to vaccinate schoolchildren. He might as well have written a passionate parable in favor of rural electrification. "The Voices of Glory", which should have been a great book, suffers irreparably from too villainous villains, too pure heroes, and a heroine who,