IS BACK!
Thanks to Messers. Bill Mechanic, Fred Chandler and Shawn Belston,
and the kind offices of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, we are
happy to report that this amazing film has been fully restored!
Using five different source prints, that were all ragged but thankfully
all ragged in different places, the film has been saved from the
cold hands of time. The opening title music was re-discovered in
a dusty vault and likewise made it into the picture.
The Power And The Glory was shown for the first time in almost 40
years as part of the British Film Institute's Preston Sturges retrospective.
They will reshow it in July during their Citizen Kane program. (The
two films deserve comparison and we welcome it, in fact. Now that
TP&TG is watchable again, its impact on CK is even more in evidence
- from the story, to the way the story is told, to the very last
words spoken.)
The first American viewing will take place 29 July 2000 at the UCLA
Preservation Festival here in Los Angeles.
