THE POWER AND THE GLORY Director｜William K. Howard Screenplay｜Preston Sturges Cinematographer｜James Wong Howe Cast｜Spencer Tracy, Collen Moore 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. The Power and the Glory was loosely based by Sturges on the life of C. W. Post, his second wife's grandfather, who founded the Postum Cereal Company, which later became General Foods.The film, told through flashbacks, was also cited by Pauline Kael in her essay "Raising Kane", as a prototype for the narrative of Citizen Kane (1941).