Name: Powers That Prey
Released: 1918
Cast: Mary Miles Minter, Alan Forrest, Harvey Clark, Clarence Burton, Lucille Ward

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Also Known As

Extra! Extra!

Release Date

Mar 4, 1918

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

American Film Co.

Distribution Company

Mutual Film Corp.

Country

United States

Synopsis

Run out of town when he exposes crooked politician Jarvis McVey in the pages of his newspaper, Burton Grant asks his daughter Sylvia to turn the Daily News over to his dynamic young city editor, Frank Summers. Having inherited her father's journalistic talents, however, Sylvia fires Frank and takes charge of the paper herself, decorating the city room with bows and printing several rather silly "scoops." In the meantime, Frank learns that McVey and the president of the railroad have become involved in a dishonest scheme concerning the city franchise, and when Sylvia hears this, she publishes an extra, stating that McVey should be tarred and feathered. Sylvia's father arrives just in time to prevent the angry townspeople from carrying out her suggestion and then compels McVey to leave town. Grant orders Sylvia to return to school, but she decides to become Mrs. Frank Summers instead.