Home Town Story (1951)
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Home Town Story was commissioned as a pro-Big Business tract by General Motors. The story revolves around Blake Washburn, a mildly leftist newspaperman, played by Jeffrey Lynn. Returning to his home town, Washburn turns his journalistic vitriol upon the local business interests. Only after his kid sister Katie (Melinda Plowman), trapped in a cave-in, is rescued by locally produced technology, does Washburn realize the value of the capitalistic system. Home Town Story was fitfully distributed by MGM, then lapsed into obscurity. It might have remained there had it not been for the presence of a young Marilyn Monroe in a supporting part. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jeffrey Lynn, Donald Crisp, (more)
- Director(s):
- Arthur Pierson
Synopsis of Home Town Story
Home Town Story was commissioned as a pro-Big Business tract by General Motors. The story revolves around Blake Washburn, a mildly leftist newspaperman, played by Jeffrey Lynn. Returning to his home town, Washburn turns his journalistic vitriol upon the local business interests. Only after his kid sister Katie (Melinda Plowman), trapped in a cave-in, is rescued by locally produced technology, does Washburn realize the value of the capitalistic system. Home Town Story was fitfully distributed by MGM, then lapsed into obscurity. It might have remained there had it not been for the presence of a young Marilyn Monroe in a supporting part. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Home Town Story
- Jeffrey Lynn - Blake Washburn
- Marjorie Reynolds - Janice Hunt
- Barbara Brown - Mrs. Washburn
- Renny McEvoy - Taxi Driver
- Byron Foulger - Berny Miles
- Virginia Campbell - Phoebe Hartman
- Harry Harvey - Andy Butterworth
- Alan Hale, Jr. - Slim Haskins
- Donald Crisp - John MacFarland
- Marilyn Monroe - Iris Martin
- Melinda Plowman - Katie Washburn
- Glenn Tryon - Kenlock
- Griff Barnett - Uncle Cliff
- Nelson Leigh - Mr. Johnson
- Speck Noblett - Motorcycle Officer
- Director(s):
- Arthur Pierson
- Writer(s):
- Arthur Pierson
- Producer(s):
- Arthur Pierson
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