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Home Town Story
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Synopsis
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, All Movie Guide

Cast

Griff Barnett Uncle Cliff
Barbara Brown Mrs. Washburn
Virginia Campbell Phoebe Hartman
Byron Foulger Berny Miles
Nelson Leigh Mr. Johnson
Jeffrey Lynn Blake Washburn
Renny McEvoy Taxi Driver
Marilyn Monroe Iris Martin
Melinda Plowman Katie Washburn
Marjorie Reynolds Janice Hunt
Donald Crisp John MacFarland
Glenn Tryon Kenlock

Production Crew

Hilyard M. Brown Art Director
Lucien Andriot Cinematographer
Louis Forbes Composer (Music Score)
Arthur Pierson Director
William F. Claxton Editor
Arthur Pierson Producer
Arthur Pierson Screenwriter
Year: 1951
Runtime: 61
Country: USA
MPAA Rating:
Category: Feature

Genre
Drama

Produced by
MGM