Home Town Story (Hometown Story) (1951)
Release Date: May 1, 1951 Wide
Release Date: May 1, 1951 Wide
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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
May 1, 1951 Wide
Jun 26, 2007
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Jeffrey Lynn
Blake Washburn -
Donald Crisp
John MacFarland -
Marjorie Reynolds
Janice Hunt -
Marilyn Monroe
Iris Martin -
Barbara Brown
Mrs. Washburn -
Melinda Plowman
Katie Washburn -
Renny McEvoy
Taxi Driver -
Glenn Tryon
Kenlock -
Byron Foulger
Berny Miles -
Griff Barnett
Uncle Cliff -
Virginia Campbell
Phoebe Hartman -
Nelson Leigh
Mr. Johnson -
Harry Harvey
Andy Butterworth -
Speck Noblett
Motorcycle Officer -
Alan Hale Jr.
Slim Haskins
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