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Home Town Story
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Wikipedia article
'Home Town Story' is a 1951 American drama film directed by Arthur Pierson and starring Jeffrey Lynn, Donald Crisp, and Alan Hale, Jr. The film features Marilyn Monroe in a small, early role.
Plot
A defeated politician, Blake Washburn, takes over as editor of a small town newspaper in an effort to get himself re-elected. His campaign is intended to be a continuing expos of the evils of big industry, and his strategy is to publish daily screeds against enormous corporate profits that enrich shareholders.
On a school outing to an abandoned mine, Washburn's little sister is trapped in the collapse of a mine tunnel caused as the result of a disgruntled employee's negligence, and the town's industries come to her rescue. The sister is rescued and flown in a company plane to the big city, and Washburn has a change of heart and recognizes that big corporations are necessary because, "It takes bigness to do big things," a line in the movie delivered by MacFarland, the maker of the medical device that saved the sister.
Cast
* Jeffrey Lynn as Blake Washburn
* Donald Crisp as John MacFarland
* Marjorie Reynolds as Janice Hunt
* Alan Hale Jr. as Slim Haskins
* Marilyn Monroe as Iris Martin
* Barbara Brown as Mrs. Washburn
* Melinda Plowman as Katie Washburn
* Renny McEvoy as Leo, the Taxi Driver
* Glenn Tryon as Ken Kenlock
* Byron Foulger as Berny Miles
* Griff Barnett as Uncle Cliff Washburn
* Virginia Campbell as Phoebe Hartman
* Harry Harvey as Andy Butterworth
* Nelson Leigh as Dr. Johnson
* Speck Noblitt as Motorcycle officer
Reception
According to MGM records the film made $243,000 in the US and Canada and $91,000 elsewhere, making a profit of $195,000.
References
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