Home Town Story
{{short description|1951 film by Arthur Pierson}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Home Town Story
| image = Home Town Story (1951 film).jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Arthur Pierson
| writer = Arthur Pierson
| producer = Arthur Pierson
| starring = {{ubl|Jeffrey Lynn|Donald Crisp|Marjorie Reynolds|Marilyn Monroe|Alan Hale Jr.}}
| cinematography = Lucien N. Andriot
| editing = William F. Claxton
| music = {{ubl|Louis Forbes|Alfred Newman}}
| distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
| released = {{Film date|1951|05|18}}
| runtime = 61 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross = $334,000{{Citation | title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger | publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study | place = Los Angeles}}.
}}
Home Town Story is a 1951 American drama film written and directed by Arthur Pierson, starring Jeffrey Lynn, Donald Crisp, and Marjorie Reynolds, with Marilyn Monroe and Alan Hale Jr.
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 exposé 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 film delivered by MacFarland, the maker of the medical device that saved the sister.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- 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
References
{{reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb title}}
- {{Internet Archive film|HomeTownStory}}
- {{Rotten Tomatoes}}
- {{AFI film}}
- {{TCMDb title}}
Category:1950s English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Arthur Pierson
Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Category:Films scored by Alfred Newman
{{1950s-US-drama-film-stub}}