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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1951 DVD Release: 02/01/2000 Format: DVD - Black and White Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 1 mins Studio: Madacy Total Copies: 46 Genres: Drama, Melodrama, Propaganda Film See Also: Home Town Story, Home Town Story, 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, All Movie Guide

Jeffrey Lynn - Blake Washburn
Donald Crisp - John MacFarland
Marjorie Reynolds - Janice Hunt
Marilyn Monroe - Iris Martin