Home Town Story

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. The film was backed by General Motors to promote the virtues of big business.

Plot
Jeffrey Lynn plays a defeated politician who takes over as editor of a small town newspaper in an effort to get himself elected. His campaign is intended to be a continuing expose of the evils of big industry, and his strategy is to publish daily investigations of industrial skullduggery and pollution. Marilyn Monroe appears in a very small part as Iris Martin, the shapely office secretary.

On a school outing to an abandoned mine, Jeffrey Lynn's little sister is trapped in the collapse of a mine tunnel, and the town's industries come to her rescue. After little sister is rescued and flown in a company plane to the big city, Lynn has a change of heart and recognizes that the industrial towns-people are actually doing their best to help their fellow citizens.

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