| Marilyn Monroe Movie: Home Town Story
Movie Home Town Story |  |  | | List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Passion Productions
Salesrank: 148536
Released: February 2, 2002 | | Our Price: $0.01 | | Used Price: $0.01 | | MPAA Rating: Media: DVD | |
Home Town Story Reviews: One of the Best Pro-Business Hollywood Speeches Ever  2008-06-05 - Alright, this is a cheesy movie and there is too little of Marilyn Monroe to make it worth buying if that's all you're looking for (but she looks hot at 24-years-old and in a tight sweater). But it does have businessman John McFarland (played by Donald Crisp) giving one of the best pro-market speeches ever. It's on par with Danny DeVito's great speech in _Other People's Money_.
Is this like your Fifth and Main?  2006-03-21 - Check out the various versions on the Amazon search facility and you'll mostly see Marilyn featured as the main image on most of the DVD boxes, the reality is that she appears for less than five minutes and her dialogue could be read in about two.
I found my copy in a supermarket at such a low price that I wondered if anyone was making anything on it, they were of course. The reason I bought it was the title and the fact that it was made in the early fifties and I was right, it does show everyday life in small-city USA. You'll get to see middle class domestic housing, interior decor, fashions, buses, trains, planes (even a newspaper delivery boy on one of those Cushman motor scooters) and a simple homey story with a bit of economic theory chucked in as well...and that's it.
Without a photo of Ms Monroe on the front nobody would be interested (apart from me of course). It will probably continue to be re-released every few years to attract another wave of new MM fans but it really should have been forgotten decades ago.
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