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List Price: $7.98 | | Label: Alpha Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 103452
Released: June 26, 2007 |
| Our Price: $2.24 |
| Used Price: $6.54 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A radical young reporter taints a village and local politicians with his vitriolic criticism of small town ethics. Contains one of Marilyn Monroe's earliest screen appearances.
Home Town Story Reviews:
Hometown sore loser 
2009-06-11 - Before HOME TOWN STORY, Marilyn Monroe had minor parts in a dozen pictures, most notably THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950) and ALL ABOUT EVE (1950). Hers is a peripheral role here, as well. "Home Town Story" is a ''B" grade MGM programmer.
SYNOPSIS--
State senator Blake Washburn (Lynn) is voted out of office. He believes Bob MacFarland (Beaumont), son of wealthy businessman John, tricked the electorate into voting for him, so Blake uses his editor's position on the family newspaper to search for dirt on his victorious opponent. His editorials attack MacFarland-owned companies, also the new state senator and other lawmakers.
Blake's hostilities soon extend to local corporations. Star reporter Slim Haskins (Hale) doesn't like this last idea and gets punished for saying so with menial story assignments. When Blake admits to fiancée Janice Hunt (Reynolds) that he's broken a promise to work for the people and is using the paper only to get re-elected, she threatens to leave him. Slim and Blake argue and start throwing punches; while they fight, John MacFarland arrives to complain about Blake's editorials against him and his son.
ALPHA VIDEO is a provider of vintage programming that's often unavailable elsewhere. Alpha's prices are fair, but so is transfer quality of some of their offerings. None have undergone restoration, yet this product's rareness and reasonable cost make it a worthwhile purchase.
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DELINQUENT DAUGHTERS (1944) features glamorous Fifi D'Orsay. Known as the French Bombshell, Fifi was actually Canadian.
Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 viewer poll rating found at a film resource website.
(5.3) Home Town Story (1951) - Jeffrey Lynn/Donald Crisp/Marjorie Reynolds/Alan Hale Jr./Marlyn Monroe (uncredited: Hugh Beaumont/John Archer/Hal Taggart/Tom Keene)
MM's Earliest Movie Role 
2009-06-10 - Monroe has just a few minutes in this 1952 film, in only two brief sequences, but completely steals both scenes. Remarkable early MM footage! Home Town Story
