Product Details

• Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Jeffrey Lynne, Marjorie Reyonlds
• Directors: Unkn
• Format: Full Screen, NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Digiview Productions
• DVD Release Date: April 4, 2004
• Run Time: 61 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00080MAZU
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #208,559 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description
Marilyn Manroe makes a brief, but memorable apperrance in this delightful film that tells the cautionary of what can happen when one takess a close-minded, singular view of the world around them. Jeffrey Lynne plays Blacke Washburn, an embittered newspaper reporter with a negative view of the business world. Only when catastrophe strikes, and local business interests intervene to avert a tragedy, can Washburn begin to accept that perhaps there are two sides to every story.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice Plot , April 27, 2005

By	Dr. W. G. Covington, Jr. (Edinboro, Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This is a film about media ethics. It shows that not all would-be muckrakers are right, that assumptions can be wrong. Objectivity in journalism is the theme of the story. Jeffrey Lynne plays Blake Washburn, a politician who has been defeated in a recent election. He returns to his hometown to edit the local newspaper. In the process, his subjectivity distorts his decision making.

Alan Hale, Jr. (the Skipper of "Gilligan's Island) is a reporter working for Washburn who sees what is happening to his friend and boss. He tries unsuccessfully to help him see that he has a distorted view of reality. Washburn doesn't listen and continues to turn out negative content. He criticizes local businesses and one of the owners approaches him to discuss fairness.

In the end, Washburn's younger sister is saved by the very corporation he defamed. Washburn learns the error of his ways and changes. Marily Monroe is one of the secretaries. Alan Hale, Jr.'s character tries to get a relationship going with her, but doesn't make it happen. Overall this is a well done film.