
Jimmy Duncan, the son of the well-respected Reverend Duncan, takes over his local newspaper as manager. He takes on the criminal element in town with great vigor, until he realizes that his own father is in league with those devils.

Larry Evans
United States

The projector crackles; nitrate ghosts jitter across the screen, and suddenly the twentieth century feels like yesterday. His Own Home Town is less a quaint curio from 1922 than a scalpel still warm from flesh. Larry Evans’ screenplay—tight as a noose—delivers a parable about American self-mythology: the newspaperman ...

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Victor Schertzinger

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" The projector crackles; nitrate ghosts jitter across the screen, and suddenly the twentieth century feels like yesterday. His Own Home Town is less a quaint curio from 1922 than a scalpel still warm from flesh. Larry Evans’ screenplay—tight as a noose—delivers a parable about American self-mythology: the newspaperman who can shame the devil until he discovers the devil’s cufflinks match his own DNA. Andrew Arbuckle plays Jimmy Duncan with the restless energy of a man who mistakes moral clarity..."


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