Great Speech in "Home Town Story"

This is a speech to rival that of Danny DeVito's in _Other People's Money_. John McFarland (middle), the owner of McFarland Motors, pays a visit to Blake Washburn (on left), the editor of a local newspaper. Washburn lost his senate re-election bid to McFarland's son. He decides to retaliate against McFarland by writing editorials disparaging big businesses. Alan Hale, Jr. of _Gilligan's Island_ fame is on the rights.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• economics
• business
• profit
• ethics
• media
• film
• other people's money
• marilyn monroe

[RushLimborg]

They just don't make movies like this anymore. Nowadays, liberal journalists like Blake Washburn would be the heroes of the movie, and McFarland would be a "greedy exploiter" who mistreats his workers, gouges his customers, and so on.

Shame. This is an excellent scene. I wish we had more businessmen like McFarland today, who aren't afraid to give Keith Olbermann and Michael Moore a talking to....

[RushLimborg]

Awesome clip!

[indiesixtynine]

This is a great clip, but WOW... anti-corporate sentiment simplified to the point of "Big is Bad".. pretty pandering and kind of not very genuine. Overlooking details that would exist in a real-world scenario. But I'm sure well-loved in conservative apologist circles. Back when you could trace a large company's decisions back to a single, responsible, good man, this made more sense. In the US, we've granted corporations the rights of individual people. A far cry to say the least. Still 5 stars

[pr0gm3r]

You have a tag price on your back Blake $5/hour.

Since profits is introduces there is assets so everything has net worth. No more human value, then it is replace by number.

[i4Truth]

Outstanding clip, thanks for sharing.....