Home Town Story (1951) on Netflix

Plot summary

Blake Washburn loses his seat in the state legislature and holds the manufacturer John MacFarland responsible for the defeat. He comes back to his home town and takes charge of the Herald, the newspaper his uncle Cliff runs. There he turns the paper against large corporations, and day after day it attacks the profits that enrich shareholders. Washburn means the campaign to return him to the legislature at the next election, and he sees how the paper's editorials reach its readers. Iris Martin works in the Herald office alongside him, and Washburn's younger sister Katie is a schoolgirl in the town.