The Fallbrook Story (1952)
31m
Running Time
January 1, 1952Release Date
The Fallbrook Story (1952)
31m
Running Time
January 1, 1952Release Date

Plot.
“The Fallbrook Story,” is a 20-minute film of Cold War-era uneasiness in which director Frank Capra rails against what he calls the evils of Big Bureaucracy. In 1951, Capra lived in Fallbrook, California on his 1,000-acre Red Mountain Ranch farm filled with olive groves. The federal government, which had purchased the old Rancho Santa Margarita land in 1941 to build Camp Pendleton, was concerned that ranchers upstream would take or pollute the Santa Margarita River, which ran through Camp Pendleton. Capra’s film documents how Fallbrook residents fought back against the federal government.
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Cast & Crew.

Mary M. Melsheimer
Aunt Eadie Hubbard

Floyd Ahrend
GI Sam Edman

Diane Kettering
Mrs. Edman

Don Porter
Narrator

Cecil B. DeMille
Self, Introduction

Charles Peters
Producer

Ed Ainsworth
Script / Continuity

Bill Heald
Story Consultant

Vic Westfall
Story Consultant

Lloyd Williams
Story Consultant

Frank Capra
Producer / Director
