The Fallbrook Story (1952)

The Fallbrook Story

1952

Documentary History

Synopsis

“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.

Credits

Director

Frank Capra

Cast

Cecil B. DeMille as Self, Introduction

Diane Kettering as Mrs. Edman

Don Porter as Narrator

Floyd Ahrend as GI Sam Edman

Mary M. Melsheimer as Aunt Eadie Hubbard

Crew

Walter Bach (Camera Operator)

Ed Ainsworth (Continuity)