The Fallbrook Story

The Fallbrook Story

Released on
Documentary, History
Runtime
31 mins
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“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.

Cast

  • Mary M. Melsheimer
  • Floyd Ahrend
  • Diane Kettering
  • Don Porter
  • Cecil B. DeMille

Director

  • Frank Capra

Producers

  • Charles Peters
  • Frank Capra

Screenwriter

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