Small Town Story

Small Town Story

1953 · 69 min · ★ 5.9 · Drama

Canadian ex-serviceman Bob Regan returns to Oldchester, the English town where he was posted during the war. Meeting up with his friend Mike, now manager of the local football club, he discovers that Oldchester are desperate for promotion as they stand to inherit £25,000 from recently deceased supporter Wallace Hammond if they make the Third Division a situation that Hammond's devious nephew finds intolerable...

Directed by Montgomery Tully · Written by Franz Marischka

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