It was our curfew, and our fire alarm. Why, we even set our clocks by it. Well, we soon...
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[first lines] Narrator:
[voice over as the camera pans through a small town]
More than half the people of the U.S.A. live in small towns, places no larger than ours, Eaton Falls, New Hampshire. With most of us here in Eaton Falls, our ties are so strong, we just couldn't be happy livin' anyplace else. But you never know how tightly chained you are to a town until real trouble sets in, like that morning last fall when our whistle didn't blow. Why, as long as anyone could remember, that whistle marked the beginnin' and end of every workin' day: it was our curfew, and our fire alarm. Why, we even set our clocks by it. Well, we soon found out why the whistle was silent. The ol' Granite State Shoe Company had closed down - closed down for good - and that meant a lot of folks had lost their jobs
[voice over as the camera pans through a small town]
More than half the people of the U.S.A. live in small towns, places no larger than ours, Eaton Falls, New Hampshire. With most of us here in Eaton Falls, our ties are so strong, we just couldn't be happy livin' anyplace else. But you never know how tightly chained you are to a town until real trouble sets in, like that morning last fall when our whistle didn't blow. Why, as long as anyone could remember, that whistle marked the beginnin' and end of every workin' day: it was our curfew, and our fire alarm. Why, we even set our clocks by it. Well, we soon found out why the whistle was silent. The ol' Granite State Shoe Company had closed down - closed down for good - and that meant a lot of folks had lost their jobs
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will remove that man from this meeting
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Nobody's removing anybody until I'm finished
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What'd he do
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He sells out
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And with the blood money he buys himself a new house
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He's gotta live in style while the rest of us starve
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That's right
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We're all starving
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Who's working no one Shut up you guys shut up
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And you know it You're crazy
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That's not so
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They've given us the house and once more
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Brad cut his salary the day the plant closed
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We gotta stick together
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Either none of us goes back or we all go back
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Right Right
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Wait a minute
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I say let Doubleday make jobs
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Movie Summary
Brad Adams is the new manager of a manufacturing plant in a small New Hampshire town. He is brought in by owner Mrs. Doubleday to calm labor relations plus layoff employees. Brad manages to also find romance.
Actors
Bill Street
