The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951) DVD-R

Starring Lloyd Bridges, Dorothy Gish, Carleton Carpenter, Murray Hamilton, James Westerfield
Directed by Robert Siodmak

Print: Black and White
Runtime:96 min.
Genre: Drama

Upon the bankruptcy and auctioning off of the Granite State Shoe company in the small town of Eaton Falls, New Hampshire, the community's economic hopes, as well as its historic whistle, are passed on to the last surviving local company, Doubleday Plastics. Chief machinist and local union leader Brad Adams meets with Doubleday's president Daniel Doubleday to learn that the company's earnings have plummeted due to soaring production costs associated with outdated machinery. When Brad states that the machinists would welcome modern equipment, Dan admits that the only way for the company to afford new machines and remain solvent would be for half of the workers to be laid off. Brad protests that the union would never agree and suggests that Dan use the remaining company profits to keep everyone employed. Dan discloses that he has already reinvested the profits into the company, which still verges on bankruptcy.