A local talk show host in Connecticut gave it an execllent review. People in Connecticut are especially interested because one of the four communities featured is Waterbury, CT.
“People in Connecticut are especially interested because one of the four
communities featured is Waterbury, CT.”
It sure was a wonderful image of WWII-era Waterbury in the film.
Hard-working immigrants (forgive me for saying it...legal immigrants),
doing the sort of precision work/machining that is seen as a loser’s profession
in today’s USA.
I got my mom (nine years old in north-central OK on Dec. 7, 1941) to
watch Part 1.
I said to her (about the small town America vignettes): “It was a
simpler times.”
She said “You’re darned right it was!”