- Joe and Jill are a young couple trying to get a referendum passed which will bring more money for schools. They lose, and decide that not only America, but their marriage has something radically wrong with it. Old librarian Doc and grocer Bill offer the wisdom of the ages and send Tony back into the fray.—Jorge Reinaldo Galindo Porras
- Opening with a defeated school-tax referendum in a small American town, the play presents the audience with a rather unpleasant picture of itself and of the strange, mixed-up state of mind the country is in the beginning of the 60's. Joe and JiIl are a civic-minded couple who have worked long and hard to gain passage of the tax referendum to improve the schools in their community. The action of "The Secret of Freedom" takes place at the outset of the 60's in a typical small American city. The program was filmed entirely in Mount Holly, N J, a town of 15,000, persons 30 miles from Philadelphia, 75 miles from New York. This is the story of Joe (Tony Randall) and Jill (Kim Hunter, a civic-minded couple who have worked long and hard to gain passage of a tax referendum to improve the schools in their town. They are confident of victory, but the referendum is defeated. When Jill hears the news, she grows so angry that she antagonizes Joe and drives him from the house to seek solace and the answer to the bitter questions she has asked him about the town, the times, and the country. answers to the towns attitude. Thomas Mitchell is seen as the tart-tongued town librarian who aids Joe to understand himself and what must be done by thinking citizens, worried about the country's future. Doc was once a teacher and had Jill and Joe as students, no he must egg them to ahead with their struggle in order to achieve their goal. Although Joe is dubious to go ahead, he receives the support from his wife, his colleagues and his neighbors.
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