this movie be of almost generation define importance to some of u bear in the early post war year in that ( and especially if you be bear between 1946 and 1953 and love spending saturday afternoon at your neighborhood movie house ) you almost certainly saw it . and the memory of see it have probably stay with you . it style be the stuff of a brief and somehow gloriously exciting moment in our grow up day . it have a modern and space age storyboard for the audience of it time . the set be any town with a supermarket and a movie theater that would be pack for a friday midnight show . it have hot rod and rebellious youth and but in the why can not they let u have fun way rather than the disturbed and histrionic rebel without a cause way . all character be identifiable to u teen and parent and the old man and the doctor and the nurse and the mechanic and the boy and the puppy and even the cop be sympathetic to u . we could relate to them allit have a singularly horrifying monster . it first victim be hear moan it hurt . it hurt and we be convince and frighten . the menace grow continually throughout the story . there be intense period of suspense and colourful effect and a fabulous lead in mcqueen and and moment of humour and both intend and not . it even have an almost over the top sad part to make the more sensitive of u feel like cry . i saw it in summer and age 9 or so and double bill with i marry a monster from out space and and be so thrill by the experience of this particular double feature that i go back a couple more time before it leave . everyone i know saw it . everyone i know love it .