i remember first see this movie in the 50 on tv a a kid and i enjoy it then a a social commentary and just a reasonably good story . yeah and some of it be outdated now but the movie hold up a i recall when i have see it in subsequent year . i haven not see it in at least 15 year though . i think the way everything escalate from just the innocent bump by an excited father to the race riot be present well . a the situation develop and you get involve with the two side . the tell moment come when black and white mob be about to slug it out with board and gun and whatever and a child run up to the leader of the white mob and say and they find the kid and and he say and what kid . and then you realize you too be catch up in the action of mob violence . the mob exist and not to right some perceive wrong and but be the people justification for their life at that moment .