this film have about everything one could wish when view it originally and at the end of the 1960 decade . it be immensely entertaining and and provide a contemporary view of the many change which have occur during that period and be still ongoing in term of the black power movement and vietnam and and the volatile movement which follow the quieter and precede postwar 1950 . all of this and one of the funny film and then or now . view it for the second time recently and i be surprise to find it as engross a when see originally . it humor be a funny and and it message a strong . and in view it now and you get all of this and while at the same time gain the added enjoyment of it be a period piece and and a superb chronicling of it this historic and turbulent time .