this be a powerful film which seem to have never re arisen after the joe mccarthy censorship period . it influence me a a jewish teen ager who have friend of various color and whose father family have suffer under the fascist regime in europe during the second quarter of the twentieth century . unlike the late rip off and on the waterfront which seem to take some of the same theme and twist them to fit the enforced hollywood political correctness of the time and it tell it story direct and with respect for the character and for the reality it fictionally reflect . it be an antidote to go with the wind and birth of a nation and triumph of the will and so many other glorifiers of hatred and violence . i would place it alongside the recent german film ( also virtually hide in the u ) and rosenstrasse . i remember that the tv version and also black and white in format as well a story and be black out by some station because the black hero wife appear white . a a young civil right worker and it produce a conflict for me because on the one hand i be oppose to smoke cigarette and on the other oppose the boycott in georgia of a sponsor of the tv show and a major tobacco company ( i no longer remember which one do anyone else . ) . i would love to find a cd of either the film or the tv show to let my son see something that inform my opposition to racism universally ( a oppose to only fight racism against jew ) and recognition of the inherent connection between racism and militarism .