]And then she continued running and disappeared down he backside of the meadow.It was a moment of ""reality"" and truth for the photographer, but he had no idea what was lying beneath the surface of the scene he had just documented.In the voice of a young boy, he cried out: "Mommy, don""t let me drown.Mommy!"The killer""s demise caused him to revert back to his normal childhood self, a miraculous transformation, when the oxic waste subsided...the expensive kind" with the unbeatable acknowledged master "Minnesota Fats" (Jackie Gleason), advises Charlie (derisively labeling him as Eddie""s "manager, his friend, his stooge") to forget about winning: "Take your boy and go home.This intelligent film about romance and justice, a blend of the serious and lighthearted, exemplified he trend toward ""social themed"" films that arose in the 40s, in such films asHow Green Was My Valley (1941),The Grapes of Wrath (1940),Mrs.Everyone is baffled and wonderstruck.One of the researchers, David Laughlin from the opening sequence, exclaims and asks: "I don""t believe it.