The tale is a variation ofThe Wizard of Oz (1939)for in this story, three young children assist a space creature to return to his home.He wasn""t there to hurt her, only to affirm his innocence: "I never touched her...There was somebody else here." Before he could explain further, Lt.Thompson held a gun on the young fugitive and arrested him, although he fled (barefooted) but was soon apprehended down the street.[The real blacks in the film only played in minor roles.]Its climactic finale, the suppression of the black hreat to white society by the glorious Ku Klux Klan, helped to assuage some of America""s sexual fears about the rise of defiant, strong (and sexual) black men and the repeal of laws forbidding intermarriage." A line of Russian submarines off the East Coast US ports was troubling, as well as a massive row of attack subs and surface vessels in the North Atlantic - too much firepower for a simple rescue mission.