re: #40 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

This person still butthurt over the next Doctor Who having too much melanin:

There’s been a grossly disproportionate increase in nonwhite and specifically black characters across our media.

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I know a Trump-yokel who bitches about this constantly, specializing in commercials. I wonder if he understands just how many black and Hispanic people there are in the real world.
*Spoilers*
On a related note, I just finished re-watching When Worlds Collide, George Pal’s end of the world sci-fi epic from 1951. It is one of my favorite old time SF films, mostly because of then 24 year old Barbara Rush, with whom I fell in love the first time I saw the movie. There is also a nifty V-2 inspired spaceship, a decently paced if rather hokey script, and a very good cast all round. I did notice though, that there is not a single person of color in the movie, except an Indian UN delegate who spreaks briefly. In particular, the 40 survivors who escape the destruction of the Earth are all noticeably white. This is even though part of it is set in South Africa and the rest in and near New York City in contemporary times. Interestingly, the book it’s based on, written by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie in 1933, does have non-white characters.

Pal’s other Sci-fi productions, War of the Worlds (1953) and Destination Moon (1950) also lack non-white characters, though, again, the circumstances of the plot are such that non-white people would almost certainly be present. WoW does have a Hispanic character who is something of a stereotyped buffoon, though he does turn out to be the only one in his small group to exhibit any sense. A lot of this happens in Los Angeles, with large crowds of extras, but not a single black person.
I don’t know if Pal and director Byron Haskin were actively racist or if they just decided not to take chances with racist sensibilities in the audience (all too easily triggered at the time).