Wars of the World

It's been a good while but I re-watched The War of The Worlds - the original version (1953) - yesterday. I had forgotten lots of it, including the growth of the relationship between Dr Clayton Forrester and Sylvia van Buren. It was interesting to see this relationship re-visited in the re-make of TWOTW where the actors made a cameo appearance as Tom Cruise's character's wife's parents in the final scenes of that film. Besides the very different plot details of the two offerings, another obvious point of difference was the original's lack of non-white faces/actors.