In 1957-1959 I was night telegrapher on the KCS RR in Port Arthur and went to school in Beaumont during the day, so I saw very few movies. I did see, probably both in 1958, Island in the Sun and The Defiant Ones. I think there was absolutely no attention paid locally to the racial casting in either movie. It was good to see such movies in the regular local theatre in that town in that time, back when gas stations had at best 3 rest rooms--White Men, White Women, Colored.
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