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When Worlds Collide |
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Genre
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Science Fiction,
Sci-Fi Disaster Film.
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Year
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1951 |
Director
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Rudolph Maté.
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Actors
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Richard Derr,
Barbara Rush,
Peter Hanson,
John Hoyt,
Larry Keating,
Judith Ames,
Stephen Chase,
Frank Cady,
Hayden Rorke,
Sandro Giglio,
Mary Murphy,
Laura Elliot,
Kirk Alyn,
Gertrude Astor,
Gene Collins,
James Congdon,
Marcel dela Brosse,
Estelle Etterre,
Sam Finn,
Paul H. Frees,
Arthur Gilmore,
Charmienne Harker,
Ramsay Hill,
W. Wallace Kelley,
Hassan Khayyam,
Rudy Lee,
Freeman Lusk,
William Meader,
Joseph Mell,
Leonard Mudie,
Gay Nelson,
Keith Richards,
John Ridgely,
Frances Sanford,
James Seay,
Queenie Smith,
Harry Stanton,
Robert Sully,
Richard Vath,
Stuart Whitman.
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File
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Runtime: |
81:00 |
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dvd-rip |
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699.59 Mb |
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Storyline:
First published in 1932, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer's speculative novel When Worlds Collide was immediately purchased by Paramount as a possible project for director Cecil B. DeMille. But because none of Paramount's scriptwriters were able to come up with an adequate screen treatment, the property lay on the shelf until 1950, when producer George Pal was casting about for a follow-up to his successful sci-fier Destination Moon. Though the film was top-heavy with special effects, Pal was able to bring When Worlds Collide in for under a million dollars, thanks to an inexpensive cast and a heavy reliance upon stock footage. The story is set in motion when Dr. Cole Henderson (Larry Keating) announces that a extraterrestrial planet is on a collision course with the Earth. No one believes Henderson's story, save for crippled financier Stanton (John Hoyt), who finances the construction of a gigantic spaceship, built for the purpose of transporting selected survivors from the doomed Earth to another Earthlike planet. As it becomes obvious that Henderson's predictions will come true, a worldwide lottery is held to select those people who will be rescued from oblivion by Stanton's spaceship. In the climactic scenes, the worlds do indeed collide, with appropriately spectacular results. But will the spaceship, overloaded with humanity, be able to take off and seek out a Brave New World? Amidst the thrills, a romantic triangle emerges, involving Richard Derr, Barbara Rush and Peter Hanson. |
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