When Worlds Collide

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When Worlds Collide

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Release Date:	10/24/2017
UPC:	0032429286765
Original Release:	0000
Source:	PARAMOUNT H
Language:	English
Sales rank:	4,315

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Performance Credits

Richard Derr	Dave Randall
Barbara Rush	Joyce Hendron
John Hoyt	Sydney Stanton
Larry Keating	Dr. Cole Hendron
Peter Hanson	Dr. Tony Drake
Judith Ames	Julie Cummings,Actor
Stephen Chase	Dr. Dean George Frey
Frank Cady	Harold Ferris
Hayden Rorke	Dr. Emory Bronson
Sandro Giglio	Ottinger
Laura Elliott	Stewardess
James Congdon	Eddie Garson
Frances Sanford	Alice
Freeman Lusk	Rudolph Marston
Joseph Mell	Glen Spiro
Marcel de la Brosse	Headwaiter
Queenie Smith	Matron
Leonard Mudie	British UN Representative
Art Gilmore	Paul,Paul
Keith Richards	Stanley
Gay Nelson	Leda
Rudy Lee	Mike
John Ridgely	Chief Airport Inspector
James Seay	Reporter at Airport
Harry Stanton	Dr. Zenta
Hassan Khayyam	Indian Chairman
Bill Meader	Clerk,Clerk
Ramsey Hill	Frenchman
Gene Collins	Newsdealer
Sam Finn	Traveler
Gertrude Astor	Traveler
Estelle Etterre	Traveler
Mary Murphy	Student
Stuart Whitman	Student
Kirk Alyn	Student
Robert Chapman	Student
Charmienne Harker	Student
Walter Kelley	Student
Chad Madison	Student
Dolores Mann	Student
Robert Sully	Student
Richard Vath	Student
Paul Frees	Narrator,Narrator
Leith Stevens	Composer

Technical Credits

Harry Barndollar	Special Effects
Gordon Jennings	Special Effects
George Pal	Producer
Sydney Boehm	Screenwriter
Gene Merritt	Sound/Sound Designer
Walter Oberst	Sound/Sound Designer

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Even though the acting in this 1951 production is mostly average, the film is nonetheless praiseworthy for its special effects and lickety-split pacing. From the opening scene to the last, the film races along as scientists scramble to cope with the ultimate disaster -- the end of the world. Legendary special-effects guru George Pal dots the sky with an ominous speck that soon burgeons into a great fireball -- a sun-sized body called Bellus -- as it hurtles toward earth. As civilization awaits doom, calendars display only one image -- the number of days remaining before impact. Americans work day and night to construct a rocket ship, a modern Noah's ark, to transport a lucky few to a new planet, Zyra, that will pass Earth just before the collision. The final scenes of the film stretch nerves as the sky reddens and a desperate mob storms the ship. Actors Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, John Hoyt, and Larry Keating play the principal roles with yeomanly competence, but the script is not strong enough to allow them to wax poetic or philosophical. The real star here, besides Bellus, is George Pal. Born in Hungary, Pal migrated to the U.S. after Hitler's rise to power and learned rocketry basics after befriending German immigrant scientists Willey Ley and Wernher von Braun. He used this knowledge to build the film's spaceship, a rocket that fires up in a horizontal position on a ramp. As the rocket gains speed, the ramp rises like a roller coaster. Artist Chesley Bonestell, who illustrated space scenes for scientists and writers and contributed to Life magazine, helped Pal create his special effects.

When Worlds Collide

When Worlds Collide

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DVD (Wide Screen / Subtitled / Dubbed)

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