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When Worlds Collide [DVD] [1951] starring: Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen, John Hoyt, Larry Keating

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Publisher: Paramount Home Entertainment
Release date: 23rd September, 2002
Media: DVD

Audio Formats

English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired)

Subtitles

English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish

Format

• Dubbed
• Full Screen
• PAL

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Rating: - overlooked classic

this overlooked classic sci fi has always had a place in my heart, what would we all do if this did really happen , it is s simple film without many special effects but still a classic and should be in anybodys collection

Rating: - A classic of 1950sci-fi movie

In the film directed by Rudolph Maté (director of photography among others by Orson Welles), apart from the aircraft pilot David (Richard Derr), we have a group of characters as the protagonists 'special': scientists (astronomer played by Larry Hendron Keating and his daughter Joyce), doctors (Peter Hanson), engineers and technicians intent to build a spacecraft capable of reaching Zyra (not to destroy but to live there) and Stanton (John Hoyt) a lender in a wheelchair but arrogant.The scientists who discovered the two bodies that will destroy the Earth, as tradition says, are not believed at first. Unnecessarily even agree a session of the UN received only skepticism and derision. Regardless, their plans to cut the rope going on everyone doing his job without batting an eye knowing that many of them will not rise because Hendron has determined that all the workers only part drawn by lot the last time you can get sull'astronave and escape. Meanwhile, Tony Drake, the doctor discovers that his girlfriend Joyce (Barbara Rush future star by Jack Arnold and by Douglas Sirk) is attracted to David. Teams work hard to make up for delays on the roadmap while the stellar double threat is becoming closer. The passage of Zyra cause evacuations from coastal cities, earthquakes, eruptions, tidal waves, floods, collapse of glaciers, fires, scenes of panic, dead at will. Nineteen days after Bellus will destroy the earth melting
mankind who has to close, when realize that Hendron and Co. were right, as usual, will bring out the worst or the best. Some people will choose as a final gift for the human altruism by giving his invaluable place on the spaceship, who will kill just to climb at all costs (as predicted Stanton.) Strongly backed by George Pal (Producer returning from fresh success of Destination Moon, from there to two years the producer of The War of the Worlds and future director of The Man who lived in the future), When Worlds Collide surprised viewers of the time for the extraordinary effects. Almost one million dollars in 1951!, Were used for their implementation; money rewarded by fabulous box office and the OSCE for the special effects that is to say that still affect the relative effects of the transition Zyra, while those who describe the destruction of the earth leaves much to be desired. Much the same goes for the sets, department has certainly benefited from a smaller budget, clearly "background" built to depict the landscape of Zrya. In short, a film that if it were not for that ending ...

Rating: - A favourite classic

This is a favourite of classic 1950's Sci-fi, much better in my opinion than the souless offerings made today.

Highly recommended for anyone who enjoys the genre.

Rating: - The Daddy of Ends of the World

Great original end of days movie. Forget Aamageddon and Impact. Watch the log cabin get wiped out by the river ! We are all doomed !
The DVD arrived within 3 days of order.No problems. If you want to see how 1950`s sci fi has influenced todays genre then see this.

Keith Mckenzie...Bromley.Kent

Rating: - Saturday matineé material!

This early fifties sci-fi offering is of course utter tosh! So bad it's become good! It is now watchable for the laughs! There is so much wrong with the film story by the standards that have developed since those simple days, that the movie represents a 'how not to do it!' example.

Lets begin. The fastest developed space craft on record. The pilots (you can hardly call them astronauts) are dressed as if about to depart on a trek to the south pole around 1912. The passengers (the selected few from the entire world population) sitting side by side in rows of seating as if off on an open topped hovercraft for a tour of a local coastline.
There are apparently no worries about spacecraft pressurisation or other
such inconveniences. And after wobbling into the air from it's launch ramp, low and behold they had not considered how to land the thing once it has arrived whereever they thought they were going! And as for variously coloured planets, stars and other assorted objects in the voids of space moving about as the odd draught of wind caught the painted cloth backdrop scenery...well I ask you! Utter tosh in the extreme! But strangely compulsively watchable. Well there never was any accounting for taste !

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