Sci-Fi When Worlds Collide (1951)

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Title: When Worlds Collide (1951)

Tagline: Planets destroy earth!

Genre: Science Fiction

Director: Rudolph Maté

Cast: Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen, John Hoyt, Larry Keating, Rachel Ames, Stephen Chase, Frank Cady, Hayden Rorke, Sandro Giglio, Kirk Alyn, James Congdon, Gertrude Astor, Robert Chapman, Gene Collins, Marcel De La Brosse, Estelle Etterre, Paul Frees, Gay Nelson, Edna Smith, Mary Murphy

Release: 1951-09-14

Runtime: 83

Plot: When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet.
When Worlds Collide (1951)

 
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Boy, ya gotta love a movie that promises big things like this --

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-- and doesn't disappoint its audience one little bit.

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This must have been a real crowd-pleaser in 1951, and it kept right on doing that through several re-releases over the years, including one in the 1980 when it was co-billed with War of the Worlds at the last of the drive-in theaters around the country.

Of all the 1950s movies that featured great "practical FX" (models and miniature landscapes), this one is a showcase for state-of-the-art work in that area.

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The finished product is still a joy to behold, despite all the advances in special effects over the last 64 years.

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The characters are very appealing, and the story moves right along. The cast is a real plus, too.

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I wish they'd made the sequel -- After Worlds Collide -- that was planned but never went into production.
 
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It took me three days of intense work on the Archive.org scans of the When Worlds Collide comic to completely restore them, but I enjoyed every minute of it!

Click on each page here to see a large, version you can zoom in on. Click on the large version again, and then zoom in as close as you want!

I think you'll be pleased by how great the artwork looks after I did the best I could to make it look much more like it did on the artist's drawing board than what was finally put on newsprint paper in the comic and then allowed to deteriorate over time.

I was amazed at the fine artwork I discovered when I used Paint.net to bring this wonderful comic back to life. :D

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amazed they didn't remake that last few years with all the other disaster movies

btw its 'When Worlds Collide' no apostrophe

thanks for graphics!
 
Oh heck, thanks Kolchak! I can't edit it. It's too old to have an edit button anymore. Which site admin could fix the title of the thread for me?
 

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