When Worlds Collide(Movie, 1951)

Name: When Worlds Collide
Genre: Science Fiction
Released: 1951
Duration: T01:23:00
Rating: 3.2

Rating: 3.2/5 (with 79 votes)

When Worlds Collide is a 1951 American science fiction disaster film released by Paramount Pictures. It was produced by George Pal, directed by Rudolph Maté, and stars Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen, and John Hoyt. The film is based on the 1933 science fiction novel of the same name, co-written by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie. The film's storyline concerns the coming destruction of the Earth by a rogue star called Bellus and the desperate efforts to build a space ark to transport a group of men and women to Bellus' single planet, Zyra. ()

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Awards & Nominations for When Worlds Collide

Academy Award for Best Special Effects nominated for: Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color nominated for: Academy Award for Best Special Effects

About When Worlds Collide

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.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: New York, Washington D.C., South Africa

Based on: "When Worlds Collide" (find it on Amazon)

Made by: Paramount Pictures

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hindi (HI), Portuguese (PT)

Translated into 14 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 11/05/1951 (World premiere: 09/14/1951)

Cast: Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen, John Hoyt, Rachel Ames, Hayden Rorke, Sandro Giglio, Frank Cady, Larry Keating, Queenie Smith, Stuart Whitman, Leonard Mudie

Director: Rudolph Maté

Producer: George Pal

Screenwriter: Sydney Boehm

Executive Producer: Cecil B. DeMille

Film Editor: Arthur P. Schmidt

Director of Photography: W. Howard Greene, John F. Seitz

Composer: Leith Stevens

Costume designer: Edith Head

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Le Choc des mondes"

"O Fim do Mundo"

"Cuando los mundos chocan"

Keywords: space travel, rocket, doomsday, disaster, destruction of earth, meteor, flood, end of the world, armageddon, new york city, based on novel or book, tidal wave

Budget: 936,000 USD

Revenue: 1,600,000 USD (= 171%)

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When Worlds Collide(Movie, 1951)

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