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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.
1951 · Directed by Rudolph Maté · 83 min · Science Fiction · Drama · 13 frames
Tagline
Planets destroy earth!
Crew
- Screenplay: Sydney Boehm
- Cinematography: W. Howard Greene, John F. Seitz
- Edited by: Arthur P. Schmidt
- Music: Leith Stevens
- Produced by: George Pal
Cast
- Richard Derr as David Randall
- Barbara Rush as Joyce Hendron
- Peter Hansen as Dr. Tony Drake
- John Hoyt as Sydney Stanton
- Larry Keating as Dr. Cole Hendron
- Rachel Ames as Julie Cummings
- Stephen Chase as Dr. George Frye
- Frank Cady as Harold Ferris
- Hayden Rorke as Dr. Emery Bronson
- Sandro Giglio as Dr. Ottinger
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, French, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish
- Studios: Paramount Pictures
- Budget: $936,000
- Box office: $1,600,000
- Themes: new york city, based on novel or book, space travel, meteor, rocket, end of the world, disaster, armageddon, doomsday, flood
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