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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. [3]
Jul 3, 2010 · Although both films, War of the Worlds and When Worlds Collide, were produced a few years apart in the early 1950s, they’re a match set of true science fiction adventure! One reason is because of George Pal, the Producer, the Man.
The most influential impact narrative of the interwar years was When Worlds Collide by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie, serialised in 1932 and published in book form the following year.
Dec 18, 2003 · When Worlds Collide was the second of George Pal’s science-fiction classics of the 1950s, made on the tail of the success of Destination Moon (1950). It was as big a success as Destination Moon had been and, like Destination Moon, went on to win that year’s Academy Award for Special Effects.
Synopsis. Sven Bronson, a Swedish astronomer working at an observatory in South Africa, discovers a pair of rogue planets, Bronson Alpha and Bronson Beta, which will soon enter the Solar System. In eight months, they will pass close enough for gravitational forces to cause catastrophic damage to the Earth.
- Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer
- 1933
Feb 22, 2024 · The story begins with the discovery by Sven Bronson, a Swedish astronomer of two rogue, extra-solar planets headed, for an unknown reason, towards Earth. Bronson calculates their trajectories and concludes that, within less than a year, they will pass right through the heart of the solar system.
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When Worlds Collide, which helped spark the 1950s sf-movie boom, was George Pal's second sf production, made after his Destination Moon.
