| When Worlds Collide | |
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| Directed by | Rudolph Maté |
| Screenplay by | Sydney Boehm |
| Based on | |
| Produced by | George Pal |
| Starring | Richard Derr Barbara Rush Peter Hansen John Hoyt |
| Cinematography | John F. Seitz W. Howard Greene |
| Edited by | Arthur P. Schmidt |
| Music by | Leith Stevens |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | Paramount Pictures |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $936,000 (estimated) |
| Box office | $1.6 million (US/Canada rentals, 1951)[2] |
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]
The film's storyline concerns the coming destruction of the Earth by a rogue star[Note 1] called Bellus and the desperate efforts to build a space ark to transport a group of men and women to Bellus' single planet, Zyra.
- ^ ""When Worlds Collide"." Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved: July 20, 2013
- ^ "The Top Box Office Hits of 1951." Variety, January 2, 1952.
- ^ Wylie, Philip; Balmer, Edwin (1932). When Worlds Collide. New York City: Lippincott. ASIN B001DABHPS.
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