When Worlds Collide (1951 film)

When Worlds Collide
Directed byRudolph Maté
Screenplay bySydney Boehm
Based on
When Worlds Collide
1933 stories in Blue Book Magazine
by
Produced byGeorge Pal
StarringRichard Derr
Barbara Rush
Peter Hansen
John Hoyt
CinematographyJohn F. Seitz
W. Howard Greene
Edited byArthur P. Schmidt
Music byLeith Stevens
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Paramount Pictures
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • November 15, 1951 (1951-11-15)[1]
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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.

  1. ^ ""When Worlds Collide"." Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved: July 20, 2013
  2. ^ "The Top Box Office Hits of 1951." Variety, January 2, 1952.
  3. ^ Wylie, Philip; Balmer, Edwin (1932). When Worlds Collide. New York City: Lippincott. ASIN B001DABHPS.


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