The Shock of the worlds (film, 1951)

the Shock of the worlds ( When Worlds Collide ) is an American film carried out by Rudolph Maté, left in 1951.

Synopsis

According to calculations of professor Bronson of the Cape, the Bellus planet sinks towards the Earth. Alerted by the scientist, professor Hendron of the observatory of New York confirms his forecasts: it remains less than 8 months before the inevitable collision with Bellus, 12 times larger than the Earth, and the end of the world is close. However the the United Nations, incrédules, refuse to take least action. Thanks to the capital of the banker Sydney Stanton, an small group directed by Hendron then decides to build a spaceship in order to colonize the satellite of Bellus, Zyra, of which the atmosphere is similar to that of the Earth and who should escape from the shock between the Earth and Bellus. If this “interplanetary Arche of Noah” is completed in time, 40 men and women, drawn with the fate among selected profiles (engineers, technicians, farmers, etc), will be able to escape the catastrophe and to perpetuate the species on Zyra.

Data sheet

  • Title: the Shock of the worlds
  • original Title: When Worlds Collide
  • Realization: Rudolph Subdued
  • Scenario: Sydney Boehm, according to the novel the Shock of the worlds of Philip Gordon Wylie and Edwin Balmer
  • Production: George Pál for the Paramount Pictures
  • Budget: 936.000 dollars (687 000 euros)
  • Music: Leith Stevens
  • Photography: W. Howard Greene and John F. Seitz
  • Assembly: Arthur Schmidt
  • Artistic director: Albert Nozaki and Hall Pereira
  • Costumes: Edith Head
  • Country of origin: The United States
  • Format: Colors - 1,37:1 - Mono - 35 mm
  • Lasted: 85 minutes
  • Coming out date: August 1951 (the United States)

Distribution

Around film

  • For their novels, Philip Gordon Wylie and Edwin Balmer took as a starting point the biblical chapters of the Apocalypse and the Arche of Noah. In the same way, the film opens on a plan of the Bible.
  • Taking into account the success of film, George Pál considered a time to turn the continuation, After the shock of the worlds ( After Worlds Collide ), and required of Paramount to acquire the rights of them.
  • In the final plan, the sight of Zyra is clearly a painting. This one was in the beginning used for the promotion of film, and the producer George Pál then hoped to use a model to represent the surface of Zyra but Paramount left film before the model is not finished.
  • Steven Spielberg announced that it would be the Executive producer of a new version which should arrive on the screens towards 2008. The film would be a coproduction Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks directed by Stephen Sommers.

Distinctions

External bonds

  • the Shock of the worlds on Internet Movie Database
  • Critical DevilDead

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