This is a NEAR-MINT condition, vintage ORIGINAL 16mm,
BEAUTIFUL dye-transfer TECHNICOLOR sound movie print
of the
entertaining 1951 science fiction adventure feature length motion picture classic titled...
"WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE"
Director: Rudolph Maté
Producer: George Pal
ONE OF THE VERY BEST SCI-FI MOVIES OF ALL TIME!
First published in 1932, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer's speculative novel When Worlds Collide was immediately purchased by Paramount as a possible project for director Cecil B. DeMille.
But because none of Paramount's scriptwriters were able to come up with
an adequate screen treatment, the property lay on the shelf until 1950,
when producer George Pal was casting about for a follow-up to his successful sci-fier Destination Moon. Though the film was top-heavy with special effects, Pal was able to bring When Worlds Collide
in for under a million dollars. The story is set in motion when Dr.
Cole Henderson (Larry Keating)
announces that a extraterrestrial planet is on a collision course with
the Earth. No one believes Henderson's story, save for crippled
financier Stanton (John Hoyt),
who finances the construction of a gigantic spaceship, built for the
purpose of transporting selected survivors from the doomed Earth to
another Earthlike planet. As it becomes obvious that Henderson's
predictions will come true, a worldwide lottery is held to select those
people who will be rescued from oblivion by Stanton's spaceship. In the
climactic scenes, the worlds do indeed collide, with appropriately
spectacular results. But will the spaceship, overloaded with humanity,
be able to take off and seek out a Brave New World?
This GORGEOUS print has to be ONE OF THE BEST EVER that
I have owned in my 40 years of film collecting.
OSCAR Nominated for BEST COLOR CINEMATOGRAPHY!
CAST:
Winner of the 1951 Academy Award for Best Special Effects, this science
fiction extravaganza set a new standard for the realistic depiction of
cinematic disasters. This story of Earth's collision with a runaway star is
still a dazzling example of screen sci-fi from the 1950's, when special
effects were entering a new stage of advancement. Despite scientists'
warnings about the star's destructive potential, government officials
refuse to take action that could cause international panic, but a
consortium of private industrialists prepare for the worst by building
a gigantic spaceship--an ark for humanity to begin life anew on a
distant planet. Who will be chosen to go, and who left behind? As
earthquakes roar and massive tidal waves devastate entire cities, the
huge rocket prepares for take-off from its miles-long launching
ramp--ready to abandon the shattered Earth! When Worlds Collide is a cinematic milestone, leading the way for many more screen
disasters that followed this movie's still-worthy example.
Throughout the 1960s George Pal attempted to mount a sequel to When Worlds Collide, which would have been adapted directly from After Worlds Collide
(1934), the sequel that the original book’s author’s Edwin Balmer and
Philip Wylie wrote. However in the 1960s Pal’s importance as a producer
began to wane and the project never got off the ground. In the late
1970s Richard Zanuck and David Brown, the producers of Jaws
(1975), attempted to mount a remake without avail, until the 1990s when
the project finally mutated into the asteroid collision film Deep Impact (1998). Another film adaptation is scheduled for release in 2008 by DreamWorks, directed by Stephen Sommers.
This LIKE-NEW, GORGEOUS, NON-FADING IB TECHNICOLOR
ORIGINAL print is mounted on two 1600 foot reels... ready to project!
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