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When Worlds Collide

When Worlds Collide

6,4 /10 (203 Votes)
1951 EN 83 min

Overview

When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet.

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Release date

14/09/1951

Votes

203

Popularity

1.2

Planets destroy earth!

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

83 min

Budget

$936,000

Revenue

$1,600,000

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John Chard

John Chard

2019-07-01

⭐ 5

"Suggest we fly to another world" Whilst I wholeheartedly agree with other amateur reviewers on line that stress you have to put yourself back to 1951 to appreciate the film more, it still doesn't take away from the fact that the film is one of the poorer offerings from the disaster/sci-fi genre of years gone by. The methodical build up of characters is fine for adding weight to the final reel, the effects are solid for the time, and the ending has an element of heart tugging hope to it, but the film still remains a drawn out laborious watch. No amount of shouting about lack of budge…

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JPV852

JPV852

2022-09-22

⭐ 6

Entertaining enough apocalyptic disaster film from the 1950s has some absolutely adorable miniatures and one awful matte painting at the end. Still, has its moments and the acting at least was passable. **2.75/5**

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