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WadeVC	When Worlds Collide (1951)	Lead	[-]
May 2 06 2:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Just wondering how many here have seen this little gem of a movie? For me it is one of those certain films that regardless of how many times I watch it, it always delivers a good time. A planet on a crash-course with Earth; Brilliant scientific minds working together, ...can anyone be saved! Gotta' watch to find out!
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Bill Warren	Re: When Worlds Collide (1951)	#1	[-]
May 2 06 4:47 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I've seen WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE several times. Too bad that Paramount got cheap on George Pal. This novel (or rather pair of novels) was on Paramount's to-do list since the novels were first published in the 1930s as WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE and AFTER WORLDS COLLIDE. The Academy library has a scri pt by Jack Moffitt dating from the mid-40s that's very good, very faithful to the first book but dated. DEEP IMPACT began as a remake, but turned into something else. Now Spielberg is again considering remaking it.
blackbiped	Re: When Worlds Collide (1951)	#2	[-]
May 2 06 5:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Didn't Cecil B. DeMille consider doing it at one time? Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.
Bill Warren	Re: When Worlds Collide (1951)	#3	[-]
May 2 06 5:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Didn't Cecil B. DeMille consider doing it at one time? Yes, or rather Paramount considered assigning him to it. They toyed with the idea of doing TWO movies, one for each book, then playing them on alternate days.
Unregistered(d)	When Worlds Collide(1951)	#4	[-]
May 2 06 6:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A favorite 50's sci-fi film of mine, right up there with "The Day The Earth Stood Still"(1951), "War Of The Worlds"(1953), and Forbidden Planet(1956). Watching this movie is like watching a great spectacle. I always appreciate the villainous sorts in these types of films, and the guy in the wheelchair(who finances the rocket construction), a wealthy industrialist maybe, but as a person a despicable cretin. Always working
evilskippy	Re: When Worlds Collide(1951)	#5	[-]
May 2 06 7:03 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Picked this up at Wal Mart for under $5 recently. It too is on my "to watch" stack. Haven't seen this one in 25 years or so. "You suffer the consequences of speaking your mind if it isn't what people want to hear"-Adewale Ogunleye
ryanbrennan	Re: When Worlds Collide(1951)	#6	[-]
May 2 06 7:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Look for a very young Stuart Whitman among the bunkmates. The flooding of NYC is still spectacular in the way that the parting of the Red Sea in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS is still awe-inspiring. I saw this on a double bill with WAR OF THE WORLDS when they were paired up on a re-release.
HalLane	Re: When Worlds Collide(1951)	#7	[-]
May 2 06 7:52 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>>Look for a very young Stuart Whitman << Kirk Alyn's in there someplace, too. I think he's in the crowd before takeoff.
markbourne	Re: When Worlds Collide(1951)	#8	[-]
May 2 06 9:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Kirk Alyn's in there someplace, too. I think he's in the crowd before takeoff. He's Rioter Bringing Guns. (So, did green glowing fragments of Earthonite land on Zyra and mess up all the survivors' new superpowers?)
Renfield	Re: When Worlds Collide(1951)	#9	[-]
May 3 06 8:15 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This was shown on the Encore Action Channel a couple of times last year. I taped it off satellite. Pretty intense sci-fi for the times. Joe "Renfield" Meadows HORROR-WOOD Webzine http://www.horror-wood.com
BijouBob8mm	Re: When Worlds Collide(1951)	#10	[-]
May 3 06 8:43 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Didn't Cecil B. DeMille consider doing it at one time? Bill Warren would know for sure, but I believe DeMille also served as (uncredited) coproducer on Pal's WAR OF THE WORLDS and WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE. WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE has been reissued to DVD with a different cover (the first DVD used the same cover as the VHS box), and can be found for $5.50 in Walmart bargain bins. Unlike the reissue of WAR OF THE WORLDS, there is no new content for WWC
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Bill Warren	Re: When Worlds Collide (1951)	#11	[-]
May 3 06 12:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Bill Warren would know for sure, but I believe DeMille also served as (uncredited) coproducer on Pal's WAR OF THE WORLDS and WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE. No, or at least I don't think so. I believe that DeMille championed Pal for WAR OF THE WORLDS, but I don't think his participation went any further. He turned down Pal's request to act as the film's narrator.
BijouBob8mm	Re: When Worlds Collide (1951)	#12	[-]
May 3 06 1:55 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	(lol) I was just about to come back here and update/edit my post, but you've already posted a reply. I dropped by IMDB a bit ago and it does list DeMille as uncredited executive producer on both films if you do a full cast & credit listing...and DeMille's own listing includes these, as well. (Although, as we all know, IMDB does miss the mark from time to time, so take it for what it's worth.)
Bill Warren	Re: When Worlds Collide (1951)	#13	[-]
May 3 06 5:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* DeMille's own listing includes these, as well. Well, yeah; that's just how the sorting program works. But I simply do not believe that DeMille had ANYTHING like an active hand in either movie.
ryanbrennan	Re: When Worlds Collide (1951)	#14	[-]
May 5 06 11:55 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The index of DeMille's autobiography doesn't list Pal's versions or his own earlier proposed productions. He does mention H.G. Wells but it's in reference to a dinner party where the two met.
jimi d2	Re: When Worlds Collide (1951)	#15	[-]
May 7 06 7:53 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I want to chime in and say this is one of my faves too! I must have seen this three or four times as a Saturday afternoon double bill with War of the Worlds at the old Rialto, and I loved going in to see these two together... That was long before the introduction of personal video recorders, of course... I've since owned it on VHS and DVD and it's been in steady rotation at my house for most of my adult life. It's a real comfort flick for me - like King Kong or Creature from the Black Lagoon or Forbidden Planet, I must have most every scene committed to memory by now, but I still get a great deal of pleasure out of watching the film unfold...
HalLane	Re: When Worlds Collide (1951)	#16	[-]
May 7 06 7:59 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* I must have most every scene committed to memory by now Is it this film and WAR OF THE WORLDS where the same people in each listen to the same radios and hear about two very different world altering disasters?
Bill Warren	Re: When Worlds Collide (1951)	#17	[-]
May 7 06 8:00 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There was a line in the novel that I found especially evocative and memorable. Unfortunately, it's not in the film as it exists, but was in the 1940s scr ipt by Jack Moffitt: Imagine a world without lions. Of course, now technology would probably allow us to take along several hundred fertilized eggs of every critter on the planet and seeds from every plant.
Bud Brewster	When Worlds Collide (1951 . . . and 2007?)	#18	[-]
May 9 06 8:52 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I spent about an hour on line reading links I found through a Google search for 'When Worlds Collide", trying to find out if Stephen Sommers is still going to remake this great movie. As near as I can tell, he still is. Does anybody know different?
BijouBob8mm	Re: When Worlds Collide (1951 . . . and 2007?)	#19	[-]
May 10 06 9:32 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Didn't know Sommers was attached to the project. Wasn't Spielberg linked to it at some point, or in some way. (Producer, maybe?) For a while, Sommers was linked to the FLASH GORDON remake, then a pirate film...who knows, by the time it goes before the cameras, who will actually be at the helm.
Professor Von X	Re: When Worlds Collide (1951 . . . and 2007?)	#20	[-]
May 10 06 10:10 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I've always felt there was a chance that Matt Groening got his idea for Mr. Burns and Smithers from John Hoyt's character and his flunky. There was a Simpsons take on WWC, afterall... Professor Von X
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