Director: Rudolph Maté

Rudolph Maté directed D.O.A. and When Worlds Collide and had earlier been the cinematographer on The Passion of Joan of Arc and Vampyr for Dreyer, which is a remarkable pair of careers.

When Worlds Collide (1951) film posterRudolph Maté

When Worlds Collide (1951)

When Worlds Collide is the early-Cold War apocalypse film that established the planetary-impact template for the next seventy-five years. The screenplay by Sydney Boehm adapts the 1933 novel by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie.

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