Alden 'Stephen' Chase, Barbara Rush, Frank Cady
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. Of course, it's a quaint curiosity b...( read more
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Directed by: Alden 'Stephen' Chase, Barbara Rush, Frank Cady, Hayden Rorke, John Hoyt, Larry Keating, Peter Hanson, Richard Derr, Rudolph Mat?, Sandro Giglio
Release Date: August 1, 1951
DVD Release Date: September 25, 2001
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October 7, 2009This is not your typical low-budget 50's sci-fi thriller. The effects here, with the possible exception of the final scene, are stunning. This is global Armageddon with style! Nostalgic, but still technologically impressive.
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January 3, 200950's was a great time for Sci-Fi. With the moon landings approaching but not quite here, it was the perfect time for imagination and science to collide. Today though and a lot of the effects and ideas look very dated. However, buried beneath the surface of these films are excelle...( read more)
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December 26, 2007If you keep in mind this movie was made in the 50s, the special effects were amazing at the time.
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April 8, 200750s sci-fi that won awards for it's effects back in the day, but is now no more than a quaint museum piece. The forerunner to all the modern global disaster movies like Deep Impact and The Day After Tomorrow (unfortunately...)
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May 24, 2007One of the earliest and most amazing (for the time, of course) usages of special effects to "Destroy the World", such as tsunamis and volcanic floods. The message is hopeful of a better future, but the plot is all about the war between humanities better and worse natures in the r...( read more)
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June 21, 2009Fascinating and imaginative early sci-fi film, good production values. The special effects are good for the most part. Great pacing, good story.
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June 13, 2009Hokey and old fashion, but still good fun...amazing how far sfx have come since then...
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November 28, 2008Before Bruce Willis saved the world from a giant meteor, producer George Pal gave us this 1951 classic that upped the ante from a comet to an entire planet on a collision course with earth. Unlike the modern take on this scenario, in this movie there is no way to stop it from hap...( read more)
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