World Without End (1956)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.9/10   

Director:

Edward Bernds

Escritores:

Edward Bernds (story)
Edward Bernds (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

25 marzo 1956 (USA)

Género:

Aventura | Romance | Ciencia-Ficción

Frase comercial:

CinemaScope's First Science-Fiction Thriller Hurls You into the Year 2508!

Plot:

Four astronauts returning from mankind's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Century Earth devastated by atomic war...

Plot Keywords:

Astronaut | 26th Century | Mars | Mutant | Giant Spider

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Ambitious but derivative science fiction.

Reparto

Hugh Marlowe	...	John Borden
Nancy Gates	...	Garnet
Nelson Leigh	...	Dr. Eldon Galbraithe
Rod Taylor	...	Herbert Ellis
Shirley Patterson	...	Elaine (as Shawn Smith)
Lisa Montell	...	Deena
Christopher Dark	...	Henry 'Hank' Jaffe
Booth Colman	...	Mories
Everett Glass	...	Timmek
Stanley Fraser	...	Elda

También conocida como:

Mundo sin fin (Spain) [es]

Duración:

80 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.55 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Recording) | Perspecta Stereo

Clasificación:

USA:Approved (PCA #17704) | USA:Unrated (video release)

Compañía:

Allied Artists Pictures

Trivialidades:

This film was produced directly by Allied Artists (formerly Monogram). It was made in hopes of shedding their "poverty row" image. It was given a larger budget and shot in color and Cinemascope and ran a full reel longer than their usual 60-70 minute fare. Allied Artists was able to book it under percentage contracts rather than flat rates.

Errores:

Errores en Geografía: The model of the Earth seen over the opening credits has a number of geographical errors in the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. Among these: northern Europe is shown completely landlocked, with no Baltic Sea, or distinguishable Scandinavia or British Isles; Greenland is largely gone; the northeast Pacific coastline of Russia is inaccurate; and much of the Japanese archipelago is missing.

Citas:

Timmek, President of the Council: Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid.

Conexiones de Película:

Editado en Queen of Outer Space (1958)

Ambitious but derivative science fiction.

This fairly ambitious science fiction from minor studio Allied Artists used to be one of my favorite science fiction films when I was kid. This is an another one of those films I first saw on TV as kid and still recall with fondness and enjoy re-watching on video every now and then.The story of accidental time travel via space ship appealed to me. Although the idea of time travel was novel to films when it was first released in 1956, the story is obviously derived from the HG Wells novel "The Time Machine." The fact that the time travel is accidental instead of deliberate via a time machine, the mutants live above ground instead of below it and the normal people live underground instead on the surface didn't fool me when I was ten years when I first saw this film on TV.(I had already seen the George Pal version of THE TIME MACHINE and read the "Classics Illustrated" version of the novel.) Neither did it fool the estate of HG Wells, who filed a plagiarism suit against Allied Artists when this film was first released. I have never discovered the result of this suit however. Its somewhat ironic that both this plagiarized version of "The Time Machine" and George Pal's authorized version made a few years later, both star Rod Taylor.

While WORLD WITHOUT END is fairly entertaining film, it can not be considered one the great classic science fiction films from the 1950's. The film moves along a good pace, until director/writer Edward Bernds slows the story down and clutters up the film with scenes of "court intrigue." The names given to some of the characters shows some imagination. I thought the scenes of the rocket crashing in the snow, although obvious, looked attractive. Emile LaVinge's make up for the mutants is imaginative; no two mutants seems to have the same deformity. The Vargas designed costumes on the women are sexy. However, the mens costumes with the skull caps smacks of Flash Gorden in worst way. The giant spiders, to say the least are unconvincing. They are a gaudy blue and red color and look like pillows.

Despite the films faults, one should give credit to minor league studio Allied Artists, whom most of their previous science fiction films (and most those that came later) were low budget black and white quickies designed to fill the bottom half of a double bill, attempt to make something that would compete with the bigger budgeted science fiction movies being made by the big studios. The fact that they allowed for the added expense of shooting this film in Technicolor and Cinema Scope confirms this. Although not entirely successful, one could say that WORLD WITHOUT END was a nice try from a low rent studio.