Rudolph Mate directed this George Pal production about a rogue star named Bellus that is on an unalterable collision course with the Earth, dooming it to annihilation. In the meantime, some wealthy men, among them a wheelchair bound industrialist played by John Hoyt, finance a private expedition to build spaceships to carry a select group of people(who have various essential skills necessary in a new civilization) to a newly discovered planet called Zyra, where humanity can start over. Will this plan work in time, or is the human race doomed to extinction? Given it's highly dramatic premise, film is strangely bland and ineffectual, though does have some good model work on display. Pity the sequel "After Worlds Collide" wasn't filmed though.
Review of When Worlds Collide
