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Strange Things in the Sky Department: When Worlds Collide (1933+1951)

JF Ptak Science Books   Quick Post  Part of our Strange Things in the Sky Department

When Worlds Collide wasn’t so much about another world colliding with the Earth–it was another star, a “rogue star”, that enters the solar system and heads directly towards the Earth.  Luckily for a selected few, a billionaire astronomer sees the thing coming and decides to construct a spaceship to populate a friendly “planet” near Alpha Centauri.  Oh well, its 1933, and perhaps anything was possible–after all, the Empire State Building (which is depicted in so many of these movie posters in a not-good way) was just finished in 1931, after two years of construction (!). 

So the following are movie posters for the 1951 film version of the 1933 book–except for the first image, which is from the book.

Strange sky--when worlds collide   


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