World Without End (1956) on Netflix
Approved19561h 20mAdventureRomanceSci-Fi
Dr. Eldon Galbraithe and three other astronauts are on their way back from Mars. A cosmic anomaly hurls their ship through a time warp, and they crash on a snow-covered mountain.
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Plot summary
Four Americans are heading home from a flight around Mars when their ship is caught in a time warp and races ahead at enormous speed. The crew blacks out and comes to on a snow-covered mountain, where gravestones worn by time and residual radiation readings tell them an atomic war has left them centuries beyond their own day. Deformed surface dwellers attack them, and giant spiders lie in wait. The men take shelter in a cave and find a passage into an underground city.
Cast
- Stanley Fraseras Elda
- William Vedderas James (uncredited)
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- Michael Garthas Military Officer (uncredited)
- Nancy Howardas Mrs. Jaffe (uncredited)
- Hugh Corcoranas Jaffe's Son (uncredited)
- John Closeas Reporter (uncredited)
- Walter Conradas Reporter (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about World Without End (1956)
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- Allied Artists partly greenlit World Without End so it could reuse footage and costumes from its own earlier science fiction picture Flight to Mars (1951). Among the crew were Sam Peckinpah, then working as dialogue director, and Walter Mirisch, an executive at the studio.
- Alberto Vargas, the celebrated pin-up artist, drew set sketches for the picture, and it remained the only screen credit of his entire career.
- Director Edward Bernds, a comedy and crime specialist, crammed for the job by studying Albert Einstein's theory of relativity so that his astronauts would have a plausible route into the future.
- The film's resemblance to H. G. Wells's The Time Machine drew the attention of the Wells estate, which threatened a lawsuit. Rod Taylor, in an early role here, would go on to star in George Pal's 1960 adaptation of that very novel.
