“The day may arrive when money won’t mean anything. Not to you… nor anyone.”
No, I’m not talking about the impending real-life collapse of society, but rather quoting a dour scientist in George Pal’s “When Worlds Collide” (1951), a film which, I must say, offers some remarkably prescient insights into mob mentality and demonstrates that selfish robber barons never change. Indeed, its most remarkable aspect is that everyone works together to prepare for the inevitable as well as they do – until, of course, it all falls apart.
This week on Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner, with so many planets visible in the sky and the tumblers falling into place for Armageddon on earth, it will be easy for us to put ourselves in the grim mindset of this obvious precursor of the big-budget sci-fi disaster flicks of the 1990s, by Roland Emmerich, Michael Bay, and others.
The character-actor cast is populated by recognizable faces from future small-screen hits “Mr. Ed,” “Green Acres,” and “I Dream of Jeannie,” and any number of daytime soaps. The film itself runs a lean 83 minutes, and you just know that son-of-a-bitch industrialist is going to get his.
We’ve jettisoned all the water to make room for Guinness on the space ark. Bring your beverage of choice to the comments section, as Roy and I discuss George Pal’s “When Worlds Collide” on the next “Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner.” It won’t be the G-forces that will have us blacking out, when we livestream on Facebook, YouTube, etc., this Friday evening at 7:00 EST!