World Without End (film)
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| Directed by | Edward Bernds |
| Produced by | Richard Heermance |
| Screenplay by | Edward Bernds |
| Story by | Edward Bernds |
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| Music by | Leith Stevens |
| Cinematography | Ellsworth Fredricks |
| Edited by | Eda Warren |
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Allied Artists Pictures Corp.
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| Distributed by | Allied Artists Pictures Corporation |
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Release date
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March 25, 1956 |
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Running time
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80 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
World Without End (a.k.a. Flight to the Future) is a 1956 science fiction film in CinemaScope and Technicolor from Allied Artists, produced by Richard Heermance, directed by Edward Bernds, that stars Hugh Marlowe and Nancy Gates.
World Without End features an early screen role for Australian-born Rod Taylor. The film was distributed on a double bill with the Lon Chaney Jr. film Indestructible Man.
In March 1957, Commander Dr. Eldon Galbraithe (Nelson Leigh), engineer Henry Jaffe (Christopher Dark), radioman Herbert Ellis (Rod Taylor) and scientist John Borden (Hugh Marlowe), are returning to Earth from the first spaceflight, a reconnaissance trip around Mars. Suddenly, their spaceship is somehow accelerated to incredible velocities, and they are knocked unconscious. Their ship crash lands on a snow-covered mountain. When they venture out, they discover that they have become victims of time dilation and are now in Earth's future.
They theorize, from seeing time-worn gravestones and after their ship's instruments register heightened residual radiation, that a devastating atomic war had broken out in 2188, and that they are at least 200 years past that date. (They later learn that the year is 2508). Jaffe is particularly hard hit, as he realizes that his wife and children have long since died.
After surviving an ambush by giant, mutant spiders, they are attacked by one of two competing remnants of human society. The "mutates" (as the astronauts label them) are violent, primitive surface dwellers. They have mutated due to generations of exposure to heightened radioactivity. (However, the background radiation has decreased to tolerable levels, and the men later learn that normal humans are often born to the mutates. These, however, are enslaved.)
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