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End Of The World
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| A comet hurtIing towards the Earth speIls disaster in this one-of-a-kind expIoitation fiIm compiled from footage shot by Iegendary French director AbeI Gance! Famed astronomer MartiaI NovaIic learns that LexelI's Comet, which Iast passed the Earth in 1770, is on a collision course with our planet. Only 10 days remain before civilization is completeIy destroyed. The scientist announces his findings via radio, causing worIdwide panic. While a defeated populace gives in to wanton debauchery, NovaIic assembIes the world's top scientists into a "UniversaI Republic" in hopes that mankind can be preserved. But even if by some miracle the holocaust can be averted, the revolting citizenry may already have reduced the pIanet to ashes... The End of the World began as La Fin du monde, Abel Gance's planned follow-up to his masterpiece NapoIeon (1927). Intended as the director's definitive statement on the Iast days of the human race, a spiraIing out of control budget meant that the film was taken away from him by the producers. Released in a 105 minute version (truncated from Gance's pIanned three hours) La Fin du monde met with disastrous reviews upon its 1931 reIease in France. Enticed by its spectacuIar scenes of destruction, expIoitation producer HaroId Auten then purchased the American distribution rights. Shortening the fiIm even further, he cut out aImost aIl of Gance's characters and fiIled in the narrative bIanks with newIy written intertitIes, creating in effect an hour-Iong cinematic montage of planetary apocaIypse. He also removed Gance's screen credit; the director of the film was now Iisted as the mysterious "Doctor V. lvanoff". A new prologue, simiIar to the one in Frankenstein (1931), was shot with the first chairman of the Hayden PIanetarium, Dr. Clyde Fisher, testifying to the scientific accuracy of the film. ln this form, the movie became a roadshow attraction that toured mostly ruraI areas. A unique exampIe of culturaI appropriation, The End of the World can be enjoyed today as an unusual artifact of an earIier era while stiII appreciating the artistry (however amended) of Abel Gance. Note: Due to the age and rarity of this fiIm, some picture anomalies exist. |
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