Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

ricktricity This has always been one of my favorite, of the old "hokie" low-budget sci-fi films. In a way, I'd put it in a category similar to the that which "The Day the Earth Stood Still" is in. I first saw it, as a young kind, in the Saturday matinees at the local theater. Back in those days, you could just hang around after the film ended, to see it again, at no charge - and with this one - I did just that. Sure, it's got some really "hokie"-looking giant spiders (which couldn't possibly be worse), and even the mutant "cave-men", having only one eye, looked pretty silly. But the plot of the movie was so much more well thought out, than any of the other "B"-movie sci-fi flicks of the era. Although it was nonsense, that a space ship could accidentally go to near-light-speed, while in the solar system, yet still manage to "crash land" (with no injuries to the crew) in the polar regions was beyond far-fetched; but no more far-fetched than Rodan, Mothra, Godzilla, and the many, many low-budget sci-fi flicks of the era. Besides, this one took on a much more plausible story. They'd traveled forward in time, due to their incredible acceleration, but admitted there was no way to go "back again". Their primary focus was to try to help what was left of the human race to come back above ground, where their children could benefit from the sun. I thought it was a very thoughtful film, in its overall plot. I must have seen this movie 50 times, yet I still enjoy watching it every single time I get the chance. After being unavailable, in any format, for so long; it's now on DVD, and has a pretty clean picture and sound. Call me crazy, but I just love this flick!!

jnlife Spoiler alert, there are plot revelations exposed here!! There is much about this movie that has been well described by other reviewers. I will just add my take on the script from an intentional & sociological viewpoint. Getting past the bad spider scenes (Eight-legged Freaks is truly years ahead of WWE's predators) & the interesting space ship, this movie is about mankind. I saw Earth vs the Flying Saucers when I was a kid & comprehended only mechanical ships, not the human logic & relationships also portrayed (though I did understand what I saw in what I value as the greatest of the older, as well as, some more modern Sci-Fi films, Forbidden Planet). As in F.P., World Without End looks at the ethical challenges that help mankind grow. Although there seems to be no religious inferences in this film, versus some of the other 50's & 60s sci-fi pieces, (Them or Day the World Ended, for example) the title has a Biblical ring which may resonant with some.The space team of Marlowe, Leigh, Dark & Taylor grasp the problem of the underground society rather quickly. Due to defensive isolation, humankind has wilted into a society of wimps. Humanity will end with a sniffle or sigh if the robust pioneering spirit & seeking of a better (not necessarily a more materialistic) life of humans is not rekindled. There is some balance between the space team & the futuristic earth group, led by Everett Glass as Timmek. Although the isolated lifestyle & concentrated interaction of the futuristic council leads to errors in judging their ancestors from the past, the 4 astronauts are patient & graceful toward the underground group, & lucky due to Deena's honest intervention, until they finally are given the opportunity to rebuild society. This film has more to offer in reviewing our own present situation of life. Our politically correct culture will be the death of us if we do not boldly pursue our own origins & purpose...until the end.

rrcharpe It is not surprising to see how much mankind's (and woman-kind's) knowledge has advanced over the last 60 years but when you watch this movie you will be struck by the blunders that the writers of this mediocre sci-fi movie made. Several examples include things that were known at the time by almost anyone who had taken a high school biology course: These include spiders on the earth of the future who were the size of dogs, which is impossible given the oxygen rate in the atmosphere and the level of planetary gravity on earth which limits the size of spiders all over the world. Another thing is when the space travelers encounter a spider they worry about it "stinging" them when in fact spiders only bite and none have stings. It is like this throughout the movie which makes you wonder who the technical advisers were and what they were smoking. StocktonRob

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** Top of the line Allied Artists motion picture in both Technicolor and Wide Screen, reserved for the biggest blockbusters of major films studios back in the 1950's, has a quartet of US astronauts end up getting caught in a time warp. This cause their space craft accelerate beyond the speed of light that takes them form the year 1957 to 2508 in a matter of seconds on their maiden flight to Mars as the first men in outer space! Landing on this mysterious and forbidden planet the boys from space John Borden, Hugh Marlow, Dr. Galbarithe,Nelson Leigh, Herbert Ellis, Rod Taylor, & Hank Jaffe, Chris Dark, are at first in the dark to where they are. It's after being attacked by giant spiders as well as mutant and for the most part one eyed cave men that they get the picture, in escaping into an underground cave complex, that the place or planet their on is the good old earth itself!Taken in by the few humans still left on the planet the fly or space boys learn that a nuclear war had broken out in the 22th century and destroyed almost the entire human race. As for the surviving humans lead by the dilapidated and undernourished looking Timmak, Everett Glass, who've over the years had lost their nerve or willingness to fight the mutants and are now satisfied to live out their entire lives underground without as much as even seeing the light of day! It's when the astronauts get a look at the women in the cave who all look like their in their early 20's who just stepped out of a 1950's girlie magazine that they changed their minds about coming back to 20th century earth if that's at all possible. With all the shapely women flocking to the astronauts it's Mories, Booth Colman, one of the wimpy men in the cave , who for some reason all wear shower caps, who plans to discredit the time travelers to his leader Timmak. Mories does this by murdering one of of his fellow futuristic humans James, William Vadder, and then blaming his death on the innocent astronauts.Astronaut John Boden and his men have a tough time proving their innocence but it's young Deena, Lisa Montell, who saw Morise murder James who rats him out to her leader Timmak who was ready to thrown the time traveler out in the wild and at the mercy of the mutant cavemen. This has Morise now exposed as James' murderer run for his life outside the safety of the cave complex only to get caught and brutally beaten to death by the mutant one eye cave-men who were waiting for him outside! By then Borden & Co. finally convinced Timmak and the some 2,000 humans cave dwellers that he's in charge of to finally get their act together, by making and taking up arms, and fight off the mutants before they all end up becoming extinct! In that by them and their offspring's by not getting enough sunlight or vitamin "D" the cave complex populations birth rate has just about dropped to zero!Even though the flight crew were supposed to be future astronauts they wore 10 year old WWII style surplus US Army Air Force bomber and flight jackets not the air tight silvery and robot like astronaut outfits we became used to seeing in the many space flight, by both the US & USSR, over the years since the film was released. There's also Aussie actor Rod Taylor who some four years later would again travel into the future in the movie "The Time Machine" desperately trying to hide his very pronounced Australian accent, and sound American, but being totally unable to do it!