World Without End

World Without End (1956) starring Hugh Marlowe, Nelson Leigh, Rod Taylor, Christopher Dark

Synopsis of World Without End

In World Without End, four astronauts returning from a voyage to Mars are caught in a time warp.  They’re propelled into the far future, a post-Apocalyptic Earth populated by mutants.

Product Description

“CinemaScope’s first science-fiction thriller” sees four intrepid astronauts (Hugh Marlowe, Nelson Leigh, Rod Taylor and Christopher Dark) successfully complete mankind’s first Mars mission, only to run afoul of a warp in space. Tossed centuries into the future, they discover an Earth devastated by nuclear war, where mutant beast-men rule the surface. Underground is a society marked by listless males and lustful ladies (future- wear designed by Vargas!). Trapped in a tomorrow they never made, the four astronauts take on the mutant and the malicious while fighting to bring humanity back to the surface.

Cast of characters

• Hugh Marlowe (Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, The Day the Earth Stood Still) … John Borden. Expedition scientist. Timmek’s daughter Garnet is attracted to him, which leads to conflict. Later, he fights Naga, the leader of the mutates, to save the mutates’ normal human captives.
• Nancy Gates (The Great Gildersleeves) … Garnet. Leader Timmek’s daughter, who falls in love with John.
• Nelson Leigh … Dr. Eldon Galbraithe. Leader of the Mars expedition.
• Rod Taylor (The Time Machine, 36 Hours) … Herbert Ellis. Radio man for the expedition.
• Shirley Patterson (It! The Terror from Beyond Space, The Land Unknown) … Elaine
• Lisa Montell (Ten Thousand Bedrooms) … Deena. Deena, rescued fromf the mutates on the surface as a child, she falls in love with Herbert.
• Christopher Dark … Henry ‘Hank’ Jaffe. Engineer of the expedition. A married man with children, he’s heartbroken at the thought that hey’ve been dead for centuries, and he has no way to return to them.
• Booth Colman … Mories. Member of the underground council. Already hostile to the astronauts, he’s pushed over the edge when Garnet falls in love with one of them. He kills a man, and tries to blame the astronauts for the death. But be sure your sin will find you out …
• Everett Glass (Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956) … Timmek. Leader of the surviving human civilization, that’s dwindling out.
• Stanley Fraser … Elda

Editorial review courtesy of Amazon

In 2508 AD the future doesn’t have a chance. The future is just a hop, skip and quantum-jump away! Returning from Mars orbit, American astronauts accidentally warp forward 522 years and crash-land in the western U.S. There’s no welcome mat out for these unexpected visitors. There’s only peril — the result of a world devastated by nuclear war.

Space. Nuclear nightmare. Creepazoids everywhere you turn! The sci-fi mindscapes of the nifty ’50s are all part of the World Without End. Living on the Earth’s bleak exterior are the mutant, warlike survivors of a world gone mad. Below ground are the remnants of civilized society: fearful of resurfacing but doomed to extinction if they don’t. Caught in between are stars Hugh Marlowe, Rod Taylor, and the other flyboys. They’re from the past, yet they may be the future’s only hope. First, however, they must survive.