Retro-Musings: “When Worlds Collide” (1951) is a doomsday tale from an extinct era…

*****BELLUS-SIZED SPOILERS!***** In 1933, writers Edward Balmer and Philip Wylie wrote a pair of novels; “When Worlds Collide” and its sequel, “After Worlds Collide.” In the early 1950s, famed producer/director Cecil B. DeMille (“The Ten Commandments” 1923/1956 versions) sought to make them into a pair of movies, with only the former being made and released…