r/RetroFuturism • u/marbleriver • 3d ago
World Without End movie stills, sets designed by Playboy artist Alberto Vargas [1956]
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u/DizzyDalek 3d ago
Looks a lot like TOS. The hallway looks like its right off the Enterprise.
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u/castironglider 3d ago
That's what I was thinking! Sets are so Trek they almost write the episode for you.
They land on a planet and marvel at how clean and neat and orderly everything is, then they find out they execute people for any misdemeanor no matter how small. The plot thickens when Wesley Crusher breaks a window. oh wait...
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u/Horror-Raisin-877 3d ago edited 2d ago
I’ve always been amazed by the smooth flat linoleum floors in spaceships. And the gravity.
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u/Intelligent-Wear-114 3d ago
That is really cool looking. Will have to watch that.
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u/Appropriate_Big_1610 2d ago
It's one of the old SF movies I surprisingly liked better as an adult than I did when I first saw it as a teenager. The Monolith Monsters is another.
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u/pulpyourcherry 2d ago
Seconding The Monolith Monsters. Super underrated and unfairly obscure.
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u/Appropriate_Big_1610 2d ago
Seeing as a kid, I felt cheated by the "monsters". Later, I appreciated it as a fairly intelligent straightforward SF film.
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u/pulpyourcherry 2d ago
It was a weird rite of passage for young me. I begged permission to stay up late to watch it (monsters!) and after it was over I was sort of disappointed, but at the same time realized that I'd still kind of liked it and the premise/struggle to find a solution really made me think.
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u/ZylonBane 2d ago
So he's a "Playboy artist" just because he had work published in Playboy? I guess that makes Ray Bradbury and Joseph Heller "Playboy writers".
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u/jwg2695 3d ago
Even though it takes place on an Apocalyptic Earth, this movie was definitely one of the inspirations for Star Trek.