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The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Movie
1961
1h 38m
English
Science Fiction, Drama
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) on IMDb
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80

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Janet Munro
Jeannie Craig
Leo McKern
Bill Maguire
Edward Judd
Peter Stenning
Michael Goodliffe
Jacko Jackson the Night Editor
Bernard Braden
Davis the News Editor
Arthur Christiansen
'Jeff' Jefferson - Editor
Austin Trevor
Sir John Kelly (uncredited)
Ian Ellis
Michael Stenning (uncredited)
Geoffrey Chater
Pat Holroyd (uncredited)
Marianne Stone
Miss Evans (uncredited)
John Dearth
Dick (uncredited)
Edward Underdown
Dick Sanderson (uncredited)
Robin Hawdon
Ronnie (uncredited)
George Merritt
Smudge (uncredited)
Verina Greenlaw
Trixie (uncredited)
Jane Aird
Nanny (uncredited)
Timothy Bateson
Printer (uncredited)
Reginald Marsh
Picture Editor (uncredited)
Peter Blythe
Copy Desk (uncredited)
Pamela Green
Nurse at Laundrette (uncredited)
Michael Caine
Checkpoint Policeman (uncredited)
Peter Butterworth
2nd Sub-Editor (uncredited)
Directed By: Val Guest

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siggi963 says...
4 months ago
One of those movies that only work if you can accept a physically impossible premiss required to make the movie work. Well, if you can, the movie is entertaining.
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Buck Flower Sings says...
6 years ago
Quite well done, but everyone was simply over-over-acting. The plight of man into the fiery days of the future, as a result of war. All the aspects of society breaking down are shown quiet well here, with bits of stock photography, archived footage.
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CinemaSerf
a month ago
Newspaper editor "Bill" (Leo McKern) is trying to keep his team focused on churning out the Daily Express whilst the Russians and the Americans are detonating nuclear devices all over the shop. When two of them explode simultaneously and knock the Earth out of it's orbit, things really do start to h More
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griggs79
a month ago
_The Day the Earth Caught Fire_ may be a product of the Cold War era, however, its portrayal of climate chaos and human hubris resonates with today's alarming realities. The film's depiction of the creeping disasters unfolding around us in slow motion feels less like a work of fiction and more like More
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