The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

Review: The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

Director: Val Guest

Cast: Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd, Michael Goodliffe, Bernard Braden,

Janet Munro
Janet Munro
Leo McKern
Leo McKern
Edward Judd
Edward Judd
Michael Goodliffe
Michael Goodliffe
Bernard Braden
Bernard Braden

Plot: 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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Val Guest and <i>The Day the Earth Caught Fire</i> (1961)

Val Guest and The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

Val Guest instills story and characters with gripping realism in The Day the Earth Caught Fire, one of the greatest of all British science fiction movies, now released in an excellent Blu-ray edition by the […]

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