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The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Name: The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Director: Val Guest
Genre: Science Fiction, Drama
Released: 1961
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd, Michael Goodliffe, Bernard Braden

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.

1961 · Directed by Val Guest · 98 min · Science Fiction · Drama · 18 frames

Tagline

The INCREDIBLE becomes Real! The IMPOSSIBLE becomes Fact! The UNBELIEVABLE becomes True!

Crew

Written by: Val Guest, Wolf Mankowitz
Cinematography: Harry Waxman
Edited by: Bill Lenny
Music: Stanley Black
Produced by: Val Guest

Cast

Janet Munro as Jeannie Craig
Leo McKern as Bill Maguire
Edward Judd as Peter Stenning
Michael Goodliffe as Jacko Jackson the Night Editor
Bernard Braden as Davis the News Editor
Reginald Beckwith as Harry
Gene Anderson as May
Renée Asherson as Angela
Arthur Christiansen as 'Jeff' Jefferson - Editor
Austin Trevor as Sir John Kelly (uncredited)

Production

Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Studios: Pax Films
Themes: newspaper, london, england, sun, heat, earth, global warming, end of the world, disaster, black and white, disaster movie

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