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The Day the Earth Caught Fire

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

1961 1h 38m ★ 6.8 (177 votes) Released

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.

Crew: Val Guest (Director) · Val Guest (Writer) · Wolf Mankowitz (Writer)

Cast

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

Reginald Beckwith

Harry

Gene Anderson

May

Renée Asherson

Angela

Arthur Christiansen

'Jeff' Jefferson - Editor

Austin Trevor

Sir John Kelly (uncredited)

Ian Ellis

Michael Stenning (uncredited)

Geoffrey Chater

Pat Holroyd (uncredited)

Keywords

newspaperlondon, englandsunheatearthglobal warmingend of the worlddisasterblack and whitedisaster movie

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