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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Directed by Val Guest
“The INCREDIBLE becomes Real! The IMPOSSIBLE becomes Fact! The UNBELIEVABLE becomes True!”
Science Fiction, Drama · 1h 38m
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.
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
A
Arthur Christiansen
'Jeff' Jefferson - Editor
Austin Trevor
Sir John Kelly (uncredited)
I
Ian Ellis
Michael Stenning (uncredited)
Geoffrey Chater
Pat Holroyd (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Val Guest
- Writer
- Val Guest, Wolf Mankowitz
- Director of Photography
- Harry Waxman
- Original Music Composer
- Stanley Black
- Editor
- Bill Lenny
- Producer
- Val Guest
Details
- Release date
- 1961-11-01
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Pax Films