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The Day The Earth Caught Fire

1961, Movie, NR, 99 mins

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Fascinating Armageddon film in which a reporter, McKern, discovers that the Earth has been knocked off its axis by simultaneous nuclear bomb tests conducted on the same day by the Americans and Russians on opposite poles of the planet. Because of the different orbit, the Earth is now moving toward the sun and will eventually burn up. Most of the action takes place in the newspaper offices of the London Daily Express, which lends a documentarylike quality to the proceedings a... read more leave a comment
Year: 1961
Rated NR

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Cast
Janet Munro: Jeannie
Leo McKern: Bill Maguire
Edward Judd: Peter Stenning
Michael Goodliffe: Night Editor
Bernard Braden: News Editor
Reginald Beckwith: Harry

 

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