The Day the Earth Caught Fire
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| The Day the Earth Caught Fire | |
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| Directed by | Val Guest |
| Produced by | Val Guest Frank Sherwin Green |
| Written by | Wolf Mankowitz Val Guest |
| Starring | Janet Munro Leo McKern Edward Judd |
| Music by | Stanley Black |
| Cinematography | Harry Waxman |
| Distributed by | Universal International Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1961 |
| Running time | 98 min |
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire is a British movie from 1961. The genre is Sci-Fi, Drama and Romance. It is rated PG in UK and is in Black and White and mono. In some of the original prints of the film, the opening and closing sequences of the film are tinted orange-yellow to suggest the heat of the sun.
[edit] Synopsis
The Soviet Union and the USA have detonated several nuclear bombs, leading to the Earth moving out of its orbit and towards the sun. Increasing heat from the sun causes the water on Earth to evaporate, and consequently the governments have to ration water. Scientists find out that there is only one way to bring Earth back into its orbit again, and that is to detonate more nuclear bombs in precisely calculated locations. As the film closes, two versions of the front page of the Daily Express have been prepared for the presses to print: one reads "World Saved", the other "World Doomed", and the staff of the paper anxiously waits to see which headline will be correct. Church bells are also heard to ring out at the very end, perhaps indicating that the world was indeed saved, however the ringing of church bells can also be used as an alarm or calling people to (final?) prayer.
[edit] Trivia
- In his early acting days Michael Caine played many bit parts - in this he played a policeman diverting traffic and had one line to say. Three years later he was to star in the film Zulu.
- The Editor of the Daily Express in the film was played by real-life journalist Arthur Christiansen - one-time editor of the Daily Express.
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