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The Day the Earth Caught Fire

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

Starring: Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd, Michael Goodliffe, Bernard Braden

Writer: Val Guest, Wolf Mankowitz

Release Date:
November 1, 1961
Ratings:
6.8 / 10
Director:
Val Guest
Companies:
Pax Films

Overview

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.