
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Rating: 6.8 · 1961 · Sci-Fi, Drama · United Kingdom · 1 ч 38 мин
Description
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.
Information
- Year
- 1961
- Genre
- Sci-Fi, Drama
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1 ч 38 мин
- TMDB
- 6.8
- IMDb
- 6.8
- Tagline
- The INCREDIBLE becomes Real! The IMPOSSIBLE becomes Fact! The UNBELIEVABLE becomes True!
Director
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)
- Marianne Stone — Miss Evans (uncredited)
- John Dearth — Dick (uncredited)
- Edward Underdown — Dick Sanderson (uncredited)
- Robin Hawdon — Ronnie (uncredited)
- George Merritt — Smudge (uncredited)
- Verina Greenlaw — Trixie (uncredited)
- Jane Aird — Nanny (uncredited)
- Timothy Bateson — Printer (uncredited)
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- The Quiet Earth (1985)
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
- Interstellar (2014)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
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- Real Steel (2011)