Day the Earth Caught Fire

     

Day the Earth Caught Fire1961

Director: Val Guest
Stars: Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Michael Goodliffe, Bernard Braden
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Rating: Unrated
Runtime: 98 minutes

Despite its melodramatic title, which carried on a '50s doomsday naming convention, this taut 1961 English science fiction thriller offers an object lesson in the power of story over special effects. When both the Soviets and the West detonate nucle… more »


Editor (Jeff):
I don't care a tinker's damn about this eclipse of the sun as such; the evening papers will cane it, it'll be dead by tomorrow morning. But what I do care about is why there was an eclipse of the sun ten days before it was due. Bill, this is your department.

Bill Maguire:
I don't know why everybody regards me as Nostradamus. Your guess is as good as mine.

Editor (Jeff):
Yes, but I don't want guesses, I want facts. Try someone on top. Sir John Kelly....

Bill Maguire:
Stenning got in to see Kelly.

Peter Stenning:
He had twenty-eight armed guards around him.

Editor (Jeff):
Yes, but what did he say?

Peter Stenning:
He wouldn't even say "Good night" in case it was taken as an official comment on the future of mankind.

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