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 »



Bill Maguire:
It's the kid, isn't it?

Peter Stenning:
You ought to see the way they're bringing him up, Bill. It'll be the right prep school next. And then the right boarding school. And by the time they finish with him, he'll be a right bowler-hatted, who's-for-tennis, toffee-nosed gent, but he won't be MY son.

Bill Maguire:
Oh, I don't know. That bad blood of yours is bound to come out.

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