The DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE
- The DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE
Film (1961). British Lion/Pax/Universal. Prod and dir Val Guest, starring Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern. Screenplay Wolf Mankowitz, Guest. 99 mins, cut to 90 mins (US). B/w.
Val Guest, who had made The QUATERMASS XPERIMENT (1956) and other sf/horror films for Hammer in the 1950s, excelled himself with this intelligent DISASTER movie about the Earth falling into the Sun after a reckless series of H-bomb tests have knocked it out of orbit. Only more nuclear explosions, properly placed, can save it. The film is made in a crisp, low-key, pseudo-documentary manner, with much of the action set in the offices of the London Daily Express newspaper (with former editor Arthur Christiansen playing himself). Les Bowie's low-budget special effects are surprisingly good, including shots of the Thames completely evaporating in the heat. The novelization is The Day the Earth Caught Fire * (1961) by Barry Wells.
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