
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
A sweaty, black-and-white slow panic that creeps from newsroom banter into cosmic dread, leaving you uneasy and oddly moved.
- Directed by
- Val Guest
- Genres
- Science fiction, Drama
- Starring
- Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd
- Tagline
- The INCREDIBLE becomes Real! The IMPOSSIBLE becomes Fact! The UNBELIEVABLE becomes True!
- 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.
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- Directed by
- Val Guest
- Genres
- Science fiction, Drama
- Starring
- Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd












