The Day the Earth Caught Fire The Day the Earth Caught Fire

The INCREDIBLE becomes Real! The IMPOSSIBLE becomes Fact! The UNBELIEVABLE becomes True!

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.

Janet Munro Leo McKern Edward Judd Michael Goodliffe Bernard Braden

science fiction foreign disaster

98 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • Brent Paton

    Review by Brent Paton ★★½

    Fun sci-fi.

  • JoshuaKaitlyn

    Review by JoshuaKaitlyn ★★★½

    The end of the world is nigh! You'll recognise some of the extreme weather patterns in this movie to those of today! Rain, fog, drought and so on. In this movie they are less natural events and more man made. A number of simultaneous atomic, (again!), explosions knock the Earth off its axis and sends it spiralling towards the sun. A jaded journalist begins to piece together the story with the aid of a Met office secretary as the authourities begin to ration the water and the worlds governments come up with a plan to save us all. Like Rocketship XM eleven years earlier, the clever use of a red tint is used in an otherwise B&W movie but this time to give the impression of extreme heat. An intelligent sci-fi movie which dosen't rely on special effects but rather on characterization and some great dialogue scenes.

  • Peter Osmond

    Review by Peter Osmond ★★★★★

    brilliant british Sci-fi with an incredible realistic script and some really good FX for 1962.