The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
"The INCREDIBLE becomes Real! The IMPOSSIBLE becomes Fact! The UNBELIEVABLE becomes True!"
Science Fiction
Drama
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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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Cast
Janet Munro
Jeannie Craig
Leo McKern
Bill Maguire
Edward Judd
Peter Stenning
Michael Goodliffe
Jacko Jackson the Ni...
Bernard Braden
Davis the News Edito...
Reginald Beckwith
Harry
Gene Anderson
May
Renée Asherson
Angela
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Arthur Christiansen
'Jeff' Jefferson - E...
Austin Trevor
Sir John Kelly (uncr...
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Ian Ellis
Michael Stenning (un...
Geoffrey Chater
Pat Holroyd (uncredi...
Marianne Stone
Miss Evans (uncredit...
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John Dearth
Dick (uncredited)
Edward Underdown
Dick Sanderson (uncr...