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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: MCKERN,LEO
EAN: 0013131142990
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 12, 2001
Running Time: 99 minutes
Sales Rank: 52705
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: 1962-05
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
After the US and Soviets explode nuclear devices simultaneously, the Earth gets knocked off its axis.
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: UN
Release Date: 8-JUN-2004
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com essential video:
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 nuclear tests simultaneously, the seismic double whammy jolts the earth off its axis and onto a new orbit sending it fatally closer to the sun--a fate that writer-director-producer Val Guest views from the street-level perspective of its principal characters, rather than an off-world vantage point. The street in question, however, is London's Fleet Street, the venerable hub of its newspaper and tabloid publishers, and the hard-nosed reporters growing realization that their number is up carries its own stark punch. Edward Judd is Peter Stenning, a rugged, appropriately grim reporter, Leo McKern is tough but compassionate editor Bill Maguire, and Janet Munro is Stenning's love interest, in an elfin, sexy turn that's a striking contrast to her best-known turn in Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People. With an effects arsenal that consists largely of a spray bottle to apply beads of "sweat," Guest and his small but crack cast are surprisingly effective, and the cold war plot hook still works, thanks to its uncomfortable proximity to more contemporary environmental terrors. --Sam Sutherland
Average Rating: 
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Excellent movie about an end of the world scenario. Multiple nuclear tests make the earth change its orbit and it is inevitably heading towards the sun. The movie concerns people's reaction to the situation. It's a tense, gripping movie that also features a very sexual performance by Janet Munro. Seeing her at her most beautiful and giving such a strong performance makes one sad that she died so young and led such a tragic life.
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this is true sf. a "what if" followed by the consequences interspersed with people problems. everything in this pic is well done. this is NOT a pic with special effects. it is one with good acting, sets, story, direction. suspend your disbelief and enjoy. i did.
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In brief, atomic bomb testing causes the earth to shift orbit, resulting in a new course that directs it towards the sun. Towards the end of the film, the U.S. government devises and implements a plan to bring the earth back to its rightful orbit. An interesting twist, appearing at the very end of the movie, is that we are shown two version of a newspaper headline, one heralds the earth's doom, and the other announces the earth's return to a safe orbit.
The film begins with scenes of ... Read More
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This well-written 1962 British sci-fi comes to us courtesy of Val Guest, who wrote as well as directed.
"The Day the Earth Caught Fire" follows journalist Pete Stenning (the very handsome and appealing Edward Judd, who, disappointingly, didn't move on to a major career after this film) through a worldwide upheaval caused by two nearly simultaneous atomic bomb test explosions, one set off by America and the other by Soviet Russia. The combined power of the tests not only shifts the tilt ... Read More
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IN A NUTSHELL: A WELL-TOLD STORY WITH AN AGE-OLD THEME
Despite the sensational title, "The Day The Earth Caught Fire" is a very plausible, taut and well told story about what could happen when humans play with fire 1 time too many!
The dialogue and acting in this film are both mesmerizing and chilling in equal measure and to excellent effect. However, the Special Effects are limited to a 3 story high heat mist, and some thrown about miniatures as a result of a sudden tornado ... Read More
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