The Day the Earth Caught Fire

1961

Action / Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 86% · 14 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 84% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 7097 7.1K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Val Guest Photo
Val Guest

Top cast

Leo McKern Photo
Leo McKern as Bill Maguire
Michael Caine Photo
Michael Caine as Checkpoint Policeman
Austin Trevor Photo
Austin Trevor as Sir John Kelly
Aileen Lewis Photo
Aileen Lewis as Demonstrator
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757.08 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
Unrated
Subtitles
24.000 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 1
1.44 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
Unrated
Subtitles
24.000 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 16

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

Newspaper editor "Bill" (Leo McKern) is trying to

Newspaper editor "Bill" (Leo McKern) is trying to keep his team focused on churning out the Daily Express whilst the Russians and the Americans are detonating nuclear devices all over the shop. When two of them explode simultaneously and knock the Earth out of it's orbit, things really do start to heat up and his reporter "Stenning" (Edward Judd) and feisty switchboard worker "Jeannie" (Janet Munro) have to try to get to the bottom of things. Just imagine the red tape involved as the government officials put up all sorts of barricades to him finding out anything - possibly because they don't really know a great deal more themselves. What now ensues is a mixture of romance coupled with some increasingly exasperating investigative journalism as we appear to be heading straight into the path of the sun. Might there be a way to arrest this inevitability? More bombs perhaps? We'll have to tune into the Prime Ministerial broadcast at 9pm... Made when the cold war was alive and well, this is quite an interesting story that when you strip it back offers us quite a potent look at the futility of nuclear weapons. The drama here doesn't politicise anything, but it does use the buzzing dynamic of the newsroom to present us with a story of mankind's own stupidity and bloody-mindedness. There's a solid supporting cast and a welcome bit of sarcasm in the dialogue and it's at the better end of the apocalyptic drama genre.
Reviewed by griggs79 6 / 10

_The Day the Earth Caught Fire_ may be

_The Day the Earth Caught Fire_ may be a product of the Cold War era, however, its portrayal of climate chaos and human hubris resonates with today's alarming realities. The film's depiction of the creeping disasters unfolding around us in slow motion feels less like a work of fiction and more like a stark cautionary tale we've chosen to ignore—a searing reminder of the fragility of our planet.
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