The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) | |
| Director(s) | Val Guest |
| Producer(s) | Val Guest |
| Top Genres | Drama, Romance, Science Fiction |
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) was a Drama - Science Fiction Film directed by Val Guest and produced by Val Guest.
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire
By Barry P. on Sep 2, 2019 From Cinematic Catharsis(1961) Directed by Val Guest; Written by Wolf Mankowitz and Val Guest; Starring: Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Michael Goodliffe, Bernard Braden and Arthur Christiansen; Available on Blu-ray (Region B) and DVD (Region 2) Rating: ****½ “When I had written the original treat... Read full article
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
By Beatrice on Apr 25, 2017 From Flickers in TimeThe Day the Earth Caught Fire Directed by Val Guest Written by Wolf Mankowitz and Val Guest 1961/UK Melina Productions/Pax Films First viewing/Amazon Instant This interesting sci-fi film shows there is more than one way to achieve climate change. The US and USSR acidentally engage in powerful H... Read full article
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Bill Maguire: It's the kid, isn't it?
Peter Stenning: You ought to see the way they're bringing him up, Bill. It'll be the right prep school next. And then the right boarding school. And by the time they finish with him, he'll be a right bowler-hatted, who's-for-tennis, toffee-nosed gent, but he won't be MY son.
Bill Maguire: Oh, I don't know. That bad blood of yours is bound to come out.
Bill Maguire: They've shifted the tilt of the earth. The stupid, crazy, irresponsible bastards! They've finally done it.
Bill Maguire: [Maguire is on the phone to the editor after a pile of letters about nuclear tests is dumped on his desk] What am I supposed to do with these protest letters?
[pause]
Bill Maguire: Thank you very much but there are seventeen hundred of them.
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Editor James Needs used stock footage from Hammer's The Quatermass Xperiment, also directed by Val Guest of a fire truck racing through the night past the patrol station in Bray.
The scenes of the "Met Office" were filmed both outside and inside the Ministry of Defence Main Building in Whitehall. This access was remarkable. Those interiors were little changed until refurbishment of MOD after 2000.
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