The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

98 min · Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, disaster film, flashback film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film

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Directors

Val Guest

Cast

Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd, Michael Goodliffe, Bernard Braden, Reginald Beckwith, Michael Caine

The story

thumb|left|upright=1.4|Edward Judd walks through a devastated and deserted London in the film's orange-infused opening sequence. A lone man walks through the deserted streets of an abandoned, sweltering London. The film then goes back several months.

Catalogue themes and tags

Astronomist, Astronomy, Atomic Bomb, Atomic Bomb Test, Earth's Atmosphere, Energiestrahlenwaffe, Erde, Final Days, Heat, Heatwave, Nuclear Scientist, Nuklear Catastrophe, Report, River Thames, Saving The World, Sonnensystem, Sun, Wissenschaft, Wissenschaftlerin, Disaster, Science Fiction, Drama, Doomsday film

Genres

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, disaster film, flashback film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film

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