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	The Day the Earth Caught Fire
		It was on that show I first saw ‘The Day the Earth Caught Fire’.
		The difference between British and American movies of the time is the British movies depended less on a monster borne of radiation and more on the human reaction to a world in crisis.
		Caught between his loyalty to his position at the paper and his friendship and admiration of Stenning the character is presented in a far more complex manner than most SciFi flick.
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	The Day the Earth Caught Fire
		The day the Earth Caught Fire is an example of a great movie that doesn't rely on action, bug eyed aliens or computer generated spaceships.
		The premise of the movie is that atmospheric tests of powerful nuclear weapons have changed both the tilt and the orbit of the earth.
		The stock footage of people putting out fires went on too long, but I didn't find the painted shots to be distracting at all.
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	dOc DVD Review: The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961)
		But I do know one thing: if I had seen The Day The Earth Caught Fire around 1970, when I was a ten, it would have scared the bejesus out of me. This is an example of British science fiction at it's finest.
		To reveal too much about the plot of The Day The Earth Caught Fire wouldn't be a real disservice, since the back of the DVD case reveals the entire story in less than one paragraph.
		The Day The Earth Caught Fire is a brilliant example of British science fiction that can do what so few films of the genre can, which is to remain current and relevant over 40 years later.
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	The Day the Earth Caught Fire [1962] - Review (Part 2) @ EOFFTV
		Some critics were suspicious of this apparently conservative streak that permeates The Day the Earth Caught Fire, though as most of these seemed to be working for left-wing newspapers whose right-wing rival, the Daily Express, features so prominently in the film, perhaps we should be suspicious of their suspicions.
		But one of the many beauties of The Day the Earth Caught Fire is that its intellectual complexities give rise to multiple, often conflicting, interpretations and while the left-wing press were dubious about the film's perceived conservatism, the political right were concerned with what they saw as a pro-disarmament message running throughout the film.
		The Day the Earth Caught Fire remains the best example of British big screen science fiction, a beautifully crafted, deeply intelligent film that more than holds its own against the better known and more widely seen Hollywood films of the day.
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	The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
		Although Guest had a proven track record in the genre, having prompted the British SF boom with The Quatermass Experiment (1955), The Day the Earth Caught Fire was rejected by several companies before Michael Balcon and British Lion agreed to back it in 1961, with Guest putting up part of the finance.
		The story is told in flashback through the eyes of Peter Stenning (Edward Judd), a journalist at the Daily Express, who is a stereotypical semi-alcoholic reporter: his marriage has failed, his talents are going to waste, and he cares only for his young son, who lives with Stenning's estranged wife and her new lover.
		As the Earth swelters, emergency measures are declared, water is rationed and people are evacuated from the cities.
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	The Day the Earth Caught Fire DVD review on AudioRevolution.com
		Of the cast, only Leo McKern (and a briefly-glimpsed young Michael Caine, as a policeman) is familiar to Americans, mostly from his later role as Rumpole of the Bailey.
		Edward Judd is still working, or was up until a few years ago; his brief period of stardom stretched from 'Earth Caught Fire' to one or two films past 'The First Men in the Moon' a few years later.
		Universal initially released 'The Day the Earth Caught Fire' in the United States, but let the rights slip away.
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	The Day the Earth Caught Fire [1961] - Review @ EOFFTV
		Ironically, Val Guest had written The Day the Earth Caught Fire eight years previously, before he'd made The Quatermass Experiment [1955] for Hammer, but found its politically charged narrative difficult to pitch to a traditionally conservative industry.
		The fact that 1961, when The Day the Earth Caught Fire was preparing to go into production, also saw the USA and USSR resuming nuclear testing after a two year moratorium leant the film an added urgency.
		In The Day the Earth Caught Fire, Guest uses the technique to bring to life the journalistic milieu in which much of the film is set and to give a terrifying edge to the destruction wreaked on London by climactic changes as a result of nuclear testing pitching the earth off its axis.
	www.eofftv.com /review/d/day_the_earth_caught_fire_review.htm (836 words)

	filmjourney.org : The Day the Earth Caught Fire
		He was a competent craftsman within the British studio system with his share of successes (the Quatermass series) and flops (When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth), but his early experience working in the London office of the Hollywood Reporter clearly must have inspired the authentic newsroom atmosphere in the film.
		The visual style of the film is straightforward and classical, but each scene is rendered with a great degree of realism and sense of place.
		The disaster genre is not generally known for its insights into characters or its clever dialogue, but The Day the Earth Caught Fire is an admirable exception.
	filmjourney.weblogger.com /2004/06/11 (485 words)

	BBC - Films - review - The Day the Earth Caught Fire
		The Earth seems doomed, and the world is hoping against hope for salvation.
		Edward Judd stars as a "Daily Express" hack who discovers the Earth has inadvertently been tilted off its axis by two simultaneous H-bomb tests, conducted separately by the USA and the USSR.
		"The Day the Earth Caught Fire" is on BBC1, 12.50am, Friday 19th October.
	bbc.co.uk /films/2000/10/10/day_the_earth_caught_fire_1961_review.shtml (321 words)

	The Day The Earth Caught Fire
		The Day The Earth Caught Fire is a superior British sci-fi film, co-written and directed by Val Guest, one of the more underrated figures in English cinema history.
		Anchor Bay's special edition DVD of The Day The Earth Caught Fire is one of their finer "vintage" releases, outclassing, by far, their now-problematic first batch of Hammer
		The Day The Earth Caught Fire is presented in its original mono soundtrack, without a fancy remixing job, however, it sure could have used it.
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	DVD REVIEW (R1) THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE Val Guest Sci-Fi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		DVD REVIEW (R1) THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE Val Guest Sci-Fi he Day the Earth Caught Fire is one of the most interesting Sci-Fi Films made in the 1960's, specifically since it attempts to be as realistic as plausible and possible.
		The idea that an atomic explosion could move the earth off its axis is far fetched, but at the time the knowledge was minimal in public, an the really essential question in this film is, how the climatic changes that have been caused affect the reaction of the people.
		A tip: The best way to still enjoy the picture is to reduce the bass on your receiver or amp, and set treble to the max.
	www.dvdscan.com /earthcaught.htm (372 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE (1961)
		Guest on the DVD commentary, he peddled the film for eight years before he was able to sell the idea, and once sold, he had to bring the production in for under £200,000.
		Despite the budget limitations, THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE is the most ambitious and polished of his science fiction films.
		I was pleasantly surprised by THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews2/earthcaughtfire.html (1431 words)

	Day the Earth Caught Fire, The (1961): Janet Munro, Edward Judd, Leo McKern
		Day the Earth Caught Fire, The (1961): Janet Munro, Edward Judd, Leo McKern
		The good weather is, in fact, caused by the earth hurtling towards the sun at an alarming rate.
		The arrogance of the politicians of the day, taking decisions which affected the lives of millions with no thought beyond protecting their own interests, is exposed, as is the question of whether man will bring his fate on himself one day.
	www.citizencaine.org /films/day-the-earth-caught-fire.shtml (606 words)

	Don't Open 'Til It's Doomsday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the movie, see The Day the Earth Caught Fire.
		"Day The Earth Caught Fire" was the first release on Misfits Records and the first Misfits disc to feature bassist Jerry Only on lead vocals.
		The Misfits covered Balzac's "Day The Earth Caught Fire" and Balzac covered a medley of the Misifits' "The Haunting/Don't Open 'Til Doomsday".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Don't_Open_'Til_It's_Doomsday (218 words)

	THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE movie review
		The Earth is a huge body and the amount of energy it would take to alter its axial tilt in a single shove is more than humanity has ever produced in all of its history put together.
		And actually changing Earth's orbit so it was heading for the sun would take many orders of magnitude more energy.
		But if the Earth's axis shifted by 11 degrees as they describe it would be immediately obvious to even amateur astronomers, because constellations from the southern hemisphere would suddenly be visible.
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	The Day the Earth Caught Fire
		One of the best films Hammer Studios never made, The Day the Earth Caught Fire is an imaginative, resourceful science fiction yarn about what might happen if the Earth wound up spinning of its orbit towards the sun.
		It all began when his day to day job at the newspaper office was disturbed by the realization that something might be tying together an increasing number of "small" worldwide catastrophes.
		Apparently the simultaneous detonation of nuclear bombs by the U.S. and the Soviet Union at opposing poles on the planet has disrupted the Earth's orbital pattern, leading it on a fiery path directly to the sun.
	www.mondo-digital.com /dayearth.html (612 words)

	DDMcD's No Frills Review: DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Simultaneous thermonuclear test explosions at the Earth's North and South Poles fling the Earth out of its orbit on a crash course with the sun.
		Despite the anachronistic emphasis on the roles and performance of print journalism, the central theme of the movie is timeless --- the viewer is forced to think about the end of the world.
		Considering the pittance spent on DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE, you really have to wonder if the extra millions of dollars are worth it.
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	The Day The Earth Caught Fire
		I thought this might be an appropriate film for you people to watch at this time of year while you're waiting for the heatwave to happen.
		The result of which as reporters at UK's Daily Express newspaper discovers, tilts the Earth by a further 11 degrees and is also causing the planet to move in closer towards the Sun at said 11 degrees as well.
		At this price and suitable weather, 'The Day The Earth Caught Fire' is a film suitable for the summer months with suitable humidity to have sympathy to the characters.
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	The Day The Earth Caught Fire
		Content: A Transfer: B+ Extras: B+ An intelligent, witty and very adult science fiction film from a time when the breed was few and very far between, the British production "The Day The Earth Caught Fire" has been released in a restored print by Anchor Bay Entertainment.
		The plot is simple: nuclear bomb testing on different sides of the earth by the then-current 'superpowers' have caused our planet's orbit and axis to shift, changing the earth's equator and hurtling us toward the sun.
		The story moves inexorably to an ambiguous ending befitting the entire piece, certainly not the type of ending common those days.
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	The Day the Earth Caught Fire - DVD review
		The reason for this climate change is the result of nuclear tests conducted by the American and Russians which has inadvertently knocked the Earth off its axis and it is down to one paper in the heart of London, England to unearth what is going on and inform the world...
		The Day the Earth Caught Fire is arguably a landmark in British science fiction films.
		But then this review is about The Day the Earth Caught Fire and thankfully both Guest and Judd are at their peak.
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	Amazon.com: The Day the Earth Caught Fire: DVD: Janet Munro,Leo McKern,Edward Judd,Michael Goodliffe,Bernard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		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 Day the Earth Caught Fire" (1961) is one of my most eagerly awaited DVDs ever - a terrific, thoughtful and all-around superb movie (winner of the 1961 BAFTA for best screenplay) which has only been available on mediocre pan and scan VHS in the past.
		The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1962) has impressive credentials, given that it was co-written and directed by Val Guest, the man who brought to the screen such classic films as The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) and The Abominable Snowman (1957).
	www.amazon.com /Day-Earth-Caught-Fire/dp/B000059PPL (2110 words)

	The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
		Peter Stenning, a journalist at The Daily Express, receives a tipoff from his girlfriend, a switchboard operator in government offices, and uncovers the fact that the explosions have caused an 11 degree tilt of the Earth's axis.
		The epic scale of the devastation and disaster is shown with a remarkable economy.
		Perhaps the most interesting part of the film is the ending, which ends on a deliberate note of ambiguity rather than a resolution.
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/earthcaughtfire.htm (701 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The result is a disastrous upheaval in the balance of nature; floods and fires being the principal plagues.
		In the original prints of The Day the Earth Caught Fire, the opening and closing reels were tinted yellow, representing the scorching heat beating down on the frightened populace.
		Global warming, news flouts, and short-sighted environmental policies lend The Day the Earth Caught Fire a disquieting, prophetic relevance.
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	Day the Earth Caught Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		At first nothing seems out of the ordinary, but when an anticipated eclipse of the sun occurs a week early, accompanied by bizarre shifts in the weather, scientists investigate and find that the impact of the nuclear bomb blasts has tilted the earth on its axis.
		The earth’s only hope is another simultaneous detonation, which just might set the earth right again.
		The Day the Earth Caught Fire is a taut, exciting little film that demonstrates how to do more with less: here a low budget results in a gritty and realistic movie about a coming apocolypse.
	www.classicsondvd.com /dayearth.htm (315 words)

	Val Guest's The Day the Earth Caught Fire
		Certainly watching The Day the Earth Caught Fire again after forty-four years takes me into a deep time-slip, a strange overlap of worlds.
		As a scientific premise it now looks very lacking in credibility - although in a period when the Russians were testing the fifty megaton Tsar Bomba it carried a certain plausibility for the non-scientist.
		Chided by Bill Maguire, his irascible mentor and protector, Stenning admits his malaise, caused by his messy divorce and separation from his seven year old son, as well as a more generalised disgust at the futility of the race for atomic supremacy.
	www.culturecourt.com /Br.Paul/film/DayTheEarthCaughtFire.htm (3775 words)

	The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		As a result of US and Russian nuclear testing on either pole, the Earth's axis has tilted, as well as being knocked out of out orbit, hurtling us towards the sun.
		To avoid the utter innihilation of the Earth, all of our planet's governments have decided that four A-bombs should be set off in Siberia, hoping to send Earth back in orbit.
		The Day the Earth Caught Fire is one of the best sci-fi dramas I have ever seen, worth viewing more than once.
	www.hillcity-comics.com /movie_reviews/movie0101.htm (181 words)

	day the earth caught fire - film review for zone-sf.com
		Today, The Day The Earth Caught Fire seems like a masterpiece of wholly understated screen apocalypse, capturing a simply chilling end-of-the-world melancholy which recent US blockbusters like Armageddon are unable to match.
		Set in the offices of the Daily Express newspaper, this ironic tale of mankind's folly unfolds in flashback - as a reporter stumbles through the litter and rubble strewn streets of London, waiting for the outcome of a final desperate attempt to avert catastrophe...
		The Day The Earth Caught Fire gave a big break to TV actor Edward Judd, and the first adult role for Disney player Janet Munro.
	www.zone-sf.com /dayearthfire.html (596 words)

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