Released in 1961, the cult British sci-fi film The Day the Earth Caught Fire offers a stark warning that resonates with a heating planet today, writes Gregory Wakeman. Skip to content.

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The world is getting hotter. Unbearably so. Along Fleet Street, the centre of British newspaper production, on-the-skids, drink-sodden Daily Express reporter Peter Stenning (a square-jawed Edward Judd ...

The Day the Earth Caught Fire Val Guest's production has a fascinating yarn, some very sound thesping and an authentic Fleet Street (newspaper) background.

The film is clearly a product of the menacing claustrophobia of the Cold War, and the political overtones of the ... "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" is on BBC1, 12.50am, Friday 19th October. End ...

Val Guest's 1962 movie "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" was a chilling examination of global climate gone awry that was way before its time.

The Day the Earth Caught Fire was directed on a small budget by Val Guest, who had made The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) and would be one of several directors to work on the 1967 James Bond spoof ...

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The film is clearly a product of the menacing claustrophobia of the Cold War, and the political overtones of the ... "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" is on BBC1, 12.50am, Friday 19th October. End ...