The Day the Earth Caught Fire

1961

English

7.2

♡ 8

86%

Val Guest Director

Leo McKern as Bill Maguire

Michael Caine as Checkpoint Policeman

Aileen Lewis as Demonstrator

Austin Trevor as Sir John Kelly

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.