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Leo McKern (Actor), Janet Munro (Actor), Val Guest (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Leo McKern, Janet Munro, Bernard Braden, Edward Judd, Michael Goodliffe
  • Directors: Val Guest
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Network
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Sept. 2009
  • Run Time: 96 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (89 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B002GDM322
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Val Guest writes and directs this sci-fi drama. After global nuclear testing knocks the world off its axis, temperatures begin to rise rapidly as the planet is sent careering towards the sun. In London the heat is causing the Thames to dry up as baffled Daily Express reporter Peter Stenning (Edward Judd), his colleague Bill Maguire (Leo McKern), and his girlfriend Jeanne Craig (Janet Munro), resolve to get to the bottom of the matter. After battling the Government for the truth, they are shocked to discover the fate of their planet and must search for a solution before it's too late.

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5.0 out of 5 starsClassic film
By Wilma on 10 Mar. 2010
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This is a great film. I saw this at the cinema when it first came out - boy, does that date me! I think that it is a very atmospheric film and, even with all the CGI that they have to work with today, I doubt very much if it could be bettered. I find the re-makes of some films are too frenetic, while this film is very low-key, which makes it all the more frightening. You can feel the temperature rising while the actors are sweating it out on screen, and the fog rolling up the Thames is a great effect. If you only buy one DVD of an old film, make it this one, you won't regret it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsBritish Anti Nuclear Film
By Mr. D. Swan VINE VOICE on 15 Jun. 2005
Format: DVD
I remember seeing this film on Saturday afternoons when I was a kid and rewatching as an adult made me appreciate just what this film has to say. The day the Earth caught fire was made at a time when people lived with the fear that world could at any time be decimated by nuclear war, even when I was a child it seemed quite probable yet people doggidly went on with there lives. There's an element of this in The day the Earth caught fire as people continue to live their lives as the earth rocked by nuclear tests hurtles towards the sun.
Edward Judd plays a reporter for a london newspaper who through bouts of drinking discovers that similtanious nuclear tests by the americans and russians have dislodged the earth from it's orbit and have set it on course to hit the sun, Judds not bad in the role and Janet Munro makes an excellent and sexy female interest but Leo McKern can't help but steal the show. His grizzled portrayal of Judds friend and newpaper journo is electrifying to watch. It's worth the money just to see him but you won't have wasted any cash on this film even if he hadn't been in it. The day the Earth caught fire is an intelligent taught and highly entertaining film, to call it Sci fi would be wrong, It's just an excellent drama with a slightly far fetched plot. Although at the time it really didn't seem that far fetched living under the shadow of the bomb.
The end is particularly un Hollywood as it leaves you hanging, never finding out the fate of the characters.
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5.0 out of 5 starsObscure But Excellent
By Seatinthestalls on 26 Feb. 2011
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Gosh - where to start!

`The Day The Earth Caught Fire' is one of the most intelligent science-fiction/apocalypse movies ever made, and that's that. If you can live with the completely absurd premise that our planet could be knocked over by 2 simultaneous atom-bomb tests, when the multi-million-megaton Chixulub impact of 65 million years ago didn't even make it sneeze, then the rest is easy-peasy.

Set in London, and mostly from the standpoint of the `Daily Express' newspaper office, the disaster unfolds with frightening plausibility. Most movies of this genre usually had (and still have) a political, military or scientific overview with the media presented as little more than a side-issue, a baying mob. here, we see the story breaking from the actual standpoint of the media, a premise to which the Daily Express gave substantial support. It is the other instiutions that are marginalised.

Seldom-seen Edward Judd won his first starring role as a journalist on the skids. His marriage has broken down, he has limited access to his estranging son, he has become disillusioned, bitter, and wobbles on the threshold of alcoholism and dismissal. He now holds women in contempt. But although obnoxious, he is desperately vulnerable. Judd was a big man and handsome in the traditional British way. He had tremendous screen presence, not unlike Richard Burton. His character is kept in some sort of order by the science correspondent, an indulgent uncle-figure here played by excellent Leo McKern, who always brought a solid lump of gravitas to every role. See his conniving `Cromwell' in `A Man For All Seasons', not to mention his enduringly humorous `Rumpole'. Janet Munro is `the girl'. She is marked to bring salvation to Judd's character - if they survive.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsone of the best British thrillers ever
By S. Hapgood VINE VOICE on 16 Nov. 2003
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I know that's a pretty grand claim of mine in the title, but I really believe this is one of the most intelligent, well-acted, and chillingly effective films we've ever made. Made at the height of concern about nuclear warfare (this was the era of the CND Aldermaston marches), it takes the idea that by detonating two massive nuclear bombs at once we have caused the Earth to shift off its axis and ... gulp, we are now heading towards the sun! Much of the unfolding terror is seen through the eyes of journalists in a newspaper office covering daily what could be the oncoming end of the world. These scenes are highly effective indeed, most particularly the briefings in the Editor's office, and Leo McKern is splendid as a jaundiced hack getting his biggest (and most unwelcome!) story. As the days click on and society begins to unravel, with water rationing causing riots and old diseases making a comeback, you even get reminded of later terrifying docu-dramas like "The War Game" and "Threads". On a lighter note look out for a before-he-was-famous Michael Caine appearing briefly in one scene as a policeman doing traffic duty.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA classic sci-fi film not to be missed
By Jeff Davies on 3 Feb. 2011
Format: DVD
As others have said in response to this film, it is superb. I have the PG version (I don't know the difference between the one I have and the one rated 15) and I remember my father asking me if I wanted to watch this film with him when we first got a TV in the early 70's. I was instantly hooked on sci-fi and have been since.

When I watched this film all those years ago I thought it seemed that it could be real, I was entranced and kept asking my father questions about whether bombs could do this, would it really get hot enough for the roller in a typewriter to melt and the feet leave rubber marks on a desk. When I saw this on DVD I had to buy it, it was the first time I have seen it since then and my love of this film had not been jaded by time, my age, or my adult understanding of things. I admit to a sentimental and rose-tinted aspect to my wanting this film but in truth is really is a masterpiece and still holds its own after all these years.

Some 30 years after first watching this film with my dad on an old Redifusion TV, I watched it with him on his 42" plasma, lovely it was as well, like old times. This time I noticed a lot of things that I never did when I watched it through my child's eyes all those years ago. The acting is superb, the story is still gripping and the swear-word (when it is finally revealed what the bombs have done) was also a revelation as I never remember hearing that on TV. My dad also admitted that he and his friends had all gone to the cinema to see this film because they could have a glimpse of Monro's chest in a mirror, just for a second! Perhaps not strangely this is something I missed on the old TV in the 70's as well!Read more ›
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