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The Day the Earth Caught Fire

1961 98 min U Science Fiction · Drama

The INCREDIBLE becomes Real! The IMPOSSIBLE becomes Fact! The UNBELIEVABLE becomes True!

Apocalypse Now meets newspaper drama. Reporters uncover a global disaster. Carries 60s paranoia.

Directed by Val Guest · Written by Wolf Mankowitz, Val Guest

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

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