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Awards. Val Guest and Wolf Mankowitz received the 1962 BAFTA for Best Film Screenplay for The Day the Earth Caught Fire. See also. List of apocalyptic films; List of nuclear holocaust fiction "The Midnight Sun", an episode of The Twilight Zone with a similar premise; References
1 win & 1 nomination. BAFTA Awards. 1962 Winner BAFTA Film Award. Best British Screenplay. Wolf Mankowitz. Val Guest. Hugo Awards. 1963 Nominee Hugo. Best Dramatic Presentation. Val Guest (written by/director) Wolf Mankowitz (written by) Contribute to this page. Suggest an edit or add missing content. Top Gap.
The Day the Earth Caught Fire: Directed by Val Guest. With Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd, Michael Goodliffe. When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.
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.
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire ★★★½ 1961 The earth is knocked out of orbit and sent hurtling toward the sun when nuclear testing is done simultaneously at both the North and South Poles. Realistic and suspenseful, this is one of the best of the scifi genre.
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.
