A Fire in the Sky (1978)
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- Опубліковано 4 гру 2015
- A Fire in the Sky debuted on NBC in 1978. It follows astronomer Jason Voight as he tries to impress on politicians and the public the danger of an impending comet strike on the city of Phoenix.
No cellphones , no over the top dramatic superficial acting . Just a good movie to watch . The 70s were a great time to watch television .
Could have had a better budget for some lighting, though. It's like being at the drive in in the fog wearing sunglasses.
The 70's were a great time period!
@@xaenon could be the age and state of preservation of the print.
@@MariAdkins I suppose that's possible. Or maybe just a crummy VHS dub.
@@thisisme3238 Better weed nowadays, but I live in Colorado lol.
Funny story: I was stationed at Luke AFB, near Phoenix, AZ when this movie was aired. I had just come back from a scuba diving trip in Mexico and everyone was in the dayroom (barracks) watching the TV. It was at the part where news announcers were talking about some of the damage being done. I asked the guys what was going on and they told me a comet hit Phoenix. I believed it till a commercial came on. The guys got a good laugh out of it!
Speaking of 20/20 hindsight, if a comet hit Phoenix I doubt anyone stationed at Luke would need the TV to tell them about it 😜
I'm 66 years old and love checking everyone's input on the movies... And yes I thought it was going to be fire in the sky, but still watching anyway because of all the comments, I'll worry about fire in the sky later. They're both Good!! Thanks to everyone that put in their input ! And yeah crenna is cool!
Still amazes me how old movies can be better than modern ones with all the special effects.
Well they were more realistic
They depended on the good actors. Imagination and just plain Creativity worked wonders.
@Robert Koch! That’s one of my favorites from the ‘70s, too!
#1: ‘Walkabout’.
Also loved ‘Reds’, ‘3 Days of the Condor’, ‘All the President’s Men’, ‘Young Frankenstein’, and ‘Alien’.
@Robert Koch! Yes! I forgot about that. That was great! And ‘Bladerunner’.
And Mel Brooks, ‘History of the World, Pt.1’. Hilarious!
This is great inspiration. I’ve been running out of ideas for new things to watch. Time to revisit some old favorites! 👍
@Robert Koch! I should add that to my watch list. I skipped some of the most popular and critically-acclaimed movies of the ‘70s because they were too violent for me. LOL, the decades since have toughened me up.
After all these years, this is still a really good movie. A lot of times, the "oldies" are the "goodies."
How many people thought they were going to see the story of Travis Walton's UFO abduction?
I did just started reading the comments.
Bummer.
I thought it was gonna be about the UFO which landed on top of Cheyenne Mountain in 1951 and 38 military personnel disappeared never to be seen again.. ⛰⛰🗻🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃👽👽👽👽👽👽🚶🚶😷👾
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@@popatyourecords me too
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I remember this movie, I lived in Phoenix at the time.
After watching it we went outside and Phoenix was still there! I recognized some of the names in the credits, like Bill Heywood, a radio announcer.
I have not been in Phoenix for over 30 years, this brought back some old memories.
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Loved Bill heywood! Lived in Phoenix 20 years
The reason 1960s and 70s TV was so awesome was all the middle aged character actors and actresses. All the shows and movies now employ a bunch of young, good looking actors with no personality.
And many of them...no talent!
Young, good looking,and devoid of character and acting ability.Chris Hanson said it all!!
2024 is a clown show. Pathetic Western society.
Talk about a blast from the past! For anyone who grew up in the '70's, seeing the clothes, the hairstyles, the cars, etc., is like a trip in the wayback machine.
It was for me. I lived in and remember Phoenix from the late 70's. Another movie that shows Phoenix from the late 70's if the Clint Eastwood movie, "The Gauntlet".
Cool seeing the old Sky Harbor airport Terminal 1 along with now vintage airliners like the Continental 727-200, American 707 taking off and the bright yellow Hughes Airwest DC-9 and Fairchild F-27 Turboprops parked on the ramp. Not to mention the USAF KC-135 tankers parked on the ramp near Terminal 1.
Ha-ha! You are so right, PeccatumDei! And I was living in Phoenix when at the time of this movie.
Her name is Lolita
Her name is Lolita?
Not bad for a TV Movie in 1978. Thank you.
My late high school friend, Patrick Johnston, had a small part in this movie (Jenkins, the kid with the radio). He was the most likely of my high school drama class to actually get famous. Sadly, he died in 1992 of leukemia.
Oh I'm so sorry. That's very sad. I appreciate that you told us his story. As a side note I thought that the music they had playing from his radio (nice upgrade from the original transistors) was an unlikely choice of music. Hard rock would've been more in keeping w his age and the times. I'm glad to have had chance to see him as a teenager. Thank you.
My family and I were actually extras in this movie when it was made in 1978.
Meanwhile in 2019 No one cares LOL.
@@joespitler3929 I care
@@burnt520 ok. You want a medal or a cookie?
@@joespitler3929 I mean, if you're offering, sure
Deborah LaPrell that’s so cool
A real treat..thanks for the time machine to when I was 11. Families watched on one tv in the living room. That's how it was. Family time. This was a 2 parter. More movie than commercials then. Those days are long gone.
Our family didn't. We couldn't stand each other. The only shows we watched together were M.A.S.H. and Columbo.
@Jens Nobel Sorry, but the Europeans aren't really strong on Sci Fi. And if I have to sit through another Lars Von Trier epic, I'll keel over and die.
@Jens Nobel Very good points, although I was referring to European Sci Fi, not European science. The only really outstanding European Sci Fi films I can think of are Metropolis (maybe the best sci fi film ever made) and Solaris, although my familiarity with this genre isn't so great.
Actually, I think we should be praised for being a country that has welcomed millions upon millions of immigrants and given them chances to succeed, scientists included. But you're right, we take too much credit for the achievements of scientists and others who were born, educated and trained in foreign countries before coming here. Boasting is one of our least attractive national traits. I certainly wish we didn't take credit for Wernher Von Braun.
A little doggerel by Tom Leherer:
""A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown
"Nazi, Schmazi!" says Wernher von Braun"
@Jens Nobel Well, we Americans have Hollywood to contend with. The people there tend to think bigger is better as, in fact, do most Americans lol. Audiences also seem to enjoy those kinds of films but that attitude tends to produce loud, bloated and generally unimaginative CGI epics. Hollywood is a big business that likes to do what's safe in order to protect the bottom line. If something was a success before, they like to do the same thing again because they figure there's a built-in audience for something based on a previous hit.
Personally (I'm older), I seldom watch films made in recent years. I prefer Film Noir, films from the American new wave (approx 1967-1976) and British films. Obviously, they're more character-driven and focused on a narrative. The last big budget Hollywood film I saw was Dune which I thought was excellent. I just streamed the recent reboot of Blade Runner, also quite good.
This Fire in the Sky movie, while not great, at least had some interesting elements including the strong, heroic Elizabeth Ashley character. Realistic heroic women weren't at the time featured in a lot of American sci fi movies, especially those made for TV. I also thought the subplot about Indigenous people was fascinating. The same plot was repeated in The Right Stuf, a very big budget film, ten years later.
I admire your excellent English.
@Jens Nobel I think On Golden Pond is overly sentimental, but I've probably seen it a dozen times because the acting of every single person in that film is outstanding, right down to Doug McKeon as the kid. Plus it's really funny. Have you seen The Whales of August? It's another film set on the water about people getting older and dealing with the approach of death.
Just watched Flight of the Phoenix, a movie that Hardy Kruger flat out steals from five Academy award winners who also appear in the cast. And one of my favorite performances of all time is John Wayne in Stagecoach, before he turned all macho and jingoistic in his films. Haven't seen WTC but I agree that Oliver Stone is an absolute genius by any measure. I hated The Doors, though, probably as much as I've hated any film LOL.
I've traveled extensively in Europe and studied in London a year but have never been to Denmark or Scandinavia, don't know why. I do know that people from those countries often have fancier accents than I do. Mine is a California one with a cowboy twang, but yours sounds like the Queen's English, very elegant to hear.
it ain't magic...but it's close. Best line in movie.
"Let it burn"
After 45 years since this film was released, I think this movie deserves a remake.
Many great actors in one movie . Life was so simple and beautiful back then .
Elizabeth Ashley was a doll
Oh PUL-EEZE. We had Vietnam, Watergate, stagflation, hostages in Iran, Son of Sam and you could only buy gas every other day. Not to mention the horrible green shag carpeting.
I watched this with my family, the night it aired. All of us kids were terrified, LOL. What a great old flick. Still fantastic. Ty!
Why is being terrified entertainment? Go live in the inner city, you will be satisfied.
Surprisingly excellent movie. Good acting. Good plot line. Appropriate ending.
I see some similarities between the Arizona Governor in the film and the current one in office.
I was Fifteen Years Old When This TV Movie Came Out.
We lived in Phoenix in '78 when this came out, I was 12. Me and my dad watched them filming the big bus shoot up scene in The Gauntlet in '76. Great memories from Phoenix.
Now days they don’t even have to leave the lot everything is computerized. Oh what a wonderful time we live in. When you see what’s not there.
Back then Phoenix was a city that sprouted out of the desert and it seems like everyone wanted to film a movie there. It actually started in the 60s with Psycho.
For a 70's sci-fi, this isn't to bad, I recognize many well know up and coming actor's, worth the watch 40 minutes in and still watching.
Me too🎥
How absolutely fitting for post eclipse viewing. Such a classic and I'm such a Crenna fan. Thank you.
Saw this last when I was in 8th grade...almost 58 now. I think a year later another impact movie came out. "Meteor". Liked that one too.
Watched this movie when i was young with my dad, never forgot about it.
This TV movie should be restored . Thanks for posting .
"I still got a hole in the ground. And I still got you. I'm not sayin' which is more important. But I still got somethin'."
I have been quoting that line for 39 years! I was so happy to find this tonight! Thank you!
My favorite is Crenna's "You can't miss us, there's a big white arrow pointing right down at us!"
Don't you just love Richard Crenna? He was a marvelous actor. So few of my favorites are left now.
I had such a crush on Richard Crenna !🥰
Mr. Brody in The Flamingo Kid 1984
@James Brady First Blood 1982
He was handsome and had such a soothing voice.
He was so good in Helter Skelter and The Hillside Stranglers. And of course the Rambo movies. 🌟
Hard to believe in a politician who cares about scandal. In this day and age, they get elected no matter what they do. Or maybe because of the horrible things they do, tough to say.
One GOOD television movie classic, that should be in HD. Get-with-it UA-cam.
I remember this one! What a nostalgia trip. ❤️
ANOTHER FINE OLD MOVIE. OLDER MOVIES HAVE AN AMAZING WAY OF ENJOYING THE STORY. WHEN THE MOVIE ENDS, YOU DESIRE TO WATCH MORE. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS SPECIAL MOVIE WITH EACH ONE OF US.
"I'd let you use my phone, but it seems to be disconnected!"
Sixteen years later Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter, and we got an excellent view of just how devastating a cometary impact could be.
Do'nt forget the dinosaur killer - present Yucatan Peninsula?
@@candidogalicia5128 Yes, and the theory was formulated by the Alvarezes just two years later.
Iridium? deposits in the rock strata - ( Yucatan ) proved that ca 26? million years ago the aftermath of a comet's? impact into a coastal area of south-
west Mexico - possibly shaped a bay with its impact. Its impact caused such globallyl catclysmic, catastrophic atmospheric - ( a lot of bad adjectives)... Ugh - disturbances that Dinotopia is a fantasy.
It's been many years since the Alvarez's books.
Although the general - lay-scientific response to their findings - upon publishing -
I deem to have not been appreciative enough... Doctor Alvarez and his son have garnered much formal acclaim throughout the years.
If I had been a dinasaur ca. 26 or so million? years ago - I would have much appreciated some kind of warning.
I'd bet that there's a scientist
somewhere who can't spell... is bad at math...forgets proper names for things - words - even people's names.
But - He knows something we don't know.
Doesn't everybody?
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Yes I think more than Phoenix would be destroyed. Read “Lucifer’s Hammer”.
Love ❤️ old movies the black white one are so good and relaxeing to watch
I am in several of the scenes as one of the National guard soldiers out of Glendale was at the airport traffic jam, inside the terminal on top the terminal cut out at the airplane and 2ed solder off the back of the military truck at the end of the movie. They did cut out a few of my close ups.
For those who've never been to Phoenix, there's a long stretch of nothing around it in every direction. I mean hours and hours of inhospitable desert with an ugly little town now and then. Imagine sitting in that in a traffic jam.
I was in first grade when this movie aired got hit by a car the last week of kindergarten so I was in and out of the hospital had brain surgery and back surgery but I remember seeing this movie laying on the couch then I started having seizures that night during this movie that lasted for 4 years and then they went away
Such fun, watching a 70’s TV movie. Thanks so much for posting this.
Nothing like a good old disaster to rekindle everyone's love for each other
Great blast from the past! Much appreciated!
Been watching it since it first came out, am 60 now and still love it. Wish I could see Starman, the original Titanic, Towering Inferno and, Backdraft.
I have the movie starman END Titanic in VHS starman on dvd Sunrise record,s have Them about 12$ IT dépend,s where you live im un Canada Québec
@@mjd7885 If you still have them on the 1st of May I will take them all. Would have to pay by debit card or money order: I live in Jacksonville, Oregon. Let me know
I have seen all of those here on You-tube also.
Just do an online search for ‘where to watch (--insert movie name-)‘ and you can find nearly any movie on some service, or website. I recently found a very obscure movie that I remembered from 1962!
you mean the original 1953 titanic.
Wonder how many if any of those cool cars are around today..???
This was such a great movie. I had never seen it before. This was just real classic disaster fun from the 70’s. What a treat!💖
i have a whole collection of 70s disaster movies. they're the absolute best.
This is very realistic in a " the day after' way
@@MariAdkins can you make a list of your top 20 disaster films?
@@JG-or9ej probably. the disk drive with all my movies on it is currently elsewhere. i hope you can wait another day. :)
in the meantime, what are your top 20 disaster movies?
@@MariAdkins I guess that depend on what type we are talking about. Like suspense/ drama, horror, genre? I like a lot of things outside the box so for instance TROMA label for starters.
I've been trying, like forever, to get this movie from 1978 from NBC ("nuclear bomb committee", LOL), and now it's here for viewing. Thanks much.
I love these old movies! I was 2 when this came out.
Good news no comets were harmed in the making of this movie.
This movie was actually pretty perceptive regarding human nature, how we respond to risk and science - and how our politicians react to threat.
@Jens Nobel Hello Jens Nobel. I'm with you all the way. The mainstream media talking heads don't care about accuracy, fairness, or anything except their own jobs - usually, anyway. In that sense, they're like most politicians. I am so disgusted with the state of our "representation" and our derelict media. As a country, we are irretrievably f'd up.
@Jens Nobel agreed📼
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I liked when the Indian broke out his peace pipe and handed it to Richard Crenna. The look on his face when he smelled the pipe(before he took a toke) is priceless. Didn't know that Michael Biehn had a role in this movie until yesterday(June 9). Never knew this was an "NBC Movie Of The Week" back in '78. Good movie. Cheers!
My Dad actually took me to see this movie when I was about 8 yrs old. I remember the backpackers digging in. Then him telling me that Haileys comet would be visible in my lifetime. I'm sure this movie peeked my intetest in Astronomy.
I love these older movies lots of stars and good acting.
Haven't seen this in decades. Good movie to view especially if you're stuck in the ER. Thanks for posting.
Get well soon! (4 Years ago!)
Thanks for the upload
Even thoe it was Made in 1978/9 it was a Good Movie,thanks to the Uploader,
EXCELLENT MOVIE! THANX!
thanks for posting this movie. i couldn't find it anywhere except for here.
The end of the film during which people are instructed to lie down and not look at the light reminds me of the old duck and cover drills we had years ago when I was in school. When I was in the Navy I attended NBC Warfare School...boy what I learned about nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare was horrifying. We have weapons most Americans know nothing about. Anyway, I doubt anyone in Phoenix would have survived such an event as a comet exploding as it is portrayed in this movie. I think the film was well-made. Richard Crenna was such a fine actor. I met Carol Muske (Dukes) when I was in college years ago. She was actor David Dukes wife. A pleasant and very intelligent woman and poet. Dukes was pretty young really when he died (of a heart attack). There are a lot of fine actors in this film. This was one of many "disaster" films of the 1970s. Sometimes, when I think of the state of the world, I experience some strange comfort watching films such as this one. We all distract ourselves in various ways when coping with so much as we now have to deal with. I wonder if there has been a study of why we like such films?
I remember "Duck and Cover." Someone said duck and cover meant bend over and kiss your behind good-bye.
In the fifties I never thought I'd live to be thirty. Now I'm 80. I still think we could be blown to bits at any moment.
Before moving to Scottsdale in 78 we used to do the duck and cover gor tornado drills in Illinois it wasn't till I turned 18 when I learned duck and cover was instructing us to bend over kiss our butts goodbye lol
I was only 8 when I saw this the first time and it's still as great now as back then
I remember watching this back in the summer of 1979 on the NBC Sunday Night movie(The Big Event) back when I was a teen
OMG. I saw that in 1978.
Great movie! Loved the actors and story. Too bad movies today are crap.
Agreed! :)
This was a good film - so much better than the recent disaster movies that are all Hollywood and not real people.
Good movie for 1978 the year I graduated high school.
I graduated that year too
I didnt see it til a summer rerun in June 1979
I have been looking for this movie for years!! Thank you. I watched it as a teenager
Wow, a young Michael Biehn!
A great old flick. Seen it heaps n still luv it
Amazing how movies from the 70s were way much better than todays crap for 2021 .
A shame this movie was never released on DVD.
Loved this movie.
So good to see this again. Thank you so much for uploading this film. Very much appreciated. A gem!
Thank you. I’ve been looking for this for nearly a lifetime.
"It ain't magic but it's close " 🧉
Thank you for sharing. I completely forgot about this movie and am thoroughly glad to have watched it again.
Someone was pissed off at Arizona. 😂
Great mini series ... brilliant!
Classic TV movie!
Space dangers, cowboys and one of my favorite underated actresses, Jenny O'Hara! My kind of movie!
When this first came out on TV, I was working nights, and had to miss it, but I heard it was pretty spectacular, so I'm going to finally watch it now.
Not too bad, but the "comet" in flight was no way how a real comet would be, with the way it was flashing. I'm sure, though, that the description of what would happen during a comet strike was probably pretty accurate, although what they said about the composition was probably inaccurate, knowing what we know now.
If one were to strike these days, I'm sure that the evacuation problems would be just as hard as that depicted in the movie.
So hard to find, thank you🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
That's what I said to my first date.. 🙌🙌🙌🐸🌃
Love these movies from my past thx so much for uploading!
I have searching for this movie for years and just found it. Last time I saw this was 1979.
Enjoyed very much...thank YOU!
Soapy melodrama in the first 30 minutes aside, this is a very solid film, with seemingly a cast of thousaands! A very impressive finale.
A good movie it reminds me of an event that happened back in 1986, and that was Haley's comet,i saw it travel across the night sky.
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i remember this it was part of ABC movie that was shown on a Monday i was in Jr High when this came out couldn't see it My dad didn't allow me or my sisters to stay up on school nights wow things were so much different back then
Lots good points about the general public and the government will react even by today's standards.
"Where am I going? Far away. No, I don't mind telling people their ship is sinking, but I'll be damned if I'll stay on board to show them I'm right."
LMAO
Yep, spoken like a true Republican.
I thought this so close to "Deep Impact" that the 1998 movie could be considered a remake of this movie's first half.
Also...the comet hit, there was a loud noise, and then everything immediately returned to normal; I think it's more likely that the after-effects would continue for decades. The people of Phoenix who died in the initial blast would eventually turn out to be a very small fraction of the total casualties.
Thanks for the awesome movie 🎥 🍿
Wow, It's been a long time since I've watched this movie, at least 30 years.
I really really enjoyed this film. Thanks.
I lived in Mesa at the time and was scheduled to audition for the part of Merlin's son, Danny. But it was cancelled. Oh, what could have been.
5 years later that young blond dude played as Kyle Reese in Terminator. And Richard Crenna was Rambo's company leader.
Oh wow. I knew Crenna was in Rambo but I did not realize Reese from Terminator was in here. I kept thinking that blond guy looked familiar. Thanks to Nick Rizzo for pointing that out.
@@reesaserik3759 Yeah, I recognized him but it took me almost half the movie to put it together.
Not one girl with a nose ring or fluorescent orange hair. Not one man-bun or neck tattoos. So nice to see!
Oh, grow up, you know what the 70s were like silly
Maybe it you that needs to grow up
Giant collars and rhinestone covered denim jackets. Kind of tame by today's standards
Der Unterschied von damals und heute ist ,wenn du heute aus die Tür gehst befindest du dich mitten auf den Planet der Affen.
Dafür bracht man sich nicht auch nicht die neueste Version von Planet der affen reinziehen.😂😂🤣🤣😅😅🍌🍌🍌🍌
The good ole days
The scene where the crowd is pushing their way through the airport is one of the best scenes of near-panic I've ever seen in any movie.
It was crazy for sure my family and I were part of that scene in cars, running into the airport and getting on to the airplanes.
@@deborahlaprell5926 coolest 😉
Is know. I agree.very realistic
TODAY it's like that for every flight.
FINALLY, a movie who can push iwatch screen resolution to its limit...
This just in: disco ball bursts from studio 54 endangering dozens.
Liza emotionally wrecked.
I love this movie it was all ways my favorite Thanks for the up load
That was fun. Thank you for sharing.
The makers of "The Man Who Saw Tomorrow" lifted the destruction scenes from this movie for their Halley's Comet and nuclear attack on New York scenes.
For all you people that left comments about how you were extras in this movie.... sorry you grew up in Phoenix. Actually this was a pretty good movie, kinda like "When Worlds Collide," only with Phoenix.