The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) Trailer | BFI DVD / Blu-ray
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Stunning film that terrified me when I saw it on TV as a youngster. It's stood the test of time - one of the best films ever made.
Hardly. The premise may have been ok (unfettered atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons) but the conclusions were made up science and bogus.
@Vision Thing I'm a freakin' HOOT.
@@QuantumRift The science is ridiculous, of course. Even dozens of nuclear bombs going off simultaneously couldn't knock the earth out of its orbit. Compared to the mass and inertia of the earth, it would be like a gnat landing on a bowling ball.
Just enjoy the riveting newspaper drama and the crackling, witty dialogue.
All at once
That's the plan
Sorted
A very underrated film and one of my favourites.
For the budget they had, they made a bloody good job of this one!
Except that it's incorrect. The end results would be a nuclear winter.
British director Val Guest must have known what he was on to with this marvellous, low budget film of 1961. Featuring cracking dialogue, a terrific cast, effective matte paintings and an up to the minute score, this is a film that almost forecasts the global environmental catastrophe of today.
There is no such thing.
Spot on
@@jessyfalcone1164: I’d like to know only one thing. What limited you as a child so much as to be unable to understand science, art, history, statistics, politics, psychology, etc.?
Watched this last week at the Scala, Prestatyn as part the BFI's Sci-Fi Festival. Absolutely terrific film!
Great movie, lots of witty sharp dialogue against the grim dystopian reality the world is facing. The water rationing part reminded me of Harry Harrison's novel Make Room! Make Room! (film Soylent Green).
Just been reshown on TV today (29 May 2024) brilliant!
An absolutely amazing movie. I've always been haunted by it.
They should do a remake of this...one of my favorite apocalyptic movies...
Look outside the window for a remake 😂
Remember watching this on the telly ages ago, great classic, just watched it again, and still great stuff.
The story of the film reflects the state of our planet!
Gorgeous cinematography.
I didn't think I had seen this one, but that line by Leo McKern, "It means they've done it." That stuck with me.
I love the quick fire dialogue and setting it in a newspaper room a stroke of genius.
That's Tim Turner narrating.....
I saw this when it first came out in the United States (1963 or 1964?), and it's remained one of my favorite science-fiction films.
I watched this on TV a couple of times as a kid/teenager in the late 70s. There used to be sci-fi and horror films on late on the terrestrial channels often back then.
There was one Twilight Zone episode called The Midnight Sun and it has a similar premise to this movie and was released in the same year.
This and Quatermaas and the Pit two of my favourite 60s sci fi movies.
The premise is a shift in Earth's orbit moving it closer to the Sun, the breakdown of civilization and attempts to restore it. Excellent acting, direction and dialog - sometimes insightful and even witty. An excellent film for 1961, it scarily predicts the effects of global warming.
A classic example of excellent British Sci-Fi on a budget.
Right up there with "Enemy From Space" and "X-The Unknown".
Bought it when it came out on dvd. Still have it.
They already know what's going to happen so they put it in a movie... priceless
Excelente película, un clásico de todos los tiempos.
I wonder what an updated version would be like to see? Would it be kept serious or made into a stupid lame Hollywood teenage version. This may be an old movie but its still just as good.
2012 is the closest they came to a remake. But I'd say this movie was better.
I hope nobody does a remake, how can you top this? There are some parallels with The Day After Tomorrow, but IMO that film, which I really like, pale into insignificance against this one.
One of the best sf films ever produced.
One of the greatest sci-fi films.
Scarily too close to reality
I love this movie. I actually have it on VHS
I first saw 'The Day theEarth Caught Fire' at 8:30pm on Friday night TV in 1969 ~ That movie suddenly jumped-up in my memory in Saturday, September 2019 ~ A pre-COVID Warning! It's a great movie ~ I now have it on DVD. Currently here in Australia with NOW being gifted with 99% Dailly RAINING and almostly every Night ~ I say ~ Watch the movie Scene where the Newspaper Editor, with (Leo McKern) Bill Maguire and Reporters have a PowWow Conference at the World Wall Map and Agree that the UK Gov has been feeding them Bull Mature ~ Bill (Leo) proclaims pointing at Australia & New Zealand on the wall hung Map of the World while stating that ~ "We here in the UK are burning up (no rain) while Australia and New Zealand are being contiually flooded out with Torrential Rain!"
For some reason this video happens to come up on the hottest weekend of 2019.
Come on BBC this is right up your street, save the planet stuff.
In the original version, the countdown heard throughout the world via loudspeaker will go like this:
18, 17 - Thames River
16 - Brandenburg Gate
15 - St. Peter’s Square
14 - Red Square
13 - Taj Mahal
12, 11 - New York
If this was meant for the US, it will go the other way around as follows:
18, 17 - New York
16 - Taj Mahal
15 - Red Square
14 - St. Petersburg
13 - Brandenburg Gate
12, 11 - Thames River
Great film.
I'm as old as this movie.
Feels like what's happening now. With high temperatures around the world. People dying in fires. Is this global warming?
People should watch this film to get a sense of what is coming with abrupt global warming. Truly terrifying!
You people are nuts
At 0:53, Leo McKern says "The stupid, crazy, irresponsible bunglers." In the movie he said "bastards."
wow man and women so respectful last time.
Terrific film! Difficult to understand why Edward Judd didn't go on to become a major star of the 60s.
He thought bike too much.
This was terrifying. Although, it was not quite as terrifying as its sequel, "The Day The Earth Sneezed". The final series of pre-shocks ("Ahh....Ahhh....Ahhhh...!") just before the horrifying, deafening finale had me absolutely frozen in my theater seat! I still have nightmares about it, almost 63 years later.
Damn good film!
Fan of Edward Judd and Leo McKern. Such a fan of Janet Munro. Great flick.
Okay my mom wasn’t even born yet and i was in 1990. I love the apocalypse ❤ so i’ll watch this oldie since the comments are so great 🎉 #Excited PS not even 10 minutes in & i’m going to watch the whole thing 😁😂
Some of the best films or broadcasts in this genre take an infeasible or untenable premise and make you want to stay to the end credits anyway. This film does. A Stateside television series that did more than its rightful share of that was The (original) Outer Limits.
Can't wait to see it!
It was a cinema in now Royal Greenwich. Me and another man on a bus were chatting as we passed it. The site where the cinema was. Tom Dooley. Michael Landon was it? Royal Greenwich. End of my road sort of and down a bit. I used to look at the cinema posters outside and finally when television owned saw a few of the films. Sink The Bismarck. This one. Hercules Unchained and in Colour. RIP Mr Judd and Mr McKern.
My barbecue caught on fire once but this is ridiculous.
The best part of this movie is the ending, where the newspaper prints two editions - ("world ends", and "world saved")......and we never find out which one is true! YOU decide!
Art predicting reality.
Great film. A sci fi gothic that borders on being an especially dark, sinister horror film. Val Guest took the right approach to the story by making a moody, disquieting, film instead a tiresome super duper spfx extravaganza. Nice little touches throughout the film such as Edward Judd taking his son a ride on a ghost train at an amusement park ,or the solar eclipse scene (that takes place 24:10 into the film) that is startling, epic, and just plain nightmarish.
Watching the news this am the afternoon temperature in London is 104. Saw this film years ago when I was maybe 8 and hearing what’s happening in London today made me think of this film. Amazing that this film made in 1961 could predict what’s happening 60 years later.
Ja, so wird es kommen.
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I see it now on analog tv
24-9-2023
When journalists had a bit more integrity..lol..A superb film with laser sharp acting, dialogue, and photography...
They jusy gave away the whole premise of the film in the trailer!
A great little sci fi film ; realistic. The american print has an alternative end scene on it.
By no means is this even REMOTELY realistic, lol. It'd take billions of nukes to move the earth closer to the sun
Is this being released in Region 1?
They used a few things from this movie into the 1966 Invasion movie also with Edward Judd
Muy buena película 😃!
FYI the actual Blu-ray looks much better than this trailer. They appear to have erroneously uploaded the DVD trailer.
Channel 9 WOR TV if I remember correctly aired this movie
The acting may seem stupid and corny but this movie was really ahead of its time back in those days while other movies around that time sucked they were boring and had god awful acting and I’d rather sandpaper my balls than watch them this movie was way ahead of it time good movie
That rioting at 2:15 is just like our estate during the current heatwave. This is getting too much like real life.
I cant imagine why this video spontaneously ended up on my news feed today of all days...
Comment to recommend sci fi movies from the same era that has that same serious tone / good drama.
@A M: "On the Beach" (1959) isn't Sci Fi . . . but it's end of world. So is "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil" (also 1959) . Classics of the era that you probably already know: "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1961) and "Forbidden Planet" (1956) and "When Worlds Collide" (1951).
After seeing this movie you might want to sleep naked
janet munro lovely
I'm underwhelmed....and they even made me pay for it
*Due for a remake/reimagining.*
Janet Munro caused Mr Happy to catch fire 🔥
LEO FKKN MCKERN!
NUTATION... you get NUTATION as a result of eating NUTELLA. DUH.
Classic, now I just think, how on earth did people wear a shirt and tie while burning up....🥴
Oh look, British people needing aid, instead of giving it out, very rare indeed!
@ 01:40 Cerne's? editor ....
background at 1.56. IMPACT.
This one's ok, but a bit too much trivial dialogue. That's fine up to a point and depends on the extent of your interest in such trivialties, otherwise it's just so much chatter.
Needs a cold beer
LOL, not sure that I'd call it one of the best films ever made, but it really was quite a good movie, especially in a genre full of world-class stinkers. It also benefits from a good cast, including Leo McKern and (because I think that she was really hot - and not just because the Earth was on fire) Janet Munro.
Talk about global warming
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