The Day the Earth Caught Fire Blu-ray Region B

Release Year: 1961

Runtime: 98 min

Director: Val Guest

Cast: Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd, Michael Goodliffe, Bernard Braden

Studios: Pax Films

British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. 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.

Special Features:

Special Features

Restored digitial transfer newly re-graded in High Definition. Hot Off the Press: Revisiting The Day the Earth Caught Fire, (John Kelly, 2014, 33 mins). Audio commentary with Val Guest and Ted Newsom. Audio commentary with Val Guest and Kim Newman. Interview with Leo McKern (1961, unrestored, mute, 20 mins). Make a Film Like You (Powell and Pressburger, 1968, 17 mins). The H-bomb (David Villiers, 1956, 21 mins). Original trailer and TV spots. Illustrated booklet with essays by John Oliver and others.