The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) - Nov 17 2014

[James Luckard]

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-D...lu-ray/108745/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Day-the-.../dp/B00M2WZXG0

This is one of my favorite classic sci-fi films. It was clearly a big inspiration for the Tea Leoni plotline in the 1998 film Deep Impact, which also followed a journalist who learns that the government is keeping the secret that the world is about to end in a cataclysm. It's an extremely grounded drama, mostly dealing with the human impact of impending doom, like a British version of On The Beach.

I know this release has been mentioned in the BFI thread, but it should have its own thread as well. Unless you already know it's there, there'd be no way to know about it. I only learned about the release because I saw it along the top bar here of BDs on sale at Amazon.

I hope they get the rights to the excellent commentary by Val Guest from the American DVD that I have.