Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site mtgzz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtgzz!leeper From: leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Info Request (2 items) Message-ID: <1076@mtgzz.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 04:44:44 EDT Article-I.D.: mtgzz.1076 Posted: Fri Aug 30 04:44:44 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 03:09:08 EDT References: <1024@hou2h.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Middletown NJ Lines: 26 >I saw part of a movie on TV one night that looked >interesting. It was set in Scotland I believe with the main >cast working for a newspaper. It seems something had >happened, and the weather started freaking out: tornadoes, >rising temperatures, natural disasters, etc. There was some >kind of romance story involved also. Does anyone know the >title of this movie? I didn't get to see the end or most of >the movie. Could this be THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE (1962)? It starred Edward Judd, Janet Munro, and Leo McKern (and for those who are fast of eye or quick of ear, Michael Caine plays a policeman). Edward Judd plays a reporter for a London newspaper when all the ruckus starts. It seems that the Americans and Russians each set off an atomic blast at the same instant and the Earth was knocked off its orbit toward the sun. This is why the climate of Britian suddenly starts changing. Munro plays the assistant of a scientist. The scientist knows what is going on but does not want the information released. Munro releases it to Judd and is fired as a result. The film concentrates on witty dialog and for once the main characters are not the prime movers in the disaster but just innocent bystanders. The film was done in black and white. Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper