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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 04:44:44 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 04:44:44 1985
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 >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