![]() ![]() Meanwhile the real Express editor, playing himself, prepares two possible front pages – Doomed! and Saved! – for the morning. ![]() As the heat rises and civil order collapses, scientists gamble on a counter-explosion to get the Earth back on track. A journalist on London’s Daily Express discovers that simultaneous nuclear testing by the United States and the Soviets has thrown the world off its axis and set it spinning towards the sun. The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Val Guest, 1961) Not to be confused with The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), this is a gripping merger of Cold War thriller and a newsroom drama. There is, admittedly, fun to be had in spotting Melbourne locations in what is essentially a Hollywood film – it stars Gregory Peck as a naval officer on a marooned American submarine and Ava Gardner as the compatriot he meets on shore – but the film’s stance against Cold War militarism is deadly serious. On the Beach (Stanley Kramer, 1959) After nuclear war obliterates life in the north in the hemisphere, the people of Australia wait out the months before slowly drifting clouds of radiation kill them, too.
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