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Val Guest was an English film director and screenwriter. Beginning as a writer of comedy films, he is best known for his work for Hammer, for whom he directed 14 films, and for his science fiction fil
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire is a 1961 British science-fiction disaster film directed by Val Guest and starring Edward Judd, Leo McKern, and Janet Munro. It is one of the classic apocalyptic films of
Val Guest
…Stanley Baker, a tough crime film, Hell Is a City (1960). He followed this with a thriller for Hammer, The Full Treatment (1960). Guest's next film, The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), won Guest and Wolf Mankowitz a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay. Guest made Jigsaw (1962) and 80,000 Suspects (1963). The Beauty Jungle (1964…
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Edward Judd walks through a devastated and deserted London in the film's orange-infused opening sequence.
Title card from The Day the Earth Caught Fire showing the dried-up riverbed of the River Thames