

British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
Writing
Newsroom banter so sharp it cuts through the heat
Direction
Guest shot London streets like a fever dream
Cinematography
Dyaliscope makes apocalypse gorgeously claustrophobic

Director
Val Guest
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the hottest UK summer on record (1961), audiences literally sweated through the same heat the characters endured.
Guest insisted on no music score—only natural sound and silence—making it one of cinema's most unsettlingly quiet apocalypses.
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