The Day The Earth Caught Fire

An apt random movie trailer for the current weather.  I'll be honest here: I actually wanted to post a trailer for Night of The Big Heat, but apparently nobody has ever uploaded one to either YouTube or any other video sharing site.  So this is my second choice.  That said, The Day The Earth Caught Fire is a pretty entertaining movie and also pretty typical of British science fiction movies of the period - clearly heavily influenced by Nigel Kneale's BBC Quatermass serials.  Indeed, this one even shares a director - Val Guest - with the film adaptations of the first two Quatermass stories.   It's also typical in being quite talky and incorporating a fair amount of stock footage (as I recall) of forest fires and the like.  British science fiction films of this period often seemed to involve people sitting in pubs or newsrooms discussing what was going on outside, rather than showing it (for obvious budgetary reasons).   This time it's a newsroom, in Night of The Big Heat is was a pub.  It also feature Edward Judd, a leading man whose appeal has always eluded me.  But to balance that it has the ever watchable Leo 'Rumpole' McKern in support.  If that doesn't make it worth watching, I don't know what does.