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<li>I <strong>loved</strong> <a href="eggplant.place/movie/4ClR1a1QM"><em>The Day The Earth Caught Fire</em> (1961)</a>(henceforth <em>TDTECF</em>): end of the world scifi, &quot;journalism procedural&quot; (if that's a thing) with a dollop of the <a href="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_">kitchen sink drama</a> realism of late 50s/early 60s UK cinema. 5 stars!</li>
<li>I recognized the voice of an extremely minor character... &quot;Hey! That copper's <a href="eggplant.place/person/3tX3xNew">Michael bloody Caine</a>!&quot; (ALT TEXT for picture: scene from TDTECF, a car stopped at a checkpoint at night. Police officer (played by Michael Caine) standing next to the driver's window, pointing ahead.)</li>
<li>Looking for more info on the film, I came across a review of <em>TDTECF</em>, which mentions so many other UK scifi films of the 1950s &amp; 60s that I'm going to end up adding to my wishlist, and a few I might even nominate for the <a href="eggplant.place/collection/6ICD"> watch party</a>. (A few, like <a href="eggplant.place/movie/6SQu3Pd7z">Gorgo (1961)</a>, have already been shown in .)</li>
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<h3><a href="eofftvreview.wordpress.com/202"><strong>The EOFFTV Review - The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)</strong></a></h3>
<p>Other UK (mainly) scifi/horror films mentioned in that review (linked to their pages on Eggplant/NeoDB):</p>
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<li><a href="eggplant.place/movie/7XCpMgiyn">&quot;the delirious <em>Konga</em> (1960)&quot;</a></li>
<li><a href="eggplant.place/movie/6SQu3Pd7z">&quot;the fun <em>Gorgo</em> (1961)&quot;</a></li>
<li>&quot;the eminently forgettable <a href="eggplant.place/movie/7QrTkruDP"><em>What a Whopper!</em> (1961)</a> and <a href="eggplant.place/movie/6UcAFL4Uh"><em>Paradisio</em> (1962)</a>&quot;</li>
<li><a href="eggplant.place/movie/41AmaTKiV">&quot;Wolf Rilla’s <em>Village of the Damned</em> (1960)&quot;</a></li>
<li><a href="eggplant.place/movie/46880PzVQ">&quot;Joseph Losey’s excellent <em>The Damned</em> (1961)&quot;</a></li>
<li><a href="eggplant.place/movie/3H8Laqruc">&quot;Anton M. Leader’s <em>Children of the Damned</em> (1963)&quot;</a></li>
<li><a href="eggplant.place/movie/2YU27bttV">&quot;<em>It Happened Here</em> (1965)</a> (a remarkable pseudo-documentary documenting a Nazi invasion of the UK during World War II)&quot;</li>
<li><a href="eggplant.place/movie/4CHz6UMF3"><em>Lord of the Flies</em> (1963)</a></li>
<li>&quot;the early James Bond films&quot;</li>
<li>&quot;comedies like <a href="www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6880114"><em>Mr. Drake’s Duck</em> (1950)</a>&quot; {like TDTECF, directed by Val Guest}</li>
<li>&quot;trashy but fun B-movies like <a href="eggplant.place/movie/440uH4ydZ"><em>The Gamma People</em> (1956)</a>, <a href="eggplant.place/movie/2iTcu61zK"><em>Fiend Without a Face</em> (1957)</a> and <a href="eggplant.place/movie/7kiadtw1e"><em>Behemoth the Sea Monster</em> (1959)</a>&quot;</li>
<li>&quot;serious attempt by British cinema to confront the fears raised by nuclear weapons {...} <a href="eggplant.place/movie/66DfqPmnx"><em>Seven Days to Noon</em> (1950)</a>&quot;</li>
<li><a href="eggplant.place/movie/3gVle52r1"><em>The Quatermass Xperiment</em> (1955)</a> {also by Val Guest, shown in 25 January 2025}</li>
<li>&quot;even more impressive sequel, <a href="eggplant.place/movie/3wqBdIaCO"><em>Quatermass 2</em> (1957)</a>&quot;</li>
<li>&quot;the excellent crime thriller <a href="eggplant.place/movie/0DE2ZOogF"><em>Hell is a City</em> (1960)</a>&quot;</li>
<li>&quot;many of the better British SF films of the decade – <a href="eggplant.place/movie/3Tc2lBIZT"><em>Unearthly Stranger</em> (1963)</a>, <a href="eggplant.place/movie/1LwMbCj8X"><em>The Night Caller</em> (1965)</a>, <a href="eggplant.place/movie/1NinfXB6v"><em>Invasion</em> (1966)</a>, <a href="eggplant.place/movie/2Baa8mCGL"><em>Privilege</em> (1967)</a>.&quot;</li>
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