Country: UK
Year: 1961
Duration: 98'
Unprecedented images: London in the thralls of a drought, lines of people standing at fountains for water, spontaneous combustion in the parks, the Thames dried up. This is the result when two nuclear experiments conducted at the same time by the USA and the USSR shift the Earth’s axis, bringing it closer to the Sun. A catastrophe in the near future, documented step-by-step by two journalists and a London meteorologist in a minor sci-fi classic from Britain, directed by Val Guest. Dry, feverish, sometimes ironic and sometimes desperate, just like real life.
Biography
film director
Val Guest
Cast
& Credits
regia, produttore/director, producer
Val Guest
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Val Guest, Wolf Mankowitz
fotografia/cinematography
Harry Waxman
montaggio/film editing
Bill Lenny
scenografia/set design
Anthony Masters
costumi/costume design
Beatrice Dawson
musica/music
Stanley Black
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Janet Munro (Jeannie Craig), Leo McKern (Bill Maguire), Edward Judd (Peter Stenning), Michael Goodliffe (Jacko), Bernard Braden (Dave), Reginald Beckwith (Harry), Gene Anderson (May), Renée Asherson (Angela)
produzione/production
Pax Films
Val Guest
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Val Guest, Wolf Mankowitz
fotografia/cinematography
Harry Waxman
montaggio/film editing
Bill Lenny
scenografia/set design
Anthony Masters
costumi/costume design
Beatrice Dawson
musica/music
Stanley Black
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Janet Munro (Jeannie Craig), Leo McKern (Bill Maguire), Edward Judd (Peter Stenning), Michael Goodliffe (Jacko), Bernard Braden (Dave), Reginald Beckwith (Harry), Gene Anderson (May), Renée Asherson (Angela)
produzione/production
Pax Films