Directed By: Val Guest

Starring: Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern

We begin with a perspiring newspaper reporter walking into his office and sitting down at his typewriter to write a story. The ribbon has melted from the extreme heat. He calls up a copyboy and begins dictating the story to him. It's all about the events leading up to the end of the world. The movie now goes to a flashback.

Unknown to either, both Russia and America have simultaneously exploded atomic bombs at the opposite poles of the Earth. This knocks the world eleven degrees off it's axis. The government tries to keep this secret but our snoopy reporter uncovers the facts and releases the story.

To make matters even worse it is later discovered that the Earth is slowly hurtling towards the sun. This causes extreme weather changes around the planet which in turn creates all kinds of natural disasters. We get to see this first hand thanks to the magic of stock footage of fires and floods etc.

It is decided to try and rectify the situation by exploding some more atomic bombs. Our reporter finishes his dictation and then walks off into the blistering hot sunset. Did it work? Who knows, we're left guessing.

Although the film is definitely interesting we both found it seemed to be a bit long. Probably because there is a lot of dialogue that doesn't really have to be there. It's also pretty heavy on the stock footage. We don't really have to see all this disaster stuff from World War Two. Like, give us a break, we get the idea. There's also a lot of that fast talking British humor that only they seem to appreciate. But still, we liked it.