The read
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
178 audience votes
Key crew
- Val GuestDirector
- Val GuestWriter
- Wolf MankowitzWriter
- Stanley BlackOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Janet MunroJeannie Craig
- Leo McKernBill Maguire
- Edward JuddPeter Stenning
- Michael GoodliffeJacko Jackson the Night Editor
- Bernard BradenDavis the News Editor
- Reginald BeckwithHarry
- Gene AndersonMay
- Renée AshersonAngela
- Arthur Christiansen'Jeff' Jefferson - Editor
- Austin TrevorSir John Kelly (uncredited)
- Ian EllisMichael Stenning (uncredited)
- Geoffrey ChaterPat Holroyd (uncredited)
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Themes
newspaperlondon, englandsunheatearthglobal warmingend of the worlddisasterblack and whitedisaster moviedyaliscope