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The Day the Earth Caught Fire
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- 1961
- 99 min
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The time is now 10:41,
19 minutes.
- Yes? Yeah.
- Jeannie?
This is Pete. See if you can find
someone to take a story for me.
My typewriter's seized up.
- I'll try.
- You all right?
Yeah, so far.
You better come up here, Jeannie.
No sense of being on your own.
Pete, how long before we know...
- Copy desk? Hold, I'm giving you newsroom.
- Yes?
- Look, Kitty, do me a favour.
- Are you ready?
- Who's there?
- Pete Stenning. I can't write.
Now, will you take it for me?
But for what? Who says
there's gonna be an edition?
Just take it.
Okay Go ahead. Nice and slow.
It is exactly 30 minutes since the
corrective bombs were detonated.
Within the next few hours,
the world will know
whether this is the end
or another beginning.
The rebirth of man
or his final obituary.
For the last time, man pursued
his brother with a sword,
and so the final fire was kindled.
The Earth that was to live forever
was blasted by a great
wind towards oblivion.
It is strange to think
that barely 90 days ago...
Davis. Yeah?
When did it collapse? Anyone in it?
Try and get a local photographer.
I'll send someone.
Mitchell!
- Yes, Dave?
- More flood trouble.
Ascot Racecourse,
new grandstand collapsed.
About the only thing not underwater in
that area seems to be Windsor Castle.
- Martin's down there. Take a photographer.
- Right.
I think Foreign gets the splash tonight, Dave.
Big earthquake piece from Jakarta.
We got enough splashes
with these floods.
"Exeter marooned. Five to six
feet of water, main Devon roads.
"Marines move in with high troop carriers."
I'll even take earthquakes.
Steve, try and get a call
through to Plymouth.
Tell Denison to give us the
latest Lynmouth position.
"Add flash. Beauty queen riot.
Contestants sue each other."
Yeah, we got some great pictures,
but Jeff says we're a family newspaper.
Down here, Mr Davis.
- Anything new on the test?
- Only the last AP report, sir.
New York announces it was detonated
- Must be the biggest bang yet.
- Not that test. The cricket.
Oh. Sorry, sir. Still no play.
Six inches under...
- Were you getting tea?
- I wasn't, Mr Davis...
- Well, you are now.
- Anything else exciting?
Yeah, four transatlantic jets grounded
with reported navigation trouble.
- What causes navigation trouble?
- Sunspots.
- Sunspots?
- Well, ask a silly question...
Right here, Mr Maguire.
More protest letters, sir.
- No. Take 'em to Features.
- Features said take them to you, sir.
I can't stop the bloody bomb.
It went off 10 days ago!
All right. Put 'em down.
Take those back to
the morgue, will you?
- Sir.
- Yeah?
No, this is Bill Maguire here.
Oh, I'm sorry, Sandy. He's out
of the office at the moment.
Well, yes, even reporters
have to go sometime.
Yes, all right. I'll tell him.
Would you mind telling me something?
I was under the impression that
you wanted a piece on thrombosis.
Well, as I can only do
one thing at a time,
what am I expected to do with
Thank you very much
but there's 1,700 of them.
Don't worry about that now. Go down
and see if my car's back, will you?
It's a tan Morris in
the side entrance.
If it is, Mr Stenning's probably in
Harry's Bar. Tell him he's wanted, quick.
- Sir.
- And how's the thrombosis market?
Great.
This'll give the high-paid executive
readers a nice moment of anxiety
Boy!
Mr Sanderson's asking
for you, Mr Stenning.
So they sent Pip the cabin
boy to bail me out.
- I think he was in a hurry, sir.
- Yes, well, you just tell him I'll be coming up
when he sees the bubbles.
I just got to get some clips
from the library, sir.
Fine. Make sure my
obituary's up-to-date.
But why alter my heading? What is he
trying to do, make a job for himself?
Bill, you can't print a
feature on thrombosis
and call it "You too can
be the death of the party."
Aw, we're all getting soft.
That's what we're all getting, soft.
- Hi, Billy boy.
- Good evening.
Well, your car's safely back.
It's a fine vessel and should prove
seaworthy for another hundred years or so.
What I don't understand,
why bother to come back?
You borrow my car for lunch,
why bother to hurry back at 6:30?
- I saw my kid today.
- Oh, yeah?
Yeah. Battersea Pleasure Gardens.
She lets me see him sometime.
It's my legal right, you know.
We spent the afternoon on the ghost train,
the only customers in the rain.
- You know, Sandy's been screaming for you.
- He's a nice little kid.
Bright, too. Remembered
You can throw this lot down, too.
My floor's full.
Well, what's it like
to have fan mail?
Biggest experimental bang
of all time is 10 days old.
Instead of being proud,
the public demands we stop it.
Oh, I don't know.
The best science man in the street
ought to be able pull
off a little job like that.
Make a trick film maybe.
Yeah, you know,
the mushroom goes back into the bomb,
the bomb goes back into the plane,
which flies backwards over the task force
steaming backwards from the Antarctic.
Yeah, you better start climbing
backwards to Sandy's office.
He wouldn't believe
you were in church.
take over the Science desk.
Promotion. Stenning rises again.
Don't think you wouldn't be welcome.
- What have we got?
- A flash.
"Spitsbergen reports the largest
earth tremors ever recorded."
Sorry I wasn't around, Sandy.
Okay, I'm used to it.
- You know anything about sunspots?
- Sunspots?
You hear that static?
My favourite tune. But I don't
think it'll make the top 10.
I'm not joking, Pete.
There's usually a lot of sunspot
static this time of year,
and during the last week
it's been heavier than ever.
trouble with their picture.
And so's the public.
- Do me a 500-worder for the leading page.
- Success!
Wait a minute. Here are a couple
of items about navigation trouble.
- Maybe you can tie them in.
- Yeah, why not?
Hey, great idea.
With all these floods,
what about a Daily Express ark?
Great sales promotion, Sandy.
You know what, Pete? I really think
you're gonna have to try a bit harder.
This paper isn't built
to carry passengers.
All right?
Okay.
Well, Billy boy, they got
me doing your homework.
500 words on sunspots.
Have you seen the figures on
Is another planet
trying to contact us?
"Are you receiving me?
Are you receiving me?
"You are? Well, get knotted."
Must've been a hell of a big bang
to give these seismograph readings.
Tell me all about sunspots, Daddy.
Sunspots are caused when the rays of the
sun beat down on an unprotected torso,
thus causing a sun
rash similar to acne.
I thought it was clean
living that did that.
Ring up the Meteorological Centre.
See if you can speak to Sir John Kelly.
Maybe he'll give you some quotes.
- If not, you can talk to Pat Holroyd.
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