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The Night The World Exploded (1957)
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Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database
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 Dr. Conway has perfected a machine which he believes will predict earthquakes, and has determined that one will strike California within 24 hours. He and his patron, Dr. Morton, attempt to convince the Governor but he cannot bring himself to declare an emergency when there is no proof the machine works - which, within 24 hours, it is proven to do. More significantly, Conway is getting readings which indicate a series of additional, pending quakes around the world, which also begin to occur; and more still seem to be on the way. With his assistant "Hutch", to whose love for him he seems oblivious, Conway takes his equipment to the deepest point of Carlsbad Caverns, in hopes that being closer to the center of the earth will help discern the cause of the earthquake epidemic. It does, when they inadvertently discover a new element which lies dormant in watery pools deep within the earth but, when in contact with air, becomes violently explosive. Forces unknown appear to be pushing this element surface-ward around the globe, and a computer analysis determines that enough will be exposed to explode the entire world within a little more than 28 days...
Movie Tagline:
Super-quake tilts the earth!
Title: Night The World Exploded, The
Release Date: June , 1957
Runtime: 64 mins
Genre: Sci-Fi
All Genres: Sci-Fi
Languages: English
Country: USA
Colors: Black and White
Sound: Mono
IMDB Rating: 5.0
Buried.com Rating: 6 - (Rate This Horror Movie at Buried.com)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With N
Director(s):
Fred F. Sears
Cast:
Kathryn Grant ...Laura 'Hutch' Hutchinson
William Leslie ...Dr. David Conway
Tristram Coffin ...Dr. Ellis Morton (as Tris Coffin)
Raymond Greenleaf ...Gov. Chaney
Charles Evans ...Gen. Bortes
Frank J. Scannell ...Sheriff Quinn (as Frank Scannell)
Marshall Reed ...General's Aide
Fred Coby ...Ranger Brown
Paul Savage ...Ranger Kirk
Terry Frost ...Chief Rescue Worker
John Close ...Soldier
Sam Harris ...Governor's Board Member
Robert Kino ...Scientist
Dennis Moore ...Radio Communications Man
Natividad Vacio ...Hospital Physician
Otto Waldis ...Professor Hagstrom
John Zaremba ...Daniel J. Winters (Asst. Secretary of Defense)
Remaining Cast:
Producer(s):
Sam Katzman
Writer(s):
Jack Natteford
Luci Ward
More Movie Taglines:
- Super-quake tilts the earth!
Movie Quote(s):
- Dr. David Conway: We better do more than hope, gentlemen. We better pray!
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Movie Trivia:
- In 1957, Columbia Pictures theatrically distributed this film on a double bill with The Giant Claw (1957).
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Keywords:
Earthquake, Carlsbad Caverns, Computer Analysis, Geology, Organic Monster ...[more]
Keywords All:
Electric Power Plant, Invention, Bureaucratic Inaction, Acrophobia, Man Oblivious To Woman Who Loves Him, Disaster Film, Volcano, End Of The World, Beautiful Woman, New Mineral, Skeptical Government, Volcanic Eruption, B Movie
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Rating: 6.0 out of 10.0 - 51 votes cast total
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