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The Day the Sky Exploded is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Mario Bava released in USA on 27 september 1961 with Paul Hubschmid
The Day the Sky Exploded (1958)
La morte viene dallo spazio
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 27 september 1961
Length 1h22
OriginItalie
Themes Space adventure films, La fin du monde, Sur la Lune, Impact events in fiction, Sur la Lune, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films
Rating45%
The Day the Sky Exploded (Italian: La morte viene dallo spazio) is a 1958 Italian-French science fiction film directed by Paolo Heusch. It is known as the first Italian science fiction film, predating even the science fiction films of Antonio Margheriti.
Synopsis
An atomic rocket is launched on a manned moon mission, but one of the engines malfunctions. The rocket's steering is broken. The pilot disengages the capsule and returns to Earth. The atomic booster, however, continues on, eventually crashing into and exploding in an asteroid belt. The explosion dislodges many asteroids from their orbits. They coalesce into one giant cluster and are heading for earth. As the cluster approaches earth it causes global scale disasters: tidal waves, wind, fire storms and earthquakes. One scientist loses his sanity in the crisis and disables the great computer needed to calculate all the firing data. He is stopped and the data provided. When there seems to be no reasonable hope that humans could eventually avoid the crash, scientists find that the moon will pass in front of the cluster so that the Earth will be shielded from most of it. However, a small part of the cluster is not shielded and goes towards the Earth. At this point, mankind's only hope is to arm every missile on earth with a nuclear warhead and fire them all at the cluster. The nations of the world band together and fire the volley. The cluster is destroyed.Actors
Paul Hubschmid
(John McLaren)
Fiorelle Mari
(Mary McLaren)
Madeleine Fischer
(Katy Dandridge)
Ivo Garrani
(Prof. Herbert Weisse)
Jean-Jacques Delbo
(Sergei Boetnikov)
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