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speff Started conversation Jan 29, 2006
Entry: "the Day the Earth Caught Fire" - A8936850
Author: speff - U234728
This was inspired by watching the film on video tonight. Saw it years ago, loved it, bought the film recently, still loved it.
A8936850 - "the Day the Earth Caught Fire"
Deek Posted Jan 29, 2006
A great film of its time.
It was also noticeable for the appearance of Arthur Christiansen, the then Editor of the Daily Express as himself. (Although I thought he was a bit wooden)
DK 
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jan 29, 2006
One of Michael Caine's earliest films (as a policeman - uncredited) - only three years before Zulu, and four years before he would be starring as Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File.
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Paully Posted Feb 1, 2006
I think that this is a very good first stab at a movie entry - however, personally speaking, I think I'd like the entry a bit more if you could find out a few more facts and figures about the cast and crew, about the filming and production process, and about how it was received at the time it was released. At the moment, there's not a huge amount of info in the entry, and as this is such a marvellous, iconic and influential film, I think it'd be a shame if it didn't get the full treatment!
Excellent stuff so far, though! 
Paully
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the_jon_m - bluesman of the parish Posted Feb 1, 2006
quick note though
we prefer single quotes --->' rather than double quotes " in the entries.
Somewhere under the Contribute button is a page on useage of English for the EG which explains these rules
A8936850 - "the Day the Earth Caught Fire"
speff Posted Feb 2, 2006
Ta muchly for your advice. I will certainly do a bit of homework on the other bits and pieces that you have mentioned.
One quick question - if I do find facts from a particular source (or sources) I assume that they get a namecheck? And how would I do that?
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Paully Posted Feb 2, 2006
Well in terms of sources, I'd definitely start off with IMDB, the internet movie database. You can then link through to IMDB entries about specific actors/writers/producers.
P
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the_jon_m - bluesman of the parish Posted Apr 10, 2006
no posting for 2 months
back to entry ?
A8936850 - "the Day the Earth Caught Fire"
speff Posted Jun 2, 2006
Hey-oop. Still here. Now in possesion of laptop and wifi modem, which should make things a tad easier, although the laptop is currently doing the "I know that there's a modem in this area, but, naaah, don't think I'll bother connecting."
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Peer Review: A8936850 - "the Day the Earth Caught Fire"
- 1: speff (Jan 29, 2006)
- 2: Deek (Jan 29, 2006)
- 3: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Jan 29, 2006)
- 4: Paully (Feb 1, 2006)
- 5: the_jon_m - bluesman of the parish (Feb 1, 2006)
- 6: speff (Feb 2, 2006)
- 7: Paully (Feb 2, 2006)
- 8: Mina (Mar 4, 2006)
- 9: the_jon_m - bluesman of the parish (Apr 10, 2006)
- 10: Skankyrich [?] (Apr 10, 2006)
- 11: speff (Jun 2, 2006)
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