Meteor- Baked Potato and Earth to Collide
While on the general topic of things striking Earth, or Earth striking things, this one should be brought forth to poke peoples memory's. If only because it was a fore-runner of Deep Impact and Armagedon, and a revisit to When Worlds Collide, but introducing the happy ending?
Where most films from the late 50's and early 60's of appocolyptic earth events (like The day the Earth Caught Fire) were definitely in the Nuclear weapons gone bad camp. This was a 'Nuclear comes good' foray, as opposing US and Russian scientists suddenly realise that their underhanded dealings to blow each other up may be the earths salvation.
After that there is only the competition between the slow motion baked potato in its big part as the asteroid, the biro topped missiles (conveniently daubed in hammer and sickle or stars and stripes to show who has the most reliable whizzbangs) and the cast, to find who wins the cardboard actor of the year award
While on the general topic of things striking Earth, or Earth striking things, this one should be brought forth to poke peoples memory's. If only because it was a fore-runner of Deep Impact and Armagedon, and a revisit to When Worlds Collide, but introducing the happy ending?
Where most films from the late 50's and early 60's of appocolyptic earth events (like The day the Earth Caught Fire) were definitely in the Nuclear weapons gone bad camp. This was a 'Nuclear comes good' foray, as opposing US and Russian scientists suddenly realise that their underhanded dealings to blow each other up may be the earths salvation.
After that there is only the competition between the slow motion baked potato in its big part as the asteroid, the biro topped missiles (conveniently daubed in hammer and sickle or stars and stripes to show who has the most reliable whizzbangs) and the cast, to find who wins the cardboard actor of the year award
