THE
DAY THE
SKY EXPLODED
1958 - Fulll
Movie Film
Best Science Fiction movie from the 50s
Scientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collison course with
Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed.
The Day the Sky Exploded is a cheesy
Italian disaster 'epic' from producer Samiel Z. Arkoff who would revisit similar material decades later with
Meteor. An aborted space flight finds the rocket engines exploding near the asteroid belt sending a cluster of meteors on a collision course with earth. As the atmosphere is disastrously disrupted by the approaching space rocks, human civilization is thrown into a panic while a team of scientists struggle to save planet earth and sort out their own relationships in whatever time remains to them.
It's a shadow of more polished productions like
When Worlds Collide but
Bava contributes much to the look and feel of the film and his artistry and skill behind the camera elevate this one somewhat into a watchable entertainment.
Paolo Heusch's THE DAY THE SKY EXPLODED (1958) HQ
aka "
La morte viene dallo spazio", a sheaper italian remake of
George Pal's production of "When Worlds Collide" (1951).
The Cinematography is made by none other than
Mario Bava (wrongly spelled "
Fava" here).
The music is by
Carlo Rustichelli.
more info on
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051951/
This movie is part of the collection: Sci-Fi /
Horror
Audio/
Visual: sound, color
Keywords: Science Fiction; disaster movie;
Paul Hubschmid; Paolo Heusch; Mario Bava; Carlo Rustichell;
Samuel Z. Arkoff
This is significant as
Italy's first science-fiction movie – two years after its first horror outing,
Riccardo Freda's I VAMPIRI (
1956); what connects these two films is the multi-faceted involvement behind the cameras of the late great Mario Bava. In fact, the latter was officially the film's cinematographer (curiously credited as
Baja on the
English titles!) but, as was his fashion, he helped out without credit in the special effects department and the direction as well – a fact also mentioned in
Tim Lucas'
Audio Commentary for the subsequently deleted
Dark Sky
DVD of Bava's
KILL,
BABY…KILL! (1966) and whose hearing prompted me to acquire this film sooner rather than later! Interestingly, the film's original Italian title LA MORTE VIENE DALLO SPAZIO translates to
DEATH COMES FROM OUTER
SPACE; this was picked up and slightly altered a few years later by another
Spaghetti sci-fi entry i.e.
Antonio Margheriti's LA MORTE VIENE
DAL PIANETA AYTIN aka THE
SNOW DEVILS (
1967); besides, the film's
English title was probably inspired by another contemporary sci-fi cheapie i.e.
Fred F. Sears' THE
NIGHT THE
WORLD EXPLODED (
1957)! The film under review emerges as a reasonably enjoyable and above-average entry but, probably stemming from a very limited budget, is bogged down by a talky script and much stock footage of rocket launchings and people rushing into underground shelters. The cast is also somewhat undernourished but does include
Paul (
Fritz Lang's
Indian EPIC diptych [1958-59]) Hubschmid, Ivo (Bava's
BLACK Sunday [1960]) Garrani and Giacomo (KILL, BABY…KILL!)
Rossi Stuart essaying stock-types of lock-jawed astronaut, self-sacrificing professor and no-nonsense technician respectively. Equally predictable are the characters
of the proud Russian expert, the astronaut's lonesome wife, the brainy female scientist, her lothario colleague and the crazed skeptic who reaches breaking-point as
Armageddon looms.
Nevertheless, despite – or, perhaps, because of – the lack of any really spectacular sequences (the rain of meteorites ostensibly about to annihilate mankind never pose that much of a threat since they are themselves destroyed just as they are entering the
Earth's orbit!), one finds himself being charmed just the same by all these overly-familiar elements.
Almost needless to say, hot on the heels of this movie came the Riccardo Freda/Mario Bava melange of sci-fi and monster movie – CALTIKI, THE IMMORTAL
MONSTER (
1959) – which was an altogether livelier effort
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