Back in 1961, British Lion Films released an X-rated (16+) sci-fi disaster movie called The Day the Earth Caught Fire.

The apocalyptic film imagined a nuclear catastrophe tilting the Earth off its axis and sending the planet in the direction of the Sun.

Edward Judd starred as an investigative journalist looking into an Establishment conspiracy, with much of the action taking place at the real-life Daily Express Fleet Street office before we moved in 1989.

Director Val Guest was friends with…