The Day the Sky Exploded (Sci-Fi, 1958) Paul Hubschmid, Madeleine Fischer | Movie, Subtitles

Scientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collision course with Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed.
Colorized version • Sci-Fi | The Day the S...
Original title: La morte viene dallo spazio (1958)
AKA: The Day the Sky Exploded / Death Comes from Outer Space
This film is subtitled in over 30 languages. Choose your preferred language in settings ⚙️.
Director: Paolo Heusch, Mario Baja
Writers: Virgilio Sabel, Marcello Coscia, Sandro Continenza
Stars: Paul Hubschmid, Madeleine Fischer, Fiorella Mari
Genre: Classic Sci-Fi
00:00 International headlines
00:28 Title credits - full movie (wiith subtitles)
08:37 Preparing for blast-off -Countdown to the launch of the first manned rocket to the moon amidst secrecy and anticipation.
17:20 Solid gold with rocket fuel cocktail
25:56 John back on land
32:19 Winning the wager
43:52 End of the world - Global evacuation efforts initiated as humanity faces impending meteorite collision.
58:32 American solution: nuke 'em & to use missiles equipped with atomic warheads to disintegrate meteorites threatening Earth.
01:13:14 Hahaha oh Hollywood - Humanity faces imminent destruction from a massive asteroid, but is ultimately saved by a last-minute rocket launch.
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[@PointyTailofSatan]

No actual science was harmed in the making of this movie.

[@leelarson107]

Oh, yes, it WAS! They tortured science to death wit this one.

[@cowboykelly6590]

BAHAHAHA...🤣🖖

[@eyeOOsee]

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@cowboykelly6590]

@@leelarson107 BAHAHAHA...🤣

[@patricktilley5203]

😂😂😂

[@timthompson8297]

They spared no expense in making this classic film.

[@domm1952]

These movies bring back happy childhood memories. Thank you!

[@harrylyme3969]

This is the first SF movie ever produced in Italy. If the voice of McClaren sounds familiar it is because it was provided by Shane Rimmer (the voice of Scott Tracy in The Thunderbirds)

[@ktkt9982]

😮😊

[@gemqueen1866]

Thank you, I knew it sounded familiar and I could not place it!

[@grindupBaker]

I think I'm recognizing Dudley Moore's voice. Superthunderstingcar FarbThing

[@ducttapetech9885]

LOL. "set the air conditioner to ten degrees below zero, and if that doesn't do it, set it to maximum!" Great advice for any situation.

[@cowboykelly6590]

BAHAHAHA...🤣

[@bernardoconnor1502]

This one goes to eleven.

[@user-gv3jq1nn2d]

AC Unit = Universal Atmospheric Compensator and no astronaut leaves Earth without one .

[@MikeGreenwood51]

Ah that's what happened and why the sixties happened the way it did. Some Beat Hair Dresser miss read or intentional rebranded some 'Hair Conditioner' calling it 'Ten Degrees Below Zero'. By 1964 the product swept the country and the mini skirt was born. There was no turning back.

[@ducttapetech9885]

@@MikeGreenwood51 Don't forget the pill.

[@allandavis8201]

You have to give the people who make films like this huge credit for their creativity, with no baseline to work from they produced some amazing effects and insights into the future, not exactly rocket science but something like rocket science. Personally I would rather watch b&w movies from this era and genre than their modern equivalents, the makers of modern movies have so much technology and historical precedent to work from it would be easy for them to not use their imaginations.

[@wilneal8015]

And It Is Easily Noticable That They Are Not😢 That's Why HollyWeird🤡 Does So Much Re-Booting and RetConing✨💩

[@allandavis8201]

@@wilneal8015 Totally agree 100%.

[@BellaFirenze]

There is no need to use totally, if you agree 100%.​@@allandavis8201

[@MissFortune-mk6gn]

@@BellaFirenzeBlah, blah, blah.

[@BellaFirenze]

Mi dispiace moltissimo, ma non ho capito niente. Chi sei? Cosa vuoi essere? Stronza.@@MissFortune-mk6gn

[@carmelbrain7399]

The dog who came into the control room was by far the best actor

[@MartinUToob]

Woof!

[@zetetick395]

I bet even the dog smokes 6 packs a day

[@leelarson107]

Ya got THAT right! This is about three steps below a 1940's 'Poverty Row' production with a $20 budget.

[@DavidRice111]

Yet~ all you detractors prolly stayed for the whole film.

[@zetetick395]

And chain smokin the whole time, guilt free! 💀__👍

[@jwatt9570]

Love those old lockheed Constellations.

[@bonniemoerdyk9809]

True beauties, aren't they?

[@judithmosely5283]

Saw this when I was a kid in the 50s. I still love this movie.

[@edwinlipton]

Put the pause on. Gonna take awhile to regress that far back in my childhood when this was a possibility.

[@mariadelcarmenarranzpanade9259]

El cine progreso más que la aeronáutica.

[@melodiefrances3898]

When these came out they would have been almost 100% speculative, so it would have felt kind of magical watching it.

[@lindalcoomes]

Yes. The oooooooeeeees of the Theramin drove me nuts, but what would good sci be without it! Best of most available today.

[@cowboykelly6590]

So TRUE Ma'am. 🤠🖖 ♨️

[@user-gv3jq1nn2d]

It opens the mind to another possible reality .

[@carycoller3140]

Speculative? The Germans had most of this figured out by the mid 40's. And Sputnik was launched the year previous to this movie. There's nothing speculative here.

[@treeartist9705]

The best part was watching lips move that don't match the dialogue

[@riverraisin1]

I remember this well. The nation was in shock when this movie was robbed of the Academy Award for Best Picture that year.

[@gheloveg719]

I take it this was hyperbole or sarcasm. I went to search it out and could not find any reference to such also, the films competing in both 1958 and 1959 were the likes of Ben Hur and 12 Angry Men, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Defiant ones, etc. Sarcasm is fine but, make it stand out as such, the world is already filled with too much dis & misinformation as it were.

[@Scott.Newmaster]

Really? It doesn't take a "Rocket Scientist " to figure that out. Subtlety not your forte?

[@l337pwnage]

@@gheloveg719 Also, nobody actually cares about those shitty awards. They almost always go to propaganda films, like 12 angry men. Those other movies I'm not familiar with, so I dunno what they were pushing. I think Ben Hur was just some roman empire movie.

[@richierugs6544]

ben hur and 12 are Great movies my friend@@gheloveg719

[@michaelhearne3289]

Ben Hur was a religious movie.

[@obesetuna3164]

A good piece of escapism. Worth watching.

[@onemat2000]

Set the air conditioner for -40 degrees! The same crowd panicking sounds used over and over again. "MY BABY!"

[@cowboykelly6590]

BAHAHAHA...🤣

[@user-hn2bo2pn7t]

The dingo ate it hahahaha

[@stigglescee]

I noticed that too. MY BABY! MY BABY!

[@waltermoldren4991]

That was great ! Gonna watch it twelve more times!

[@zetetick395]

Yeah, you wouldn't want to miss any of its nuances.

[@treeartist9705]

Ok,that proves you're an alien.

[@Hammydavis]

I don’t know why it is. I was born in 58 and to this day my favorite is sci-fi bee movies. I love how serious people were in these movies. It just made me laugh. My oldest sister and I would watch it late and laugh.

[@usmale49]

Not too bad considering it was filmed in 1958! Thanks!!😂

[@billygoat520]

I think it was 1961, and in the newspaper clippings in the beginning JFK is in a header of a story. The Roman numerals read 1961 as well, I think. Perhaps it was filmed in 1958, worked on and released in 1961, the credits would have been last to be finalized.

[@christrotter3052]

Holy Stock Footage! I've never seen so much data calculation in my life. Fun fact: movie was 5x over budget on sound effects...

[@cowboykelly6590]

BAHAHAHA...🤣

[@tomdooley4226]

Best movie that you never watched!

[@nhoquim]

I love 50's movies. The plot of this one is similar to the 1979 Meteor with Sean Connery.

[@james68908]

Fun fact: the English dub voice of John in this film is the late Shane Rimmer, the voice of Scott Tracy in thunderbirds.

[@cowboykelly6590]

😯 What !? To Cool ! Thanks for the info my friend . Much Respect. 🤠🖖 ♨️

[@stephenmitchell3569]

Thank You ,...!!!

[@graemesmith6721]

Yeah, I recognized his voice immediately.

[@zenzen9131]

Thank you so much for this. I knew I'd heard that distinctive voice somewhere :)

[@zetetick395]

C.I.G.

[@alfasdelpi]

Great comedy. I felt compelled to watch it all.

[@nancycatania7763]

Cool movie! Loved the sound effects!

[@lumberlikwidator8863]

Great suspense story! Never seen it before, thanks so much for posting this!

[@socialmeaslesinpartnership1252]

50s, b&w sci fi, proper stinker, just the way we really like them. Especially the cars and how the women were in those days. Brilliant!

[@suebotchie4167]

The women's dresses :)

[@truthadvocacy]

@@suebotchie4167 Not only; much less singles and single mothers; a whole different culture!

[@kathleenking47]

​@suebotcwe could still make them...retro styleshie4167

[@elliottgregory9539]

It's a movie people. Just a movie to enjoy. Nothing more than that... Get it!

[@lauraarcher1730]

No!

[@lauraarcher1730]

No!

[@zetetick395]

'Enjoy' may be too strong a word.

[@s.michaelcampbell918]

Not really. Why aren't the women at home cooking and cleaning?

[@treeartist9705]

Not sure it qualifies as "movie"

[@jp-um2fr]

Great to see nothing's changed across the pond. Well done chaps.

[@msheart2]

This is a Franco Italian movie, chap.

[@michaellehmbeck8671]

My cat Rinco loves this kind of film and lots of spaceships and rockets zooming around!!

[@2degucitas]

I appreciate the time stamps and chapters

[@jimmcintosh184]

The movie is a cool combination of the atom bomb and the V2 rocket. in the immediate aftermath of WW2 these were cutting edge and close to magic in most peoples minds

[@historicusjoe121]

Very good movie! Thanks for posting!

[@z.stone9016]

I don't remember this one. I was probably only 5 or 6 when it came out. Enjoyed seeing it today.

[@mariadelcarmenarranzpanade9259]

😂😂😂.tenías 15

[@doncorleone13]

Very good Classic film

[@juliewillis8182]

I wonder why filmmakers back then thought it would interest audiences to watch a bunch of people sitting in front of big machines yelling out random numbers and such into microphones for such long chunks of film. Without the padding, this movie would have been maybe 10 minutes long. Still better than most of what's being made now.

[@kurtak9452]

Incredibly scientific and profound documentary.....

[@kimba381]

Love the Aussie accents. It's like being there!

[@tb-cg6vd]

Aussie??? That's Scott Tracy from Thunderbirds as the lead!!!

[@cowboykelly6590]

@@tb-cg6vd BAHAHAHA...🤣 without Brain. 🤣

[@davidrosler5413]

Wow. German movies first image is a newspaper headline written in improper english. Way to go, Mister/Madame Proofreader!

[@alex182618]

What a great movie. Many documentary footages obviously.

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

amazing rythm it has

[@garfieldsmith332]

Professor John MacLaren is played by Paul Hubschmid. He used the name Paul Christian when he starred in The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. One hell of a drop in his career from that film to this one.

[@skywatcherpennsylvania5151]

Thank you for the upload

[@dawnemile7499]

Some interesting rocket designs.

[@catface3473]

Wow...just like the moon landing films..far out...neato...😮

[@stevenrussell5340]

Absolutely magnificent movie.

[@carolcarol9982]

At least one of those missiles must have gotten past the asteroids undetonated which means....SEQUEL!

[@michaelkottler]

"This is the end! It's your own fault and you deserve it!" in an angry Scottish accent - One of this film's few high points. For the time, for the genre, and as a kind of cultural time-capsule it has some value and is not the worst Italian sci-fi film, right? Those cinema buffs in the know, edify me.

[@billygoat520]

I recently watched an Italian movie about a WWII Italian sub, I watched it all. It also had a black American in it as a rescued merchant seaman.

[@anonymoususer4644]

Imagen showing up for work one day to deal with being at the top of the overtime list...

[@garfieldsmith332]

Little clunker from Italy. This plot of film is the source for Meteor (1979). Paul Hubschmid used the pseudonym Paul Christian for the film The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms.

[@frase1234]

Scott Tracey (From THUNDERBIRD 1) - His VOICE is in this... G'Day from Melbourne Australia...

[@divaden47]

Plank School of Acting, especially the Moon Man.

[@ArtII2Long]

It seems to me that the orbit should be worked out before the ship takes off, but that's just me.

[@TinaICXCNIKA]

Well this was fun! 👍🏼

[@hosermandeusl2468]

Q: why does KZbin keep activating closed caption in English when the movie is clearly voiced in English?

[@williamleahy8478]

sometimes the audio on my laptop isn't loud enough even at max and I find the CC helpful.

[@stigglescee]

I noticed this on other movies too.

[@2222isabella]

ever thought about people with hearing difficulties???

[@jacqueboyce3176]

maybe some people do not speak american

[@user-hn2bo2pn7t]

The animals are more precise than the 1950s radiotelescopes.

[@zorpia621]

Lot’s of paper data in every scene, most of the movie takes place in the control room, Russians drinking Vodka on the job, neglected housewife, a diehard playboy, never ending annoying sound effects… what’s there not to like? 😅

[@davidfromamerica1871]

This is a classic old Hollywood B movie. 🤗👍😎 We would see these types of movies at the Strand Theater double feature matinee for 25 cents when I was a kid.

[@nunyabiznes4471]

I still prefer it over today’s zeitgeist 🙂

[@martinmowbray4304]

Also annoying kid.

[@gorymarty56]

Lol

[@jamesmatticks70]

😂

[@davidrosler5413]

Paul Hubshmidt is the real name of the lead actor in The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. True!

[@foobarmaximus3506]

This is why I became a young child in the early '60s... So I could watch these movies for free on Saturday afternoons.

[@rogermassey7036]

Great movie

[@blueridgepics]

The comments are worth coming here. 😊😅😂

[@nyccatholic2765]

WONDERFUL!!!! A RARE BOOMER DELIGHT!! THANK YOU🚀🛸🧭🇺🇸

[@davepx1]

Not a bad little European entry in the "menace from space" race, complete with scientist cracking up and seeking to thwart the heroes' efforts, later a genre standard - and an early use of nukes to counter advancing celestial objects. So it's not about to win any top awards, but it's amiable enough fun.

[@vebnew]

Excellent

[@McShave]

Wow, some real sketchy science in this. I'm used to all the hokey stuff (Animals sensing things, white balls of light in the sky, a rocket causing the whole event) but the thing that baffled me was why they invented the Tunguska crater? The Tunguska event famously has no crater.

[@melodiefrances3898]

😂😂😂

[@leelarson107]

You're not supposed to think about that.

[@cowboykelly6590]

Uuhhhh... That WE know of anyway . Doesn't actually mean that governments tell ALL . Sneaks they are.

[@martyconroy3786]

I'm amazed they even knew about Tunguska in 1958, and what caused it...

[@mariadelcarmenarranzpanade9259]

​@@leelarson107muchos condicionantes para futuro en la película,

[@harmonydreamers7165]

Thanks! Go to settings and watch at faster speed... 1.25 is good 1.5 is hilarious. That Mary is quite contrary... drama, drama. Cheers

[@markc7440]

I'm currently on 1.25 and occasionally using the skip 10 seconds function. I figured I will save about 15 or 20 mins.

[@brianw612]

The U Tube intro says 1958, but the movie introduction is MCMLXI at 0:30. That's 1961.

[@stevesloan7132]

"When Man entered the Atomic Age, he opened a door. And what we'll eventually find on the other side of that door no one can say."

[@foobarmaximus3506]

They had exactly the right amount of buttons, flashing lights and radar screens to make this plausible. Very nice. lol

[@user-ns7uw6uw4z]

Very Good Movie.

[@danielvahnke3369]

How many "My baby" loops were there in the mob scene?

[@RobertPaskulovich-fz1th]

This movie cost 25¢ to see at the Saturday matinee in Detroit.

[@RobertPaskulovich-fz1th]

A ticket to see this movie in 1958 at the Saturday matinee in Detroit was 25¢.

[@maikutsukino4743]

Pretty good oldie here but I took specific issue when they showed the "very instructive photo" of what they said was the Tunguska "crater". I'll just say that the photo was NOT of the "crater" because the exact location, size and if it actually has a crater are in debate. There was indeed a large explosion and all signs point to an air burst. Damn. I just got myself going off on an old movie....

[@DickGallo-dk7wi]

My BABY! (4 seconds later.) AAAAARGH! *Repeat in in 6 seconds*

[@princesspiplaysbass]

Haha!

[@karachaffee3343]

They need special magnetic monkeys to warn them of space dangers.

[@Johnalucard-jo3yi]

Wow such classic actors ???

[@daviddickey1994]

So the old meteor-going-to-destroy-the-earth plot is nothing new, is it?

[@41divad]

Seems to have an endless life alright

[@carlosguzman7437]

What is this thing called science?is it anything like Hip Hop or ROCK?

[@darylcumming7119]

I prefer the black and white version . The subtitles switched themselves off and can't be returned back on. Radiation fallout?😊

[@pressureworks]

8:41 The request lines are now open KGOJ Soul Radioooooooooooo !!!

[@brucererek8764]

To think the technology needed for a functional Theremin in outer space would have made all the difference. But alas that would only be achieved in the 1960's.

[@WG-tt6hk]

Made one year after The Night the World Exploded .(1957) By golly! When we blow things up, we don't fu*k around. 😎

[@geowynleda4641]

How did they get a picture of the rocket in orbit on their screens?

[@truthadvocacy]

😂 Not even possible now.

[@cowboykelly6590]

BAHAHAHA...🤣 rocket science.

[@williamleahy8478]

That's science!

[@41divad]

Dirigible

[@dickflinghammer2985]

Same way NASA does. With the magic of Disney.

[@joestrike8537]

copyright date at the beginning of the film says 1961, not1958. (Headline in the newspaper montage mentions JFK, which would also tend to justify the later year)

[@reidmason2551]

1961 is the year this movie was dubbed into English.

[@carmelbrain7399]

golden oldie movie very interesting classic sf

[@foobarmaximus3506]

Genuine 1950's pure authentic jibberish! Just the way I like it.

[@user-kw7mv6iw2d]

There was a movie like this with lots of flowers growing in odd places. I remember a car bonnet being lifted, & there were flowers in the engine bay. Anyone know what it was called?

[@susanm200]

Hollywood played big part in the degeneracy of our culture. Big Time!

[@cowboykelly6590]

Loved the movie. Aaaahhh... those were the days.. All drinking and laughing around the multi-Million $$ Machinery . Oops.. spilled mine !! 🤣 And lil pup coming in to check on what the Hell the partying humans are up to now ! You can tell the pup walks in with this ... OH, NO , Not again ! Attitude ! Before being snatched by the "happy"girl , cuz pup knows .. in space it don't take much of that liquid Devil to get these Humans going ! 🤠🖖 ♨️

[@peterleslie8326]

cheers ccc 6/10👌

[@warluyrochemback3199]

Very good

[@shelleymcafee8197]

Hmmmm, the storyline sounds familiar. 😉😄

[@ElisabethB-fy3wn]

Yep ❤

[@Kneon_Knight]

47:11 Bill Nye, the Early Years.

[@rabit818]

Scaffolding’s were from Fellini’s 81/2

[@am4793]

The music at the start has me scared. I just cranked up the AC to full power to make the room cold and I'm hiding under a sofa throw. 😱

[@marshja56]

Why does the title sequence show a copyright date of MCMLXI (or 1961) for a 1958 film? Was this a re-release or something?

[@falcon664]

1:14:10 Come here quick! Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane..."

[@Noname-gh5ec]

(plane engine roaring) - it took me over 40 minutes to notice the subtitles...

[@robertmatch6550]

Some crosses were fertilized; Shakespeare was shamed; Lasers were circumcized. We're still looking for some escaped atoms.

[@princesspiplaysbass]

MY BABY.......ARGHHHHHH! So bad it makes a great and memorable movie!!?