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On the Beach is a 1959 American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film from United Artists starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins. Produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, [2] it is based on Nevil Shute 's 1957 novel On the Beach depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war. [3]
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On the Beach: Directed by Stanley Kramer. With Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins. After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
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Sep 18, 2020 · On The Beach. Topics. Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, 1959. In early 1964, in the months following World War III, the conflict has devastated the entirety of the Northern Hemisphere, killing all humans after polluting the atmosphere with nuclear fallout. Air currents are slowly carrying the fallout south; the only ...
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The Sawfish first arrives at Point Barrow, Alaska, in the Arctic Ocean, only to find that the radiation levels are actually intensifying. Next they visit an untouched but ghostly quiet San Francisco. One of the crew, yeoman Ralph Swain ( John Meillon ), who had family there, deserts the sub through an escape hatch and swims ashore.
Dave Kehr Chicago Reader A tiresome, talky 1959 film. Nov 7, 2007 Full Review Geoff Andrew Time Out Fine photography, but the script is a typically numbing affair, and the cast, aside from Peck ...
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On the Beach received two Academy Award nominations, for Best Film Editing and Best Music (Score). In 2000 the Showtime cable network and an Australian company, Coote Hayes Productions, co-produced a three-part television miniseries of On the Beach starring Armand Assante, Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown, directed by Russell Mulcahy. Unlike the ...
On the Beach, American dramatic film, released in 1959, that was set in the aftermath of an imagined World War III. It was based on the apocalyptic novel of the same name by Nevil Shute. The fatal fallout of nuclear war in the year 1964 serves as the fictional backdrop for romance between a navy.
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