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Cmdr. Dwight Lionel Towers
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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.
When the survivors receive a strange signal from San Diego, Cmdr. Dwight Towers (Gregory Peck) must undertake a mission with Lt. Peter Holmes (Anthony Perkins) to see if there is hope for humanity...
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On the Beach (1959) was Kramer's anti-atom bomb polemic in which Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Anthony Perkins and Fred Astaire survive an initial nuclear holocaust only to face a slow, painful death from fallout.
In 1964, the nuclear submarine USS Sawfish arrives in Australia after the worldwide nuclear holocaust. Commander Dwight Lionel Towers confirms that the world has been destroyed and the nuclear dust is coming to Australia.
Directed by Stanley Kramer. With Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire.On the Beach DVD : https://amzn.to/3HzK7vsOn the Beach Blu-ray : https://amzn.to/...
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.
Director. Nevil Shute. Novel. John Paxton. Screenplay. Written by John Chard on September 13, 2015. In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair.
