:up This is an awesome movie, almost as good as the book, Saturday on Cinema 8:
Nuclear-war survivors wait in a U.S. sub off the coast of 1964 Australia. Directed by Stanley Kramer. From the Nevil Shute book.
Starring:
Gregory Peck
Ava Gardner
Fred Astaire
Anthony Perkins
Aspect ratio 1.66 : 1
Summary: Stanley Kramer's 1959 antiwar movie looks like everything Kramer did: subtle as a car wreck but undeniably affecting. Gregory Peck plays a submarine commander looking for survivors in Australia after a nuclear holocaust. Ava Gardner is among them and, somewhat improbably under the circumstances, becomes his love interest. Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins are among the characters awaiting death from the gradual spread of radiation from the north. One might scoff at Kramer's implicit finger-wagging about nuclear politics in this mad, mad, mad, mad world, but it is hard to stop watching this compelling drama all the same. --Tom Keogh
Nuclear-war survivors wait in a U.S. sub off the coast of 1964 Australia. Directed by Stanley Kramer. From the Nevil Shute book.
Starring:
Gregory Peck
Ava Gardner
Fred Astaire
Anthony Perkins
Epics-HD: On the Beach **** (1959, SciFi)
Aspect ratio 1.66 : 1
Summary: Stanley Kramer's 1959 antiwar movie looks like everything Kramer did: subtle as a car wreck but undeniably affecting. Gregory Peck plays a submarine commander looking for survivors in Australia after a nuclear holocaust. Ava Gardner is among them and, somewhat improbably under the circumstances, becomes his love interest. Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins are among the characters awaiting death from the gradual spread of radiation from the north. One might scoff at Kramer's implicit finger-wagging about nuclear politics in this mad, mad, mad, mad world, but it is hard to stop watching this compelling drama all the same. --Tom Keogh
