On the Beach (1959)

Het verhaal speelt in de toekomst (1964) wanneer bijna al het leven op aarde is vernietigd door de radioactiviteit van een nucleaire holocaust. Alleen Australië is gespaard gebleven, maar het is slechts een kwestie van tijd voor ook zij de radioactiviteit zullen ondervinden. De Australiërs hebben allemaal een verschillende visie op hun naderende einde. Sommigen leven er op los en anderen nemen massaal de beschikbare zelfmoordpillen. Wanneer ze horen dat regenval een gedeelte van de atmosfeer van het Noordelijk halfrond kan hebben schoongemaakt vertrekt een onderzee-kapitein met zijn bemanning naar het Noorden om ...
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Although there'd been "doomsday dramas" before it, Stanley Kramer's On the Beach was considered the first "important" entry in this genre when originally released in 1959. Based on the novel by Nevil Shute, the film is set in the future (1964) when virtually all life on earth has been exterminated by the radioactive residue of a nuclear holocaust. Only Australia has been spared, but it's only a matter of time before everyone Down Under also succumbs to radiation poisoning. With only a short time left on earth, the Australian population reacts in different ways: some go on a nonstop binge of revelry, while others ...
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eagerly consume the suicide pills being issued by the government. When the possibility arises that rains have washed the atmosphere clean in the Northern hemisphere, a submarine commander (Gregory Peck) and his men head to San Diego, where faint radio signals have been emanating. The movie's all-star cast includes: Peck as the stalwart sub captain, Ava Gardner as his emotionally disturbed lover, Fred Astaire as a guilt-wracked nuclear scientist, and Anthony Perkins and Donna Anderson as the "just starting out in life" married couple.
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After the entire Northern Hemisphere is destroyed by a nuclear war, a group of survivors in Australia prepare for their own inevitable demise. As a deadly cloud of radiation creeps toward the continent, some survivors cling to hopes that life as they know it has continued somewhere, hopes that are fed by the discovery of a mysterious, erratic radio signal emanating from San Diego. Others, such as Astaire's sardonic, race-car driving physicist and Gardner's world-weary, tippling party girl, throw their energies into squeezing the last drops from their lives. A grim, unflinching clarion call for sanity that inches ...
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along at a maddeningly deliberate and suspenseful pace. Based on the novel by Nevil Shute. Academy Award Nominations: 2, Best Editing (Frederic Knudtson) and Best Score (Ernest Gold).
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