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Movie Review: On the Beach (1959) |
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
 I'm playing catch up on the reviews today, so expect a couple. The first is the 1959 film adaptation of Nevil Shute's 'On the Beach', directed by Stanley Kramer.
In this 1959 doomsday classic, a U.S. submarine led by Capt. Dwight Towers (Gregory Peck) surfaces near Melbourne, where the passengers learn that nuclear war has wiped out most of humanity. And it won't be long before radiation kills the Australians as well. The tense drama features standout performances by Peck, Ava Gardner as Towers's lover, Fred Astaire as a guilt-wracked scientist and Anthony Perkins and Donna Anderson as newlyweds.
If nothing else, it's a fatalistic story that stars several of the renown late-period B&W film stars, and that should be worth watching in itself.
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