Merci beaucoup, Paul, et félicitations pour votre reportage sur ce qu'il est advenu des lieux de tournage de ''On the Beach'' (''Le Dernier Rivage" en français) à Melbourne en 1959. D'après ce que j'ai observé, il me semble qu'en général le public est très intéressé de pouvoir situer les scènes de films qui ont marqué l'histoire du cinéma comme celui-ci qui, à l'époque, fit l'effet d'une bombe à sa sortie. Pour l'avoir effectué moi-même, je sais combien il est difficile de retrouver les emplacements des scènes tournées il y a très longtemps, plus de 60 ans pour ''On the Beach'', c'est comme mener une enquête policière avec seulement quelques indices en notre possession. De plus, quand les protagonistes sont des stars comme Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire et Anthony Perkins qui sont inscrits dans la mémoire collective, c'est très émouvant de découvrir la plage où Ava Gardner et Gregory Peck courraient dans le film. Merci encore pour votre travail.
Merci pour vos aimables paroles et merci d'avoir regardé. Les Français étaient si accueillants et gentils lors de ma visite en 2001. J'adorais votre pays. J'espère revenir. I hope google translated this correctly 😬
My apartment in st kilda was the host of some of the cast parties. The owner of the 50s apartment was involved in the theatre. Back in the time pubs and clubs had limited trading and st kilda was the bohemian suburb with artists and actors. 😊
Thanks!!! great Job, 1959 I was 11 years old . I remember when the film came out very controversial, and scary. 3 years later the REAL scary Cuban missile crisis. Little did I know just a few years latter in 1966 I would become a US Submariner on a Doomsday Polaris submarine a Cold War Machine capable of total destruction as in the movie. This movie has always been a part of my past experience and thoughts. i pray it never really happens and stays just that a science fiction Novel
The submarine used was a Royal Navy submarine - HMS/M Andrew (I served on her some years later as part on my submariner qualification training). The aircraft carrier is HMAS Melbourne. The part where Ava Gardner ran up the hill (on the farm) was on Lord and Lady Casey's Edrington Park Estate in Berwick - Wilson Botanical Gardens in Berwick was also used for several shots. The majority of the creek / water shots were filmed in the northern part of the Berwick showgrounds. My son-in-law's father was a young boy in 1959 and (along with the Berwick locals) watched the filming taking place! Oh yes, and I served on Britain's first Polaris Submarine - HMS/M Resolution.
Thank you for that Mike. I could of used your expertise during the production of this one. I can't think of anything more scary than being in a submarine.
I am embarrassed to say as an American that The Dept of Defense refused to assist Stanley Kramer with the use of an American submarine for the film! They didn't like the negative image the film portrayed of the Defense Department and Nuclear War.
The way Stanley Kramer manages the scifi in this film is more terrifying because is done through the melodrama. Never the fear about nuclear disaster felt so close. The awkward sensation and the suffocating atmosphere starts from the very beginning. Some scenes have such power that can squash your feelings, but one the best things is the chemistry between the actors.
Such an awesome movie. Recently rewatched it again during out lockdown in SaN Francisco. So prescient given what’s has been going in the world. As a single person I could relate to both the Fred Astaire and Ava Gardner characters. A beautiful and somber movie. Wish they made more like these.
If "On The Beach" itself is a masterpiece on the grandest scale (although, like "Citizen Kane", it manages to be both monumental and intimate), on its necessarily more limited terms (and budget!) this two-part documentary is itself a masterpiece of sorts. It should, as a matter of course, be added as an "extra" to every future DVD or Blu-ray release of the film.
I was 3 years old when my parents went to see this movie in the theater. When it came on TV, some years later my mom made sure i watched it.The only one bad thing about this film is I cannot hear Waltzing Mathilda without feeling a little sad. Great film and great vid about the locations. Thank you
Thanks Paul, I actually dedicated a post on my Facebook to Hans Wetzel, who was the sound engineer for "On the Beach", who in later life ran a movie museum in Buderim, QLD. It has gone now, but as a lad I spent many times talking to him and listening to him reflect on the moving image, in particular about the film "On the Beach". Many years later I became an Army Illustrator and Multimedia Technician involved in drawing, filming and editing some of the armys training films and products etc. I’m not sure what he would've thought about that, but he made such an influence on me at a time when growing up on the Sunshine Coast had limited prospects. Sometimes when I view "On the Beach" I can't help but get that tear in the corner of my eye each time I see his name appear in the film's credits. It was, and still is a memory so endearing and enduring for me. I miss those chats and wish I could go back to at least see him that one more time. Thanks for this. I thought I was the only person who had an interest in the film.
Excellent film...Watch it, at least, once a year. Plus, the Rachel Ward and Armand Assante, version. The ending is different, but has its place too. Paul, thank you for your work. It's truly a great movie!!! Boy! The closing music brought a lump to my throat. And it's "only" a documentary. Nah. It's a lot more...It's all the past individuals, that ever lived, and will ever live. Thanks again, Paul.
The Melbourne trams 1007 and 815 in the movie are very similar to the ones we ran in Seattle for a number of years. In your modern portion, tram 1010 is seen. We had 605, 518, 512, 482, and 272. My ex also met Stanley Kramer at a party at his house and for another odd connection, an ex in law went to high school with Ava Gardner. He stated that while she was a looker, she was "crusty." I absolutely love what you have done with these posts. Thank you so much for doing this.
McGill's Newsagency was seen at 5:18. During the nineties I used to buy magazines from McGill's. The store carried a lot of hard-to-get magazines from overseas, delivered via air freight.
14:54 Ava Gardner, a stunningly beautiful woman, a knockout ❗Sadly she died of pneumonia at the very young age of 67 in 1990. I live only 850 metres from Kramer Drive, Berwick, btw, up on a hill
OUTSTANDING! Really enjoyed your quest. Having the scenes side by side was a treat. I share your love for the movie as it brought to the screen the first novel I ever read. Just seeing a short clip brings tears. A masterpiece. Thanks for putt up with the fences, the heat and of corse the flys.
Gellibrand Pier. I used to fish off it mornings in the early 1970's as a young teenager. Even back then it was very dilapidated and a safety hazard. Planks missing and/or rotten in a lot of places. I had to climb a very high cyclone wire fence with barbed wire to get onto the pier and was chased off a couple of times by security people from the adjacent military pier to the west. Fishing was the best in Williamstown.
As well as On The Beach, I've also seen the similarly-themed These Final Hours and One Night Stand - both Australian films. One Night Stand even pre-dates the British nuclear war classic Threads.
I understand that that the 'USS Swordfish' in the movie was played by HMS Andrew, a modernised British Amphion Class submarine. HMS Andrew was scrapped long ago, but her sister boat, HMS Alliance, is open to visitors at the Submarine Museum, Gosport, in England.
I seem to remember a scene filmed on Swanston St on the SW footpath filming NW towards the CUB brewery. I remember recognising the old Classic Restaurant, a cafeteria just a few doors down from Young and Jackson's. My mum would take us there when we went to the city.
I greatly enjoyed your videos. One important aspect of "On the Beach' is that it preserved on film the Melbourne area as it was in 1959; a far nicer place, in my opinion, and apparently yours. I've never been to Melbourne and likely never will be. However, I feel a kinship with the city, due to a penpal of many years standing who lived in Otford, near Sydney, loved Melbourne, and visited the city as often as possible.
Loved this. Thanks. Great film, and book. Both are gut wrenching. I'd just like to say to the people and places that wouldn't allow filming, boooooo! Booooooo! I bet they're sorry now. 😁
*** I refer to the submarine as the USS Swordfish when it's actually called USS Sawfish. In case you're wondering, I have booked myself in for a hearing test*** On the Beach can be purchased here for Region B www.amazon.co.uk/Beach-Special-Blu-ray-Gregory-Peck/dp/B010SRZFGS/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1537265434&sr=1-2&keywords=on+the+beach and Region A www.amazon.com/Beach-Blu-ray-Gregory-Peck/dp/B00KOW4BO0/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1537265522&sr=1-1&keywords=on+the+beach&refinements=p_n_format_browse-bin%3A2650305011
My granddad was an immigration officer for the Australian government in the 1950s, based in Melbourne, and it was he and his team that legally permitted the cast and crew of On The Beach to enter Melbourne to make the film. My granddad recalled that each crew and cast member had to come in his office to fill out legal documents to be permitted - he said Ava Gardner wanted her rep team to fill out the forms for her, but granddad made it clear that Ms Gardner had to come in on her own and fill out the legal forms - so she did! Granddad never mentioned his meetings with Gregory Peck, the director or the other cast/ crew but it's likely he did meet them all.
I would have enjoyed reading the Philip Davey book you publicized during the video, but (a) it's nearly 20 years old, (b) published in Australia, and (c) appears to have been self-published. No one up here in the USofA has it.
Многие зарубежные фильмы в СССР не показывали мы стали их смотреть после развала хорошо сейчас все доступно.Фильм очень даже современный,с такими трогательными сценами,Ава Гарднер красавица.
FUN FACT : Ava Gardner did NOT say "Melbourne was the perfect place to make a film about the end of the world"... the author of the piece in the Sydney Morning Herald that contained the quote, Neil Jillett, admitted that the quote was fabricated. He was writing a tongue-in-cheek piece about the filming at the time, and attributed the quote to Gardner in a friend of a friend way, and then his editor changed it to a direct quote from Gardner.
I'm old enough to remember all of this happening at the time. It was certainly a major event in Melbourne and as the video shows all of the scenes were well publicised in the media. Ava Gardner was reputed to have said "Melbourne was an appropriate place to film the end of the world", but this is generally thought to be apocryphal.
At 7:05 you were correct that the pub was around in 1959. As it was (as the Prince of Wales Hotel) in about 1871 in this glass plate photo that you can keep zooming in for ages with the mouse wheel : acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_Zoomify/2011/D13950/a2825122.html My mother always talked about the excitement at Williamstown at the time of about half the town going down to the piers to see Gregory Peck in 1959. Most of the piers had public access until into the 1960s. Great coverage.
My dad was involved with the shooting of On the Beach and his only comment was reinforced by this youtube clip. He said Ava Gardner had the foulest mouth he'd ever heard on a woman. The experience turned him off Hollywood actors and actresses for life.
The newer version had more australians in it but too explicit In the sex and sickness scenes Bryan brown was the down to Earth aussie .. classic line when Confronting towers for the first Time! Who the #### are you
At 19:00 who is the man on the right with the microphone ... looks a little like Geoff Brooke ... a singer and later on became a judge on Kevin Dennis New Faces.
206 Domain rd. This is not the original building that was on the site during the making of the film. The original was owned by Sir Norman Brookes and his wife Dame Mabel Brookes. It was famous for the fact that Lt Lyndon B Johnson later a USA President stayed there as house guest for a time during WW11. It was a lovely house. Another loss to Melbourne
Thanks, really amazing job! But I have two question about the movie :) 1.Who is the man in the portrait hanging on the wall? I searched everywhere on internet and i have only a guess; Sir Joseph Cook. 2.why "SMOKING" was written on the trains? Sorry for my bad english, but i'm really curious about these questions.
The submarine used to represent USS Sawfish was a composite of several subs. Sawfish was fictional, the only Sawfish was a WW2 diesel submarine. Several records say the HMS Andrew, a Royal Navy submarine was used for the shooting in Melbourne, however I find this a bit odd. Why would a Royal Navy boat be used when we actually had quite good stand-ins of our own, the Oberon Class boats. The old freighter 'Time' was beached on the rocks at Point Nepean, and when Kramer saw it, he said it looked too much like a seaworthy ship coming out of the heads, and as there were not supposed to be any ships at sea, he wanted it removed. Consequently, the Army Engineers blew up the Time with explosives to reduce the wreck and scatter it. As noted in the video, the Commonwealth building at the Show Grounds was used for several sets. After the shoot concluded, the submarine interior, which was very detailed, was open to the public during the Royal Melbourne Show. I went to see it that year. I was at school at the time, and one of my teachers, who was in amateur theatre, played one of the people queueing up for pills on the steps of the Library building. Sir Norman and Dame Mabel Brooks did indeed live at the address shown, however that is not the original building, the original was quite small. The building shown occupies the original building's site on the corner, plus the allottment next door.
My parents had told me about the 'Time' being destroyed for the movie, but until reading your post, I couldn't find any reference to it. Admittedly, I thought it was further up the Bay. Your post pinpoints the location much better. It may be my search technique, but there doesn't seem to be much documentation about it. Thanks.
@@marksierra7920 The Time was wrecked on Corsair Rock at Point Nepean. Youi can pin-point the rock if you type "corsair rock" into Google Maps, it is marked quite accurately.
Strange little tinkers, these RUclips algae rhythms: jump the gun with misguided enthusiasm most of the time - and then once in a while, an obscure bullseye. Probably Aristotle's 'infinite monkeys' theory at play. (Don't quote me on that; I haven't bothered looking up the etymology, and clearly Aristotle never cited Shakespeare.) Thoroughly enjoyed your guided tour, Paul. In fact I'll venture so bold you're among the most agreeable tour guides I've seen. Nary a whoop nor a holler throughout: I like that. Yet none of the stilted, sub-Dickensian gibberish prose I employ for RUclips comments (and which one might encounter in, say, a 'Jack the Ripper' guide). I also like that. A good bloke, if you will. I convey no lesser compliment than that I'm composing this comment while I should be rifling off an absence email to work. ATCHOO! Bless me. I suppose I should hurry it along. I was always a prodigious film buff from childhood. That is to say, I liked films. Certain films, not all. I distinctly recall 'On the Beach' being among my favourites - although there's no way I could appreciate an ounce of the plot or subtext. An elusive ambience. I'd never thought to punt a search at locations (to be honest, OTB has been superseded in terms of charm by many other films) but that would stand to reason as part of the ambience. For all the damage inflicted by the pervasive testicles of purported progress, Melbourne district can still be commended for nuggets of natural beauty. My enduring thumbnail reference for the film would be the walk up the cliff and Psycho kissing that beautiful woman on the seat. If I were to proffer any constructive criticism to Stanley Kramer it would be that he might have expanded on this theme and marketed it as - On the Seat. Father emitted a coarse chuckle when the passing jolly swagman imparted, "Give her one for me, mate." My late mother would have found that quite objectionable. (R.I.P.) Touched to see a naval vessel named in honour of Steve Irwin, the loveable crocodile fiddler. (R.I.P.)
I don't get it only 229 views at the time of writing this. Clearly needs a little promotion. It's a fun, interesting, romp round Melbourne & environs with the cause of discovery held high. It's also relevant for me as I'm currently re-writing On the Beach. In my version Melbourne is the first place to die out after a world wide plague slowly envelops the world. We follow the crew of the Williamstown Life Saves Club surf boat as row north in futile effort to escape inevitable doom.
I heard that Gardner was not impressed with Melbourne - when asked what she thought of it she said it was half the size of New York cemetery and twice as dead. (Apologies if you mentioned this in the video.)
lol , nice try , you made that up, it's nowhere online also FUN FACT : Ava Gardner did NOT say "Melbourne was the perfect place to make a film about the end of the world"... the author of the piece in the Sydney Morning Herald that contained the quote, Neil Jillett, admitted that the quote was fabricated. He was writing a tongue-in-cheek piece about the filming at the time, and attributed the quote to Gardner in a friend of a friend way, and then his editor changed it to a direct quote from Gardner.
@@glengrbesa4234 I've found many of them but not the street where Jacqueline McKenzie is waiting for her father in front of the green house early in the film. The house is number 63 of some unknown street. Also the huge factory building where the two women are talking to the guy through the little hole in the door towards the end. Almost giving up on those two locations.
@@PaulHagl Right, i'll have to watch the film again to make sure which house but i definately know which street as i lived around the corner and walked past while they were filming.
That’s harsh mate 😂 I was more focused on the film back then. If I did it nowadays I probably would have talked about it. I was too distraught over the pier being off limits.
My DAD Brian V Carroll A Well respected stock station Agent in Dandenong son of 2 mayors in the 70's and 80's purchased thee horse drawn vehicle a jinker black with red pin striping where Ava Gardner&Gregory Peck, Port sea Victoria I'm looking for the complete movie for the footage? he later drove the prime-minster Golf Whitlam in a procession in fern tree gully and drove all day 40 k pulling a shalom a x pacer with a bung eye injured it racing i have a phote to post T . Carroll...
From 4:43 and the Mazda lamps cat, this circa 1965 view of the cat with advertisement present in 4K and colour in a NFSA film may be of of interest : ruclips.net/video/TC7D5T_m_-k/видео.html Lots of the streets earlier in this film look very deserted in 1965 and like On the Beach scenes, but maybe just filmed early morning or Sunday morning especially back then.
What would happen if you filmed inside the Now Rondeau Hotel with a hidden camera 🎥 ?😮. Back in 1959 Melbourne was more that willing to publish every detail about the film. Now they could care less! If I had done this retro film I would have contacted the cities publicity dept. so they could help open doors to places I wanted to film.
They said they had a previous bad experience with a RUclipsr. I shouldn’t have mentioned RUclips at all. They only let me take photos because I asked to go in without the video camera. You’re right and I would have done that differently now. Still kicking myself.
'' On The Beach ''1959, the scariest movie of all time by its falling-of-the-guillotine-blade-finality. No hyperbolic grand opera grandiloquence. Just the stark facts in b/w. A colorized version would be sacrilege. Tchernobyl and Fukushima have shown us that this is no fantasy.
Scarier than Threads? I don't think so.. But it's the sheer inevitability and its effects on people seemingly in Paradise that is most affecting about On The Beach.
Yes, the U.S. Navy wouldn't provide an Up To Date submarine for the filming. This movie and Ice Station Zebra using old diesel subs. Would have been so much better with a Skipjack Class.
Ava Gardner described Melbourne as the ass end of the earth. I take it she was less than impressed with our fair city. Oh well, we were last to survive the Short War anyway.
Emma James The term Down under was actually an American term that meant the very same thing. Australians took it as an actual compliment lol not knowing what it actually meant.
It's better than the remake The black and white version Gives the gloomy effect of Nuclear holocaust Also not so explicit in sex and Sickness The american stars gave it the International appeal to sell it
Gregory Pecks house most likely demolished by the Chinese. Don't be surprised to find Gellibrand pier under a 99 year lease by the Chinese. Thanks to Labor's Daniel Andrews Isn't it so uplifting!!!!😂
FUN FACT : Ava Gardner did NOT say "Melbourne was the perfect place to make a film about the end of the world"... the author of the piece in the Sydney Morning Herald that contained the quote, Neil Jillett, admitted that the quote was fabricated. He was writing a tongue-in-cheek piece about the filming at the time, and attributed the quote to Gardner in a friend of a friend way, and then his editor changed it to a direct quote from Gardner.
Merci beaucoup, Paul, et félicitations pour votre reportage sur ce qu'il est advenu des lieux de tournage de ''On the Beach'' (''Le Dernier Rivage" en français) à Melbourne en 1959. D'après ce que j'ai observé, il me semble qu'en général le public est très intéressé de pouvoir situer les scènes de films qui ont marqué l'histoire du cinéma comme celui-ci qui, à l'époque, fit l'effet d'une bombe à sa sortie. Pour l'avoir effectué moi-même, je sais combien il est difficile de retrouver les emplacements des scènes tournées il y a très longtemps, plus de 60 ans pour ''On the Beach'', c'est comme mener une enquête policière avec seulement quelques indices en notre possession. De plus, quand les protagonistes sont des stars comme Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire et Anthony Perkins qui sont inscrits dans la mémoire collective, c'est très émouvant de découvrir la plage où Ava Gardner et Gregory Peck courraient dans le film. Merci encore pour votre travail.
Merci pour vos aimables paroles et merci d'avoir regardé. Les Français étaient si accueillants et gentils lors de ma visite en 2001. J'adorais votre pays. J'espère revenir. I hope google translated this correctly 😬
@@PaulHagl : Yes, Paul, the translation is OK, thank you for your answer.
My apartment in st kilda was the host of some of the cast parties. The owner of the 50s apartment was involved in the theatre. Back in the time pubs and clubs had limited trading and st kilda was the bohemian suburb with artists and actors. 😊
I saw this alone as an 11-year-old in 1959 and loved it. Yes, I was a weird child.
Nothing weird about that mate
I saw it on TV when I was much younger than that. I loved it too. All my friends liked it was well.
Thanks!!! great Job, 1959 I was 11 years old . I remember when the film came out very controversial, and scary. 3 years later the REAL scary Cuban missile crisis. Little did I know just a few years latter in 1966 I would become a US Submariner on a Doomsday Polaris submarine a Cold War Machine capable of total destruction as in the movie. This movie has always been a part of my past experience and thoughts. i pray it never really happens and stays just that a science fiction Novel
The submarine used was a Royal Navy submarine - HMS/M Andrew (I served on her some years later as part on my submariner qualification training). The aircraft carrier is HMAS Melbourne. The part where Ava Gardner ran up the hill (on the farm) was on Lord and Lady Casey's Edrington Park Estate in Berwick - Wilson Botanical Gardens in Berwick was also used for several shots. The majority of the creek / water shots were filmed in the northern part of the Berwick showgrounds. My son-in-law's father was a young boy in 1959 and (along with the Berwick locals) watched the filming taking place! Oh yes, and I served on Britain's first Polaris Submarine - HMS/M Resolution.
Thank you for that Mike. I could of used your expertise during the production of this one. I can't think of anything more scary than being in a submarine.
That was before hmas melbourne became a jinx ship
Slicing up two destroyers
Voyager and Franklin d Evans!
I am embarrassed to say as an American that The Dept of Defense refused to assist Stanley Kramer with the use of an American submarine for the film! They didn't like the negative image the film portrayed of the Defense Department and Nuclear War.
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The way Stanley Kramer manages the scifi in this film is more terrifying because is done through the melodrama. Never the fear about nuclear disaster felt so close.
The awkward sensation and the suffocating atmosphere starts from the very beginning. Some scenes have such power that can squash your feelings, but one the best things is the chemistry between the actors.
Such an awesome movie. Recently rewatched it again during out lockdown in SaN Francisco. So prescient given what’s has been going in the world. As a single person I could relate to both the Fred Astaire and Ava Gardner characters. A beautiful and somber movie. Wish they made more like these.
The older films are far better than the newer ones🍀
Amen!
Outstanding! Wish more people bothered to watch this, it's excellent!
Thank you, very happy you enjoyed it.
If "On The Beach" itself is a masterpiece on the grandest scale (although, like "Citizen Kane", it manages to be both monumental and intimate), on its necessarily more limited terms (and budget!) this two-part documentary is itself a masterpiece of sorts. It should, as a matter of course, be added as an "extra" to every future DVD or Blu-ray release of the film.
❤ what a great channel. sub from U.K.
I was 3 years old when my parents went to see this movie in the theater. When it came on TV, some years later my mom made sure i watched it.The only one bad thing about this film is I cannot hear Waltzing Mathilda without feeling a little sad. Great film and great vid about the locations. Thank you
Thanks Paul, I actually dedicated a post on my Facebook to Hans Wetzel, who was the sound engineer for "On the Beach", who in later life ran a movie museum in Buderim, QLD. It has gone now, but as a lad I spent many times talking to him and listening to him reflect on the moving image, in particular about the film "On the Beach". Many years later I became an Army Illustrator and Multimedia Technician involved in drawing, filming and editing some of the armys training films and products etc. I’m not sure what he would've thought about that, but he made such an influence on me at a time when growing up on the Sunshine Coast had limited prospects. Sometimes when I view "On the Beach" I can't help but get that tear in the corner of my eye each time I see his name appear in the film's credits. It was, and still is a memory so endearing and enduring for me. I miss those chats and wish I could go back to at least see him that one more time. Thanks for this. I thought I was the only person who had an interest in the film.
Thank you 🙏 there are more On the Beach fans out there then you would think. Thanks for letting me know about Hans Wetzel. I wish I met him.
Thank you for making this video, I was born in Frankston 7.8.57,grew up in Frankston had a great time, great history, bless you 😊
Excellent film...Watch it, at least, once a year. Plus, the Rachel Ward and Armand Assante, version. The ending is different, but has its place too. Paul, thank you for your work. It's truly a great movie!!! Boy! The closing music brought a lump to my throat. And it's "only" a documentary. Nah. It's a lot more...It's all the past individuals, that ever lived, and will ever live. Thanks again, Paul.
The Melbourne trams 1007 and 815 in the movie are very similar to the ones we ran in Seattle for a number of years. In your modern portion, tram 1010 is seen. We had 605, 518, 512, 482, and 272. My ex also met Stanley Kramer at a party at his house and for another odd connection, an ex in law went to high school with Ava Gardner. He stated that while she was a looker, she was "crusty." I absolutely love what you have done with these posts. Thank you so much for doing this.
Thank you 🙏 It only took a year to make.
The Mazda lamps cat! Thanks for making this series.
McGill's Newsagency was seen at 5:18. During the nineties I used to buy magazines from McGill's. The store carried a lot of hard-to-get magazines from overseas, delivered via air freight.
Brilliant work Paul, thank you mate.
Fascinating.
Thanks.
Finished reading book again, last night. Saw film on TV, years ago.
I see Melbourne, then and now.
I know which I prefer!
14:54 Ava Gardner, a stunningly beautiful woman, a knockout ❗Sadly she died of pneumonia at the very young age of 67 in 1990. I live only 850 metres from Kramer Drive, Berwick, btw, up on a hill
Well done mate. Loved the movie. Thanks for the tour forward :)
I've read the book own the film and just watched your location comparisons , absolutely fantastic , Bravo.
One of my favorite books, films and city's. This made me homesick!! Love Millburn.
I was excited that they filmed on the Mornington Peninsula & Frankston.
Hugely entertaining comm and as exciting as the actual film.
Love your videos; made all the more entertaining by your humbleness. A real antidote to most RUclipsrs.
My mother meet Ava Gardner when she was a young girl in Cooma where some of the cast from the movie holidayed at the snow during filming.
Is always. Good work.
OUTSTANDING! Really enjoyed your quest. Having the scenes side by side was a treat. I share your love for the movie as it brought to the screen the first novel I ever read. Just seeing a short clip brings tears. A masterpiece. Thanks for putt up with the fences, the heat and of corse the flys.
Wonderful movie experience!!!!
Gellibrand Pier. I used to fish off it mornings in the early 1970's as a young teenager. Even back then it was very dilapidated and a safety hazard. Planks missing and/or rotten in a lot of places. I had to climb a very high cyclone wire fence with barbed wire to get onto the pier and was chased off a couple of times by security people from the adjacent military pier to the west. Fishing was the best in Williamstown.
Brilliant !!!
Thank you for this you clearly love the movie as i do .
Hey good stuff mate. Well unpacked.
These videos are wonderful... Thank you so much!
Very interesting, thanks so much for this research. I particularly love the score by Ernest Gold, based solely on Waltzing Matilda.
When I lived in willy in 89 you could still access the some of the piers. I love the history and industry of the area..
As well as On The Beach, I've also seen the similarly-themed These Final Hours and One Night Stand - both Australian films. One Night Stand even pre-dates the British nuclear war classic Threads.
PageMonster both ripper of Aussie movies. The tv scene in One Night Stand rivals any of the other apocalyptic movies on the same subject.
The Day After is really good too
Thanks so much - loved it!
I understand that that the 'USS Swordfish' in the movie was played by HMS Andrew, a modernised British Amphion Class submarine.
HMS Andrew was scrapped long ago, but her sister boat, HMS Alliance, is open to visitors at the Submarine Museum, Gosport, in England.
Fabulous
@5:05 something I cannot un-see... the Cat on Elizabeth Street... I grew up in Melbourne, and that is the first time I have noticed it....
Nicely done.
Well done. Very interesting.
I seem to remember a scene filmed on Swanston St on the SW footpath filming NW towards the CUB brewery. I remember recognising the old Classic Restaurant, a cafeteria just a few doors down from Young and Jackson's. My mum would take us there when we went to the city.
Wonderful. Do more!
I greatly enjoyed your videos. One important aspect of "On the Beach' is that it preserved on film the Melbourne area as it was in 1959; a far nicer place, in my opinion, and apparently yours. I've never been to Melbourne and likely never will be. However, I feel a kinship with the city, due to a penpal of many years standing who lived in Otford, near Sydney, loved Melbourne, and visited the city as often as possible.
Loved this. Thanks. Great film, and book. Both are gut wrenching.
I'd just like to say to the people and places that wouldn't allow filming, boooooo! Booooooo! I bet they're sorry now. 😁
*** I refer to the submarine as the USS Swordfish when it's actually called USS Sawfish. In case you're wondering, I have booked myself in for a hearing test***
On the Beach can be purchased here for Region B
www.amazon.co.uk/Beach-Special-Blu-ray-Gregory-Peck/dp/B010SRZFGS/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1537265434&sr=1-2&keywords=on+the+beach
and Region A
www.amazon.com/Beach-Blu-ray-Gregory-Peck/dp/B00KOW4BO0/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1537265522&sr=1-1&keywords=on+the+beach&refinements=p_n_format_browse-bin%3A2650305011
My granddad was an immigration officer for the Australian government in the 1950s, based in Melbourne, and it was he and his team that legally permitted the cast and crew of On The Beach to enter Melbourne to make the film.
My granddad recalled that each crew and cast member had to come in his office to fill out legal documents to be permitted - he said Ava Gardner wanted her rep team to fill out the forms for her, but granddad made it clear that Ms Gardner had to come in on her own and fill out the legal forms - so she did! Granddad never mentioned his meetings with Gregory Peck, the director or the other cast/ crew but it's likely he did meet them all.
I would have enjoyed reading the Philip Davey book you publicized during the video, but (a) it's nearly 20 years old, (b) published in Australia, and (c) appears to have been self-published. No one up here in the USofA has it.
Многие зарубежные фильмы в СССР не показывали мы стали их смотреть после развала хорошо сейчас все доступно.Фильм очень даже современный,с такими трогательными сценами,Ава Гарднер красавица.
Excellent
FUN FACT : Ava Gardner did NOT say "Melbourne was the perfect place to make a film about the end of the world"... the author of the piece in the Sydney Morning Herald that contained the quote, Neil Jillett, admitted that the quote was fabricated. He was writing a tongue-in-cheek piece about the filming at the time, and attributed the quote to Gardner in a friend of a friend way, and then his editor changed it to a direct quote from Gardner.
At 3:55 You say the submarine's name was the Swordfish when actually it was the Sawfish. Excellent video!!!!! Thanks.
BigD Yeah I screw up words in all my videos. There’s a list as long as my arm.
Watched it again. The adaptions of Waltzing Matilda are so evocative. Please do more. Deserted Streets again.
Where’s part 2. This is really good !
You needed a boat. Years ago you could access the pier but times change don't they.
McGill's newsagency was on Elizabeth st at 5:18 - was there till early 2000s
I'm old enough to remember all of this happening at the time. It was certainly a major event in Melbourne and as the video shows all of the scenes were well publicised in the media. Ava Gardner was reputed to have said "Melbourne was an appropriate place to film the end of the world", but this is generally thought to be apocryphal.
Aussie Cockatoo Thanks for clearing that up!
At 7:05 you were correct that the pub was around in 1959. As it was (as the Prince of Wales Hotel) in about 1871 in this glass plate photo that you can keep zooming in for ages with the mouse wheel : acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_Zoomify/2011/D13950/a2825122.html
My mother always talked about the excitement at Williamstown at the time of about half the town going down to the piers to see Gregory Peck in 1959.
Most of the piers had public access until into the 1960s.
Great coverage.
Thanks mate.
That movie was pretty dark for 1959!
You're not wrong!
Could be filmed in Melbourne today.....watching in lockdown
This was the single most important movie ever made... especially now.
You are not kidding.
@@Khayyam-vg9fw
I'm as serious as World War III. Biden is heading us directly into war with Russia. Hopefully he'll send Hunter to fight in it.
My dad was involved with the shooting of On the Beach and his only comment was reinforced by this youtube clip. He said Ava Gardner had the foulest mouth he'd ever heard on a woman. The experience turned him off Hollywood actors and actresses for life.
Thanks, interesting to hear about Ava. I met many actors when I worked for a casino. It is confronting when you met a star who behaves badly.
Nothing wrong with a woman who swears. Expecting a woman to be better behaved because she is a woman is sexist.
@@ChrisPage68 "The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there." You will be much happier when you stop JUDGING people!
@@ChrisPage68 I don't like fouled-mouth men any more than I like foul-mouthed women.
The newer version had more australians in it but too explicit
In the sex and sickness scenes
Bryan brown was the down to
Earth aussie ..
classic line when
Confronting towers for the first
Time!
Who the ####
are you
At 19:00 who is the man on the right with the microphone ... looks a little like Geoff Brooke ... a singer and later on became a judge on Kevin Dennis New Faces.
206 Domain rd. This is not the original building that was on the site during the making of the film. The original was owned by Sir Norman Brookes and his wife Dame Mabel Brookes. It was famous for the fact that Lt Lyndon B Johnson later a USA President stayed there as house guest for a time during WW11. It was a lovely house. Another loss to Melbourne
Thanks, really amazing job! But I have two question about the movie :)
1.Who is the man in the portrait hanging on the wall? I searched everywhere on internet and i have only a guess; Sir Joseph Cook.
2.why "SMOKING" was written on the trains? Sorry for my bad english, but i'm really curious about these questions.
I don't know the first question and the second probably is referring to the smoking section of the train. In those days you could smoke on a train.
@@PaulHagl thanks a lot :)
5:20 There's McGills Newsagency, good source for technical books and magazines.
The submarine used to represent USS Sawfish was a composite of several subs. Sawfish was fictional, the only Sawfish was a WW2 diesel submarine. Several records say the HMS Andrew, a Royal Navy submarine was used for the shooting in Melbourne, however I find this a bit odd. Why would a Royal Navy boat be used when we actually had quite good stand-ins of our own, the Oberon Class boats. The old freighter 'Time' was beached on the rocks at Point Nepean, and when Kramer saw it, he said it looked too much like a seaworthy ship coming out of the heads, and as there were not supposed to be any ships at sea, he wanted it removed. Consequently, the Army Engineers blew up the Time with explosives to reduce the wreck and scatter it.
As noted in the video, the Commonwealth building at the Show Grounds was used for several sets. After the shoot concluded, the submarine interior, which was very detailed, was open to the public during the Royal Melbourne Show. I went to see it that year. I was at school at the time, and one of my teachers, who was in amateur theatre, played one of the people queueing up for pills on the steps of the Library building.
Sir Norman and Dame Mabel Brooks did indeed live at the address shown, however that is not the original building, the original was quite small. The building shown occupies the original building's site on the corner, plus the allottment next door.
My parents had told me about the 'Time' being destroyed for the movie, but until reading your post, I couldn't find any reference to it. Admittedly, I thought it was further up the Bay. Your post pinpoints the location much better. It may be my search technique, but there doesn't seem to be much documentation about it. Thanks.
@@marksierra7920 The Time was wrecked on Corsair Rock at Point Nepean. Youi can pin-point the rock if you type "corsair rock" into Google Maps, it is marked quite accurately.
Great movie, so moving, much better then the 80s version
Strange little tinkers, these RUclips algae rhythms: jump the gun with misguided enthusiasm most of the time - and then once in a while, an obscure bullseye. Probably Aristotle's 'infinite monkeys' theory at play. (Don't quote me on that; I haven't bothered looking up the etymology, and clearly Aristotle never cited Shakespeare.)
Thoroughly enjoyed your guided tour, Paul. In fact I'll venture so bold you're among the most agreeable tour guides I've seen. Nary a whoop nor a holler throughout: I like that. Yet none of the stilted, sub-Dickensian gibberish prose I employ for RUclips comments (and which one might encounter in, say, a 'Jack the Ripper' guide). I also like that. A good bloke, if you will. I convey no lesser compliment than that I'm composing this comment while I should be rifling off an absence email to work. ATCHOO! Bless me. I suppose I should hurry it along.
I was always a prodigious film buff from childhood. That is to say, I liked films. Certain films, not all. I distinctly recall 'On the Beach' being among my favourites - although there's no way I could appreciate an ounce of the plot or subtext. An elusive ambience. I'd never thought to punt a search at locations (to be honest, OTB has been superseded in terms of charm by many other films) but that would stand to reason as part of the ambience. For all the damage inflicted by the pervasive testicles of purported progress, Melbourne district can still be commended for nuggets of natural beauty.
My enduring thumbnail reference for the film would be the walk up the cliff and Psycho kissing that beautiful woman on the seat. If I were to proffer any constructive criticism to Stanley Kramer it would be that he might have expanded on this theme and marketed it as - On the Seat.
Father emitted a coarse chuckle when the passing jolly swagman imparted, "Give her one for me, mate."
My late mother would have found that quite objectionable. (R.I.P.)
Touched to see a naval vessel named in honour of Steve Irwin, the loveable crocodile fiddler. (R.I.P.)
Thanks 🙏 I try to be myself. Very interesting comment.
@@PaulHagl - And thank you, mate.
I don't get it only 229 views at the time of writing this. Clearly needs a little promotion. It's a fun, interesting, romp round Melbourne & environs with the cause of discovery held high. It's also relevant for me as I'm currently re-writing On the Beach. In my version Melbourne is the first place to die out after a world wide plague slowly envelops the world. We follow the crew of the Williamstown Life Saves Club surf boat as row north in futile effort to escape inevitable doom.
I heard that Gardner was not impressed with Melbourne - when asked what she thought of it she said it was half the size of New York cemetery and twice as dead. (Apologies if you mentioned this in the video.)
lol , nice try , you made that up, it's nowhere online also FUN FACT : Ava Gardner did NOT say "Melbourne was the perfect place to make a film about the end of the world"... the author of the piece in the Sydney Morning Herald that contained the quote, Neil Jillett, admitted that the quote was fabricated. He was writing a tongue-in-cheek piece about the filming at the time, and attributed the quote to Gardner in a friend of a friend way, and then his editor changed it to a direct quote from Gardner.
Any plans to do Romper Stomper?
maybe
@@PaulHagl Let me know i can help you out with a few locations as some of the scenes were filmed near where i lived...
@@glengrbesa4234 I've found many of them but not the street where Jacqueline McKenzie is waiting for her father in front of the green house early in the film. The house is number 63 of some unknown street. Also the huge factory building where the two women are talking to the guy through the little hole in the door towards the end. Almost giving up on those two locations.
@@PaulHagl Right, i'll have to watch the film again to make sure which house but i definately know which street as i lived around the corner and walked past while they were filming.
Ugh I'm so annoyed to hear foreigners bought and demolished the property!! Shame on them!
That's globalized capitalism for you. For ordinary people it isn't pretty.
Why didn't you mention the Time Ball Tower in Williamstown? It's the most recognizable thing.
That’s harsh mate 😂 I was more focused on the film back then. If I did it nowadays I probably would have talked about it. I was too distraught over the pier being off limits.
@@PaulHagl Didn't mean to be "harsh". I love what you did. I also love Williamstown. Cheers.
12:04 : Greg would not need a stunt double for this.
My DAD Brian V Carroll A Well respected stock station Agent in Dandenong son of 2 mayors in the 70's and 80's purchased thee horse drawn vehicle a jinker black with red pin striping where Ava Gardner&Gregory Peck, Port sea Victoria I'm looking for the complete movie for the footage? he later drove the prime-minster Golf Whitlam in a procession in fern tree gully and drove all day 40 k pulling a shalom a x pacer with a bung eye injured it racing i have a phote to post T . Carroll...
From 4:43 and the Mazda lamps cat, this circa 1965 view of the cat with advertisement present in 4K and colour in a NFSA film may be of of interest :
ruclips.net/video/TC7D5T_m_-k/видео.html
Lots of the streets earlier in this film look very deserted in 1965 and like On the Beach scenes, but maybe just filmed early morning or Sunday morning especially back then.
What would happen if you filmed inside the Now Rondeau Hotel with a hidden camera 🎥 ?😮. Back in 1959 Melbourne was more that willing to publish every detail about the film. Now they could care less! If I had done this retro film I would have contacted the cities publicity dept. so they could help open doors to places I wanted to film.
They said they had a previous bad experience with a RUclipsr. I shouldn’t have mentioned RUclips at all. They only let me take photos because I asked to go in without the video camera. You’re right and I would have done that differently now. Still kicking myself.
'' On The Beach ''1959, the scariest movie of all time by its falling-of-the-guillotine-blade-finality.
No hyperbolic grand opera grandiloquence. Just the stark facts in b/w.
A colorized version would be sacrilege.
Tchernobyl and Fukushima have shown us that this is no fantasy.
Scarier than Threads? I don't think so.. But it's the sheer inevitability and its effects on people seemingly in Paradise that is most affecting about On The Beach.
What happened to Part 2 ??
There is.
See on the list as most viewed
What a woman was that Ava Gardner.
Note that the homeless in Melbourne are not Muslim or Chinese..
You think the women in the information place would have told you the pier is not accessible 🤦♀️
They did tell me there was no access. I thought it would be fun to act out my disappointment. Any chance to be a clown and I'm there.
Yes, the U.S. Navy wouldn't provide an Up To Date submarine for the filming. This movie and Ice Station Zebra using old diesel subs. Would have been so much better with a Skipjack Class.
Haha…loved all the cyclists in the movie added for hustle and bustle on Bourke street. Aussies have never embraced the bike like an Asian city.
Also, although the film doesn't insist on it, there is clearly petrol rationing in force.
@@neilsaunders9309 good point
Yo needed a drone
Don't forget Bill Hunter as an extra.....
Little known fact: Stanley Kubrik's "Dr. Strangelove" was actually the prequel to "On the Beach."
Nope. Neville Schute had nothing to do with the great political satire that was Dr Strangelove and Kubrick had nothing to do with this film either.
Ava Gardner described Melbourne as the ass end of the earth. I take it she was less than impressed with our fair city. Oh well, we were last to survive the Short War anyway.
Emma James The term Down under was actually an American term that meant the very same thing. Australians took it as an actual compliment lol not knowing what it actually meant.
Emma James She never Actually said it!
@@jessesands4099 Her big complaint was that the bars closed too early for her.
It's better than the remake
The black and white version
Gives the gloomy effect of
Nuclear holocaust
Also not so explicit in sex and
Sickness
The american stars gave it the
International appeal to sell it
So similar to now.
fred brant and a horse and buggy
What a coincidence. I was watching the 2000 remake this afternoon. I must say, I liked the remake much more.
Gregory Pecks house most likely demolished by the Chinese. Don't be surprised to find Gellibrand pier under a 99 year lease by the Chinese. Thanks to Labor's Daniel Andrews Isn't it so uplifting!!!!😂
This movie DOES matter now.
Cuz we r in jeopardy now.
Ask Putin.
FUN FACT : Ava Gardner did NOT say "Melbourne was the perfect place to make a film about the end of the world"... the author of the piece in the Sydney Morning Herald that contained the quote, Neil Jillett, admitted that the quote was fabricated. He was writing a tongue-in-cheek piece about the filming at the time, and attributed the quote to Gardner in a friend of a friend way, and then his editor changed it to a direct quote from Gardner.