In the 1959 version, a window was left open, allowing a roll-up windowshade to knock a coke bottle onto a telegraph key. By freak coincidence, the windowshade cord simultaneously caught on the key, creating a balance. Everytime the wind blew, the balance was upset, actuating the key.
this movie is epic and one of the best films of our era hands down. Acting, script, casting were perfect. If you like realistic movies like THE ROAD, you must see this film.
@William Wright - I've often wondered why they needed 400 people on that starship if they only had 7 that did everything except when they needed a redshirt to kill off. The movies spelled that out when it only took 6 of them to steal a starship and take off across the galaxy.
To be at least somewhat fair given the circumstances we might rationalise it as he's already well into his 40s while most of the crew are 20s early 30s. In pure utilitarian terms having him risk it makes more sense. At this point the main and only goal left is to preserve as many reproductive age persons as possible. Though I doubt the scriptwriter thought of this.
The ending isn't the actual meat of On The Beach. It is the whole arc of people doing their professional best to be effective and optimistic in the face of the challenge of fallout ...and it being too bloody late.
There was a Coca Cola bottle discovered to be sending the random Morse code in the book. No disrespect to either Pepsi or Royal Crown was intended. It was just a Coke bottle. For a more faithful book-to-movie rendition, watch the 1960s version with Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner. That version is, IMO, still the best portrayal of the book.
Excellent yet very sad. Movie. Very well paced and scripted not to mention acting as well as direction. If or when the end comes, by our own hands that is. This is how I imagine it. No happy endings no mutants NO SURVIVERS . Much better then the 1961 version
I've seen threads and is much more realistic. Whereas this is a modern take on a classic novel from the 50s I think. On the beach. Great novel too. Read it and seen the 1964 Gregory peck 'On The Beach.
@RedJoe10 One of the authors I thinks was Carl Sagan the famous cosmologist and author. Another book written about nuclear war and it aftermath i.e. nuclear winter, was Jonathan Sch-ell's book The Fate of the Earth. That book was written around the same time as Sagan's one was. Both are excellent reads on the subject and were hugely influential in the debate about the effects of nuclear war on life on earth.
Watching that woman on the seat, I had the feeling she was going to come to life at any minute, and start attacking them. Maybe I should stop watching films like Dawn of the Dead... ;)
One thing is bothering me: when they arrive to the carcass of the dead Australian reporter (the one who tried to send file via satellite), she seems to have taken some sort of pills. Now where the bloody hell she get those from!? Same thing with the apartment; were Americans also prepared to avoid the painful death in advance? Judging by the message she sent, the war broke out all the sudden, so nationwide distribution of said pills in advance wouldn't make any sense. I hope you get my point.
I think what happened was the war broke out but Anchorage itself wasn’t hit . The radiation likely took a few days to a week to impact them after the attack so the residents had some time to prepare for the end (be it limited). The Australian reporter jenny had probably made numerous trips back and forth to the studio to send a last message home in those final days before the fall out hit which is why they mentioned she had nowhere else to go. What is a bit of a mystery is if she had a solar battery with a Sat transmitter why others messages wouldn’t have got back home (or be transmitting and picked up by the sub)? Anyway - the US government or what was left of it by all accounts had these pills stockpiled in the event they were ever needed and broke them out for the residents of Anchorage to take to spare them the painful death that would soon come with the fall out. The family in the bed appears to have had some time to prepare. Others in the cities that were attacked appear to have had no time and died of radiation sickness if they weren’t killed by the blast. But then again Bobby mentioned his parents in San Francisco“ died peaceful” so who knows.
Fentatyl or other heavy synthetic opioids maybe vet med from elefant zoo. Even beyond nano-gramm enough for overdose. From this condition dosage dosent matter anymore.
@v19d once it started nobody would be sure who started it first. The book and the movie mentions that quite lot. Each side counter claims the other. As they say the truth is the first casualty of war.
A little more hope in that book with some islands supporting life in the southern oceans. They also find a Russian sub who finds them fuel (for food) and they find the nuclear winter moving south where there is no radiation fallout. They also launch their missiles at the start of the war under war orders. No other ship of its class or in the southern oceans seems to survive.
@agj9 I don't think so. ! rad is equal to 10 miligray or .01 rad. 150 rads is equal to 1.5 grey (Gy). the human body can take up to 5 grey (Gy) for a short period of time (about 10 to 30 hours) before death. With a suit they would be able to take quite a bit more then that.
Hmmm... she should be saying on the DVD "Don't despair. I've got something for you at last. The whales have survived"... the middle part of the message that the sub picked up is missing. Still a very harrowing scene...
AussieRoo1 This clip has been posted for years and it's been waaaay out of synch for years. Is it possible for you to fix it? (Thank you for posting it though.)
@georgel19841 Erm, no. Plenty of electronics are hardened against effects and EMP is a rather unreliable weapon, it will short out some stuff while leaving others of the same design alone. What I am wondering is why Anchorage looks rather intact for a prime nuclear target.
Yes, no pepsi or Royal Crown products discussed in the book or shown in either movie...I wonder if the producers had a licensing pact with the Coca Cola Company.
Just as they solve the mystery of the video message, sound synch went off, which means that video and sound no longer match. Leavng Part 12 for Part 13...
I've watched this several times, & I really think it's good, but I just realized something..how did the newscaster in Anchorage have "the pill" available when the attacks were apparently a surprise to her?? Just wondering!
She came there over and over again afterwards trying to get her last message for her family in Australia. And on her last time in there she finally took the pill.
Possibly the radiation took a week or more to reach Alaska from China and the pills were made underground facilities. I can guess they made it fast to have an ingredient to rat poison.
@anisete46 Yes the coke bottle got accidently hooked on the window shade cord when the wind blew it over durning a storm from the open window and fell over the Morse Code Key. When the wind blew through the window the bottle bobed up and down on the key at random times.
So. They wath a recording of the news, when reports came in about nuclear blasts. Shouldnt the broadcast have been interrupted followed by EAS message? Can't stop watching this. It freakes me out, even more than "The day after" and "Threads" did back in the days....
@GoldenBoughTrader - Every, and I mean EVERY World Leader should be made to watch Films like this, and those who are not touched by it should be removed from Office :-)
Ronald Reagan saw the film 'The Day After' back in the 80s and he recorded in his diary that it left him feeling thoroughly depressed. Hard to imagine that it didn't have an effect on policy going forward from there.
@ObssesedNuker "What I am wondering is why Anchorage looks rather intact for a prime nuclear target." Maybe it was not as good as Toulon, Athens and Murmansk this time.
What an idiot that captain Dwight Powers was for going into that house. If he hadn't of done that they wouldn't had to rush back to the submarine, which in the proceess caused the second officer with him to cut his leg thus contaminating himself.
Rumor says that Nevil Shute, the author was displeased with the original film. Looking back on the original version - and, it is just my opinion - (for the right-wingers, I have read the novel three times}, I believe that Mr. Shute's disappointment was with the emphasis on the romance and not the premise of the horror and stupidity of nuclear war - Dr. King said he had a dream. White America murdered him because it prefers the nightmare.
I mean, conflict between two superpowers is serious, granted, but one simply doesn't issue to one's own citizens some pills just in case a nuclear warhead drops nearby (and I'd like to know how all the existing bunkers and other precautions would've been useless, implicated by the fact the pills were issued to begin with!). It just doesn't make any sense! Or how messed up is the world they're living in... If anyone here got any reasonable, rational explanation I'd like to hear.. sorry, read it!
@@davidbrumbaugh7809 In theory having asexuals man the armed forces might be the best thing. Cut down on costs no more homesickness but there aren't enough asexuals around. Just the fact that everytime a servicemen dies his family receives benefits adds to the overall cost. But asexuals arere generally placed at about 1% and even fewer are able to serve and of these even fewer want to.
In the 1959 version, a window was left open, allowing a roll-up windowshade to knock a coke bottle onto a telegraph key. By freak coincidence, the windowshade cord simultaneously caught on the key, creating a balance. Everytime the wind blew, the balance was upset, actuating the key.
this movie is epic and one of the best films of our era hands down. Acting, script, casting were perfect. If you like realistic movies like THE ROAD, you must see this film.
You never find hundreds of dead in budget horror movies. All the actors have to get paid.
Wow, just like Star Trek, the Captain always leading the away team into potential danger instead of staying on the ship (boat).
@William Wright - I've often wondered why they needed 400 people on that starship if they only had 7 that did everything except when they needed a redshirt to kill off. The movies spelled that out when it only took 6 of them to steal a starship and take off across the galaxy.
To be at least somewhat fair given the circumstances we might rationalise it as he's already well into his 40s while most of the crew are 20s early 30s. In pure utilitarian terms having him risk it makes more sense. At this point the main and only goal left is to preserve as many reproductive age persons as possible. Though I doubt the scriptwriter thought of this.
@@tommissouri4871
Yeah, but EVERYTHING was full atomated, I mean, chimpanzee , and two traniies could run her......
Nevel Schut...a classic 😮
The girl - just stunning! Her face, the pose - all. You can have nightmares for a very long time after seeing this...
The ending isn't the actual meat of On The Beach. It is the whole arc of people doing their professional best to be effective and optimistic in the face of the challenge of fallout ...and it being too bloody late.
There was a Coca Cola bottle discovered to be sending the random Morse code in the book. No disrespect to either Pepsi or Royal Crown was intended. It was just a Coke bottle.
For a more faithful book-to-movie rendition, watch the 1960s version with Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner. That version is, IMO, still the best portrayal of the book.
I liked it better, too, except the ending was changed from the book.
This ending was better
Morse code was still in use in the 1950s even in telegrams
Some northwest Australian
Towns were still using it
Into the 1960s!
Poor lady!What a horrible death!Alone in a foreign country...
Excellent yet very sad. Movie. Very well paced and scripted not to mention acting as well as direction. If or when the end comes, by our own hands that is. This is how I imagine it. No happy endings no mutants NO SURVIVERS . Much better then the 1961 version
Good Luck with your studies. I'm a EE too... I graduated in the late 80's.
There is a much better, much more realistic film about this called 'Threads'. But beware, its not for the weak of heart.
And "Testament", 1983, Jane Alexander and William Devane- Really tough in a low key way.
I've seen threads and is much more realistic. Whereas this is a modern take on a classic novel from the 50s I think. On the beach. Great novel too. Read it and seen the 1964 Gregory peck 'On The Beach.
@@petealtomare3913 I made the mistake of watching this movie after I had children…heartbreaking 😩
Putin..Prigodgyn.. too late now ..
@RedJoe10 One of the authors I thinks was Carl Sagan the famous cosmologist and author. Another book written about nuclear war and it aftermath i.e. nuclear winter, was Jonathan Sch-ell's book The Fate of the Earth. That book was written around the same time as Sagan's one was. Both are excellent reads on the subject and were hugely influential in the debate about the effects of nuclear war on life on earth.
if its 150 rad, those suits wouldnt stop nothing, they would be dead by the time they got to shore.
It's sealed with lead contain rubber. It's give some time but not much.
They are not even radiation suits or hazardous material suits. It's some variant of fire fighters suit.
Watching that woman on the seat, I had the feeling she was going to come to life at any minute, and start attacking them. Maybe I should stop watching films like Dawn of the Dead... ;)
Lol
what a nightmare
One thing is bothering me: when they arrive to the carcass of the dead Australian reporter (the one who tried to send file via satellite), she seems to have taken some sort of pills. Now where the bloody hell she get those from!? Same thing with the apartment; were Americans also prepared to avoid the painful death in advance? Judging by the message she sent, the war broke out all the sudden, so nationwide distribution of said pills in advance wouldn't make any sense. I hope you get my point.
I think what happened was the war broke out but Anchorage itself wasn’t hit . The radiation likely took a few days to a week to impact them after the attack so the residents had some time to prepare for the end (be it limited). The Australian reporter jenny had probably made numerous trips back and forth to the studio to send a last message home in those final days before the fall out hit which is why they mentioned she had nowhere else to go. What is a bit of a mystery is if she had a solar battery with a Sat transmitter why others messages wouldn’t have got back home (or be transmitting and picked up by the sub)?
Anyway - the US government or what was left of it by all accounts had these pills stockpiled in the event they were ever needed and broke them out for the residents of Anchorage to take to spare them the painful death that would soon come with the fall out. The family in the bed appears to have had some time to prepare. Others in the cities that were attacked appear to have had no time and died of radiation sickness if they weren’t killed by the blast.
But then again Bobby mentioned his parents in San Francisco“ died peaceful” so who knows.
Fentatyl or other heavy synthetic opioids maybe vet med from elefant zoo.
Even beyond nano-gramm enough for overdose.
From this condition dosage dosent matter anymore.
Just out of curiousisty, is that a hard limit of physics or is that the current state of the art?
@v19d once it started nobody would be sure who started it first. The book and the movie mentions that quite lot. Each side counter claims the other. As they say the truth is the first casualty of war.
@Professor6871 Certainly rings a bell. The book itself was amazing like a reference book you could go back too.
a book which is very similar to this is called "The Last Ship" by william brinkley. Its basically a USN destroyer in the same situation.
A little more hope in that book with some islands supporting life in the southern oceans. They also find a Russian sub who finds them fuel (for food) and they find the nuclear winter moving south where there is no radiation fallout. They also launch their missiles at the start of the war under war orders. No other ship of its class or in the southern oceans seems to survive.
@wardenphil It was in a book published by a group of scientists called 'Nuclear War: The Aftermath'. I think it was released in the early 1980s.
The movie that freaked me out the most because it can actually happen.
I think because just enough heads of state, kings, presidents, etc have had just enough sense to not ‘do it’.
@agj9 I don't think so. ! rad is equal to 10 miligray or .01 rad. 150 rads is equal to 1.5 grey (Gy). the human body can take up to 5 grey (Gy) for a short period of time (about 10 to 30 hours) before death. With a suit they would be able to take quite a bit more then that.
Certainly not now, but maybe in the future as power consumption decreases. There is precedent - compare the calculators 30 years ago with those today.
a little more accurate than the first movie
Not really.
Hmmm... she should be saying on the DVD "Don't despair. I've got something for you at last. The whales have survived"... the middle part of the message that the sub picked up is missing. Still a very harrowing scene...
Waltzing Matilda
AussieRoo1 This clip has been posted for years and it's been waaaay out of synch for years. Is it possible for you to fix it? (Thank you for posting it though.)
@georgel19841 Erm, no. Plenty of electronics are hardened against effects and EMP is a rather unreliable weapon, it will short out some stuff while leaving others of the same design alone.
What I am wondering is why Anchorage looks rather intact for a prime nuclear target.
is it just me, or is the sound waaaay out of sync at the end of the vid?
LutzDerLurch yeah, I noticed that too...
It's the radiation.
@@spodge1233 xD
@Professor6871 I got my one in a second hand shop in Cambridge.
How does a body freeze in a sitting position, after having taken poison?
There would be bodies everywhere and animals feeding off of them.
Smell would be horrible.
@ObssesedNuker good point
The captain should have stayed on
Board as in the novel
@GoldenBoughTrader Because its been made for adult not 10 years, where as most of the run of the mill Hollywood movies are made just for that market.
06:09 This movie came out 1959. Insert tape / DVD / CD....
@RedJoe10 Where did you here this?
@GoldenBoughTrader - Yep, it makes a hell of an emotional impact.
@RedJoe10 I have a copy of it I bought in second hand book shop in London.
Yes, no pepsi or Royal Crown products discussed in the book or shown in either movie...I wonder if the producers had a licensing pact with the Coca Cola Company.
that family got pwned
@v19d Instead a revolver if you can find one.
Just as they solve the mystery of the video message, sound synch went off, which means that video and sound no longer match. Leavng Part 12 for Part 13...
I've watched this several times, & I really think it's good, but I just realized something..how did the newscaster in Anchorage have "the pill" available when the attacks were apparently a surprise to her?? Just wondering!
She came there over and over again afterwards trying to get her last message for her family in Australia. And on her last time in there she finally took the pill.
Possibly the radiation took a week or more to reach Alaska from China and the pills were made underground facilities. I can guess they made it fast to have an ingredient to rat poison.
Likely officials saw the writing on the wall and offered them as the last solution. It beats completely abandoning your residents.
@@v19d RAT POISON!? YOUR DUDE DON'T KNOW WHAT CHOOSE TO MAKE LAST TRIP!!
METH OPIOID MIX "KINGS LAST".
The picture and sound go out of sinc half way through part 12.
i like threads but it is more realistic by far
@anisete46 Yes the coke bottle got accidently hooked on the window shade cord when the wind blew it over durning a storm from the open window and fell over the Morse Code Key. When the wind blew through the window the bottle bobed up and down on the key at random times.
@musicalglenn We have had the ability for over 65 years and haven't done it yet, have a bit more faith ;)
So. They wath a recording of the news, when reports came in about nuclear blasts. Shouldnt the broadcast have been interrupted followed by EAS message?
Can't stop watching this. It freakes me out, even more than "The day after" and "Threads" did back in the days....
At 10:24, who would put a glass window in a bedroom door? This makes no sense to me.
@GoldenBoughTrader - Every, and I mean EVERY World Leader should be made to watch Films like this, and those who are not touched by it should be removed from Office :-)
Ronald Reagan saw the film 'The Day After' back in the 80s and he recorded in his diary that it left him feeling thoroughly depressed. Hard to imagine that it didn't have an effect on policy going forward from there.
Standing up in the launch????
I thought they might find Sarah Palin gazing at Russia from here back porch. Too bad.
@RedJoe10 we must not allow a GDP gap with the reds!... and australia
@ObssesedNuker "What I am wondering is why Anchorage looks rather intact for a prime nuclear target."
Maybe it was not as good as Toulon, Athens and Murmansk this time.
12 parts until it gets to the core of the Plot ?
And they fail to take the whole laptop - which would be useful working technology, once cleaned up...
What an idiot that captain Dwight Powers was for going into that house. If he hadn't of done that they wouldn't had to rush back to the submarine, which in the proceess caused the second officer with him to cut his leg thus contaminating himself.
At part eleven, at 2:10, , did anyone notice the sharks above the submarine?
+William Dean i did 2 of them
Looked like orcas to me
@geoffck6969 At least that way she could flip them off.
The laptop battery should be depleted long time ago.
I say it takes under a week for a fallout to reach alaska
The Stanley Kramer film was better; although the ending wasn't true to the book.
Rumor says that Nevil Shute, the author was displeased with the original film. Looking back on the original version - and, it is just my opinion - (for the right-wingers, I have read the novel three times}, I believe that Mr. Shute's disappointment was with the emphasis on the romance and not the premise of the horror and stupidity of nuclear war - Dr. King said he had a dream. White America murdered him because it prefers the nightmare.
You're full of shit!
That kid has teeth larger than a rabbit.
any electronics should not work becase of the bombs
I don't get it. Did the journalist commit suicide? Was that a gov't-issued suicide kit she used? How'd she get one of those?
I agree!
That's wasn't from goverment stockpiles.
It's maybe improvised mix.
I mean, conflict between two superpowers is serious, granted, but one simply doesn't issue to one's own citizens some pills just in case a nuclear warhead drops nearby (and I'd like to know how all the existing bunkers and other precautions would've been useless, implicated by the fact the pills were issued to begin with!). It just doesn't make any sense! Or how messed up is the world they're living in...
If anyone here got any reasonable, rational explanation I'd like to hear.. sorry, read it!
Away from their families is not right
For married men
All navy vessels should be crewed by single people
Maybe warriors should all be eunichs.
@@davidbrumbaugh7809 In theory having asexuals man the armed forces might be the best thing. Cut down on costs no more homesickness but there aren't enough asexuals around. Just the fact that everytime a servicemen dies his family receives benefits adds to the overall cost. But asexuals arere generally placed at about 1% and even fewer are able to serve and of these even fewer want to.
Audio is out of sync
The script is rubbish - no professional naval officer would talk like that.