First saw this film when I was 11 it terrified me the magnitude of the all to possible haunted my generation all our lives. At almost 80 watching it again it still has the capacity to move me to tears. The deserted streets the banner There is still time,,the futility of everything has never been so powerfully portrayed.. Forcing me to ponder the world we leave to our grandchildren.
Just returned from Australia, and the movie was with me throughout the trip. Impactful stuff that I first saw in college. It never left me. I get choked up every time I see the skipper on the sail for the final time, national ensign flying bravely in the wind and the ever-haunting symphonic rendition of Waltzing Matilda in the background. Greg Peck was a wonderful actor and an even better human being. We won't see his like again soon.
I remember seeing this on tv years ago. This was at the time of the Cold War and I was a very frightened very young teen. It was one of those movies you never forget.
One of the saddest movies I've ever seen. Shed tears at its end. Saw it when I was very young-- to this day when I hear Waltzing Matilda, without the words, I tear up. My daughter lives in Australia now--- what a great country it is!
The deserted city hall with the banner (and the statue of the soldier in the foreground) says it all -- "THERE IS STILL TIME...BROTHER." That final scene is one of the most powerful in film history.
Dated, ... as it is set back in 1964 .... yet not dated, since it is still a possibility. A stellar cast, super acting, haunting music, brooding photographic technique, this film is a classic, at once spine-chilling and heart-wrenching. Anybody who loves great cinema should be sure to to see it.
I'd never call it dated. Dated means one has to understand out-of-date attitudes in the movie in order to appreciate it. I see nothing dated here. You're right: it really is very very great cinema.
I saw this movie just the other day, from my Dad's dvd collection. It just really blew me away--the emotion, the music, the story and everything about it. I'm a guy 18 and I find myself really liking these movies of the 1950's and 1960's. Is this weird of me or something? I think my friends would laugh at me for saying I like movies like this. Awhile back I saw "East of Eden" with James Dean in it and I watched it twice back-to-back it impressed me so much.
I'm a guy 70 and, as a relentless collector of movies of all kinds beginning in the 20th century, I can tell you: all artforms have a life-and-death cycle, and Cinema is one of them. A friend invited me to see a new movie called 'Argyle', and I sat through it.Sadly I came away realizing the Cinema we all loved is slipping slowly away, in favor of computer generated techno-garbage.
would never of chosen this film to watch, i was forced one night at work and i now cannot get it out of my head with current situation in the world. superb movie
I've been thinking of this movie as the coronavirus pandemic unfolds. I realize this is different from the fear of nuclear war, but seeing the deserted streets of Melbourne makes me think of how quiet our cities are at present as we deal with this pandemic.
Very few people are aware that a German Scientist (Eckard Wimmer, and colleagues) synthesized the Polio virus (in 2002) completely from scratch, using building blocks which can be acquired on-line. Apropos... amhistory.si.edu/polio/virusvaccine/pgenome.htm That was in 2002. The science of genetic engineering has advanced massively since then -- certainly in China. Anyone who considers the sequence of events that led up to the current global mayhem, can easily see their rationale. They are now sending out delegations of 'experts' to assist every nation on their global domination hit-list in fighting their customized virus. Although he's right not to raise the issue, I hope Trump (and military advisers) realize that the Coronavirus was not released by accident, as the Chicoms assume everyone believes. Lets face it, nuclear weapons are a very messy and impossible to control 'defense of last resort', and impossible to use without detection. A biological attack can be initiated without any way to prove it was deliberate. Coronavirus is far less toxic than the 1918 flu -- which killed many victims within 24-hours, ultimately numbering 50-million, possibly including Woodrow Wilson. Look at the damage it has done so far? Consider how successfully it has advanced China's Belt & Road economic assault on the Free Word? I doubt even Nevil Shute could have imagined the reality we are living in today, or what it portends.
What touched me then, in the sixties, was when the song suddenly changed from a pub-song to an opera-singer performance. That changed the romantic scene totally. Beautiful!
the scene when Gregory Peck looks up at the sky for the last time and the sunlight shines on him.. well, that's something priceless, one of the greatest scenes in film history. I am grateful for it
This is the saddest most melancholy scene in a movie I have ever seen- still makes me cry- !!!!! They will never see each other again in this life - getting too close to home now !
To be picky, they all look a bit too chipper, by that stage they were all suffering from radiation sickness and running at both ends. I suppose that might have spoiled the moment, though.
Thank you for your service, gentlemen. As ironic as it may seem, Nuclear Assured Destruction has so far, preserved the human race. I think in large part, due to novels such as Neville Shute's 1957 masterpiece 'On the Beach'. An ever present reminder of what we stood to lose, should the un-thinkable happen. I read Shute's novel in 1967 while in Junior High and it has left a haunting impression on me till this day. It was years later that I learned the novel had been made into the 1959 film. As good as the film adaptation is...the novel is better. Though I have had a copy of 'On the Beach' for many decades now, I have never again been able to finish the last few chapters.
1 saw the movie in 1960. I was 13 years old. It had a lasting impact on me even today. Thanks for your service mates.I Served on the USS Barney ddg 6 1967-71.
@@andyhoward7734 Me too. There is so much hopelessness around today, a far cry from the optimism of my childhood. But we must keep faith and hope alive. I believe that God will not allow humanity to destroy itself, as Jesus Himself stated regarding a future event called The Great Tribulation, ““For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will. Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.” (Mat 24:21-22, NASB) It will be a close call, but humanity will survive. God Himself will intervene to save humanity and pull it from the brink of extinction.
On The Beach is one of the most moving and foreboding movies in cimema history. Characters are brilliantly played. The subject matter is more poignant today than ever before. We need to think before we act, or we are all doomed.
If you google the film "On the Beach" there's an interesting back-story surrounding the selection of WM as the musical center of the film. Ernest Gold really wanted to do an original score, but the director insisted that he use it (some would say too much). It's really the only orchestral version I know of, and beautifully rendered by Gold. The ending of this film is one of the most poingniant I know of, due mostly to the beautiful scoring of this great ballad.
@Aussie Cockatoo You got that right. With all due respect to Aussie culture [which I love], the worst one was the "choir of drunks" on the fishing trip. If the director felt he had to include a drunken version, I would have preferred "We All Shagged Matilda". But then, I don't know if those lyrics were around in 1959 !;)
Similar to Casablanca. Max Steiner hated "As Time Goes By" and kept insisting he could write a much better love song. Nope Max, we're going with "As Time Goes By". So Steiner saturated his score with themes from the song and the result was pretty darn close to perfection.
One of the most frightening movies at the time. It was all too real for us in 1959. It's rare when a film, a story, can grip the conscience of humanity like this film did. More than "Fail Safe" or "Dr. Strangelove", this movie caused people to think about the unnecessary cost of nuclear war.
Just for the record, I need to remind people that this is not the actual ending of the film in the movie. The person who posted this clip removed the depressing 'infanticide scene' in order to allow viewers to experience the dramatic denouement of the 'Dwight & Moira' story without interruption, leading to the finale shot of the deserted 'town square' in Melbourne. (IMHO, this ending is far better than the one in the film.)
Absolutely , I’m crying right now watching this . Ava Gardner was so beautiful , Gregory peck was an amazing actor. At least in the remake the 2 main actors get together. Wow what a movie . Feels like that today sometimes With the pandemic.❤️😔🙏
Couldn't agree more. I watched a documentary on Gregory Peck a few nights ago, a really remarkable human being. And this has got to be one of if not the best screen performances by Fred Astaire in a purely dramatic role. I struggled with the scene selection for several days. I really wanted to include the wonderful scene with Admiral Bridie and 'Hosgood' having their 'last spot of tea' together, but it made the clip a bit too long. And, I felt a little hesitant cutting out the scene with Tony Perkins and Donna Anderson, but it derailed the musical drama of the score. With all due respect to the director, I suspect this ending would have been better for the film. I think this clip gives us Waltzing Matilda in it's most heartbreakingly beautiful form. Thanks for your post.
Since this clip is about the music, I left out the final scene with Tony Perkins persuading "Mary" (Donna Anderson) to "drink the tea". (It follows the Peck/Gardner romantic farewell at the dock in the film.) IMHO, that scene interrupts the flow of the ending in a very uncomfortable way, and I wonder if Stanley Kramer ever considered cutting it. Best moment for me is when Gregory Peck takes a last look at the sky before closing the hatch and the boat submerges. A great film any way you cut it.
Scared the hell outa me when I was 5, never forgot it and his long last look at the sky he will never see again, and the song what a movie and what a prophetic tale we may yet come to this
Yep totally that song waltzing Matilda and the men going home to die and Ava knowing she too will soon perish too much , too much. I watched that film in 1966 I was 14 nuclear war was a real threat then
I keep coming back and getting the same choking up myself, every time. It's been quite a few (!) years since I watched the whole movie and I'm not sure now that I could handle that now. You get older, your priorities change.
I felt so awful for the young married couple. They knew happiness and joy for such a short time. I can relate. I lost my eternal true love (My Barbra Rose) to cancer after only two years of marriage. I'm sure others can relate, as well. May Christ keep us all.
@@loppux a wicked and evil troll. The comment deserved sympathy but SOMEONE had to show not just their inability to sympathize, but their need to attack. Pathetic.
Good points. Since the purpose of my remix was to focus on the music, I excluded the Peter and Mary scene. I think that scene was perhaps a little overwrought. The "Admiral and Osgood" scene accomplished more or less the same purpose, as well the "Fred Astaire Garage" scene. But the best of all (IMHO) was the Door Man at the private club playing a final round of pool at a table off limits to him for most of his life. A bit long, but all in all, a gem of a film.
When I was a kid, I watched this movie from beginning to end........and it left me with nightmares for nearly a week! The very end with Melbourne a ghost city seemed scary, the most poignant scene was a lonely tram on a totally deserted street. Then the blast of music, the empty park......then black. This movie sends a clear message to me that even today, with North Korea, Al Quaeda & others with an all destroying mindset can still destroy us. And it's up to all of us to let the nations know th
It’s very good that you are afraid of and hate representatives of Western civilization during this time we have matured and acquired more powerful weapons as an example of Borey, but my enemies are our motto for our strategic missile forces AFTER US SILENCE A book on which two films were shot, one in 1959 and the second in 2000 good and wonderful films
This movie was incredibly amazing & so sad & scary . I always tell my friends & family , if I was an actor and had to cry on cue & had an ear piece in my ear & this song went on I would absolutely cry big time .I cried just now watching the ending OMG❤️😔🙏🙏🙏
I wish I didn't have that knowledge. That is one experience the human life can profitably be without for all time. I used to realize I had a life without loss until the big one, the one I cared about more than anybody in my life. My instinct was completely right: it was a thousand blessings not to know that final goodbye. No kind God would allow that goodbye.
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@omnia resipsaloquitor Of course I'm not alone. Everyone who has lost anyone they couldn't live without knows what it's like. Awful without end.
This movie, certainly, still has relevancy today. Maybe, even more so. I miss Ava, for she was my sweetheart for many years. Each evening when I sit by the ocean, my thoughts return to past good movies. Slowly, the actor's images are not so clear and in focus, but. Ava is always there, as beautiful as ever.
I saw this movie when I was eight years old, until that time I was so blissfully unaware that mankind had the weapons to totally destroy the world. This film crushed me, and a large piece of innocence died for ever with this closing scene.
+oz1902 - People have forgotten what a dangerous time that was, and still is, as long as the superpowers have stockpiles of nukes. The threat of ISIS or North Korea is nothing compared to the hundreds of bullseyes in the cold war times.
But ISIS or North Korea could be the flashpoint for a thermonuclear war between the U.S. and Russia. How did the "war" in On The Beach begin? Nuclear proliferation. What's going on today? Exactly THAT! While it's certain that mankind will not perish in WW III, there's a good chance that Western Civilzation will. Tens or hundreds of millions dead is hardly a sign that things have improved since 1959.
Although it is so very depressing, I loved this movie. still good after 60 years...If you know anything about Waltzing Matilda and it's connection with the Marines, especially those at Guadalcanal, of which my dad was one...every time it plays it is emotional.
That was Capt. Towers' final look at the sun except maybe through a periscope. They can never surface again. In the book, they simply take the boat out past the limit of Australian territorial waters and scuttle, likely by diving below crush depth.
@@wilsonbelle6600 The book explains that it was cobalt-laced weapons that were used in the War, and that nuclear proliferation had gotten so out of control in the years leading up to it that even countries like Egypt and Turkey had arsenals and it was from one of them that the War began. Cobalt bombs used by the thousand-fold would produce the kind of long-term world-killing fallout that is the premise of the novel and movie. Those were being seriously discussed at the time but fortunately in our world, although there was never any formal agreement, nobody was actually stupid enough to go ahead and build the damn things.
I saw this amazing movie when I was 14 years old. To this day it ranks as one of the most emotional movies I have ever seen,. When Ava Gardner tells Gregory Peck , "it's been everything", it tears my heart out. As she stands on the beach watching him leave, you can feel the emptiness and loss she experiences. Heartbreaking.
Thanks for the post. More people need to see this film. It's perhaps more compelling today than it was in 1959. (Caveat, today, we may have already run past the tipping point...)
This is a wonderful film that had a powerful effect on me. I really enjoyed the film, even though it get depressing towards the end. It is really worth watching.
"...depressing towards the end"???!!! The whole damned story is depressing but that aside, you were right to be moved by it. Wonderful acting and a powerful, still resonant ending.
I used to think that the ending of Spartacus was the saddest of all time but I was wrong, it's definitely this. At least in Spartacus there was hope whereas in this there is none. Just a Captain and his love forgoing their last fleeting moments of happiness in a doomed world due to loyalty to his men.
I cant remember anyone bringing up this point before, even though I've always felt it was one of the most powerful elements of the story told by this film. Thanks for putting it on the thread.
Yes, when I first read the book I found it profoundly upsetting. This scene is right up there with the end of 'A Night To Remember' when the passengers on the Titanic sing 'Nearer My God To Thee'.
Ava, beautiful Ava. You put every fabric of your being into your performances. If by some miracle I was facing you at close range, my knees would buckle then everything would go black.
Tears still to my eyes when seeing this movie. What emotions will be felt if the world faces a real annihilation. Will the Good Lord come? Too profound to think about.
Waltzing Matilda was one of my mom’s favorite songs. But after seeing this film (back when it was originally released), she couldn’t bear to hear it anymore. Especially after the Cuban missile crisis almost ended it for everyone.
A wonderful motion picture. Wonderful renditions/arrangements of Waltzing Matilda. This story was presented in a serious, realistic manner by a terrific cast. And Ava Gardner was the most incredible woman, the most beautiful animal in the world. This film was a fine achievement.
oh this is a wonderful movie. It begins with Peck looking into the periscope and you see everything in the man's face: concern, responsibility, details, tiredness. I like the scene where Greg takes Ava to a fishing camp. There are a bunch of drunks singing, guess what song, and sounding like a bunch of drunks. But when Peck and Gardner get serious, the harmony tightens and gosh do they sound great. Wonderful scene.
I was in second??? grade when the film came out. I remember the music teacher wheeling the piano into our classroom and teaching us all to sing Waltzing Matilda. The song has never left me.
I've seen quite a few of these movies and they are depressing and bleak. We've gone back to the dystopian, nihilistic genre movies of the 1970s, which are now a reflection of a generation that feels lost, hopeless and sees no future.
Thanks, I read the book when I was 14yr, didn't know how good it was. It was so pessimistic! Like today in many different ways. But, life hopefully will go on. And people will feel and still love~
I love this movie even though it is so depressing. I know people have said it's silly (for instance, the idea of moving up the fishing season with the end of the world coming). I love the book too and to me, Nevil Shute showed that his characters retained their infrastructure instead of descending into chaos and anarchy (a la World War Z, for example) because until it truly was hopeless, they retained their hopes that everything would turn out all right. I think that is what makes it so sad.
What would be silly moving up the fishing season if you knew the world's was coming to an end? Neville Shutte was Conservative by nature and so the thought of anarchy in any form whatsoever, even as exceptional as the end of world would be, would of appalled him.
@@Professor6871 in the film, it takes the end of the world to remind people of how we should live anyway: there is no hope, no tomorrow, no rescue, no God, there are no chosen people, there’s just us, alone in the universe, in the here and now. It’s a sobering reality, but it’s one that reminds us that our world and everything in it is precious but vulnerable, and that the only thing that matters is that we look after it and each other.
@@markofsaltburn This sounds like everything is useless, all struggle is useless and we face a hopeless future! I still have hope and believe life has a purpose.
In the book, the sub crew doesn't go back to America, but chooses to sink the sub with all hands on board. In a way, I like the movie version better, as they go back to America to accept their inevitable fate.
@@markofsaltburn THAT IS WHERE YOU'RE WRONG!!! THERE IS A GOD!!! GOD IS ALWAYS HERE FOR ALL OF US!! HE IS TAKING CARE OF US AND WATCHING OVER THOSE WHO BELIEVE! THE FACT THAT YOU DON;T MEANS YOU WILL BE IN FOR A RUDE AWAKENING SOMEDAY...AND BY THEN IT WILL BE TOO LATE! DON;'T GET ALL JOHN LENNON ON US, HE WAS WRONG!!
Such a great film, fantastic storyline. Waltzing matilda playing in the background. The scene where the dwight looks at the sun in the Mornington peninsula(not to far from where harold holt drowned) they tried to make another but will never be as good as the original.
Almost thirty years later, we saw the true horrors of what happens when nuclear energy is mishandled. There are videos of the city of Pripyat following the Chernobyl disaster and evacuation, and it's eerie seeing the undamaged buildings from 1986 and the condition the city is in now (which is what Melbourne would probably look like thirty years after this movie takes place). This film, and the city of Pripyat in real life, are reminders of nuclear power gone horribly wrong.
We were in Germany during Chernobyl. When my wife called her mother in LA to let her know we were okay, she wanted us to leave. I reminded her mother of the several hundred nuclear weapons tests in the United States, spreading radioactive fallout nationwide. We were probably safer there than here. The United States has already had a nuclear war, by our own government.
COSMOTOPPER777: I agree. That last look skywards by Gregory Peck is quite the most heartbreaking scene I have ever seen (Ava Gardner looking out from the cliff is great too)! Thank you for the clip!
His last look at the sun bookends his arrival in Australia. He makes the same gesture as he leaves the conning tower. A special actor given exceptional direction. One of my favorite, see-it-again films of all time. And, at 81, that encompasses of lot of cinema.
Stanley Kramer has 3 great movies. On theBeach. Judgment at Nuremberg. It's a Mad Mad World. The Scene with Ava and Greg is unsurpassable ! Waltzing' Matilda
I remember my older sister told me that this movie made her cry. I was 14 at the time and it made me very sad to her this as she was 13 years older than me and I felt she knew more than me and I cried too!
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The most haunting and memorable movie scene I have ever witnessed. Played to perfection by Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner. A true masterpiece.
I agree, Lawrence of Seattle,USA
couldn't agree with you more
First saw this film when I was 11 it terrified me the magnitude of the all to possible haunted my generation all our lives. At almost 80 watching it again it still has the capacity to move me to tears. The deserted streets the banner There is still time,,the futility of everything has never been so powerfully portrayed..
Forcing me to ponder the world we leave to our grandchildren.
Just returned from Australia, and the movie was with me throughout the trip. Impactful stuff that I first saw in college. It never left me. I get choked up every time I see the skipper on the sail for the final time, national ensign flying bravely in the wind and the ever-haunting symphonic rendition of Waltzing Matilda in the background. Greg Peck was a wonderful actor and an even better human being. We won't see his like again soon.
"We won't see his like..."... EVER
Great movie
I remember seeing this on tv years ago. This was at the time of the Cold War and I was a very frightened very young teen. It was one of those movies you never forget.
Nice avatar. Uncanny.
One of the saddest movies I've ever seen. Shed tears at its end. Saw it when I was very young-- to this day when I hear Waltzing Matilda, without the words, I tear up. My daughter lives in Australia now--- what a great country it is!
The book is even sadder, great actors, fantastic story.
Australia is a mere shadow of its once greatness. I HAD always wanted to see the place before it went crazy woke.
Stanley Kramer did such a fantastic job adapting this great book into a movie. Just fantastic. And very chilling..
The deserted city hall with the banner (and the statue of the soldier in the foreground) says it all -- "THERE IS STILL TIME...BROTHER." That final scene is one of the most powerful in film history.
Walt ,
Yes it was , the end of civilization ❤️😔🙏omg
I agree because it was also a warning--and a plea--for the world to think and step back from the brink.Ecen today, there is time...
Obviously you never saw Pee Wee's Big Adventure! Action packed!
@@456swagger Totally. haha
Yes Had the sign read.. "There's Still Timex" It wouldn't have had the same effect.
Dated, ... as it is set back in 1964 .... yet not dated, since it is still a possibility. A stellar cast, super acting, haunting music, brooding photographic technique, this film is a classic, at once spine-chilling and heart-wrenching. Anybody who loves great cinema should be sure to to see it.
It really is a timeless film. I gets chills every time I see that final scene.
I'd never call it dated. Dated means one has to understand out-of-date attitudes in the movie in order to appreciate it. I see nothing dated here. You're right: it really is very very great cinema.
I saw this movie just the other day, from my Dad's dvd collection. It just really blew me away--the emotion, the music, the story and everything about it. I'm a guy 18 and I find myself really liking these movies of the 1950's and 1960's. Is this weird of me or something? I think my friends would laugh at me for saying I like movies like this. Awhile back I saw "East of Eden" with James Dean in it and I watched it twice back-to-back it impressed me so much.
Not at all! You have great taste !
B&W films by great directors were a real work of art.
The lighting in B&W is often breathtaking, but it's difficult to notice in color because the color is distracting.
I'm a guy 70 and, as a relentless collector of movies of all kinds beginning in the 20th century, I can tell you: all artforms have a life-and-death cycle, and Cinema is one of them. A friend invited me to see a new movie called 'Argyle', and I sat through it.Sadly I came away realizing the Cinema we all loved is slipping slowly away, in favor of computer generated techno-garbage.
would never of chosen this film to watch, i was forced one night at work and i now cannot get it out of my head with current situation in the world. superb movie
I've been thinking of this movie as the coronavirus pandemic unfolds. I realize this is different from the fear of nuclear war, but seeing the deserted streets of Melbourne makes me think of how quiet our cities are at present as we deal with this pandemic.
Very few people are aware that a German Scientist (Eckard Wimmer, and colleagues) synthesized the Polio virus (in 2002) completely from scratch, using building blocks which can be acquired on-line. Apropos...
amhistory.si.edu/polio/virusvaccine/pgenome.htm
That was in 2002. The science of genetic engineering has advanced massively since then -- certainly in China. Anyone who considers the sequence of events that led up to the current global mayhem, can easily see their rationale. They are now sending out delegations of 'experts' to assist every nation on their global domination hit-list in fighting their customized virus.
Although he's right not to raise the issue, I hope Trump (and military advisers) realize that the Coronavirus was not released by accident, as the Chicoms assume everyone believes. Lets face it, nuclear weapons are a very messy and impossible to control 'defense of last resort', and impossible to use without detection. A biological attack can be initiated without any way to prove it was deliberate. Coronavirus is far less toxic than the 1918 flu -- which killed many victims within 24-hours, ultimately numbering 50-million, possibly including Woodrow Wilson. Look at the damage it has done so far? Consider how successfully it has advanced China's Belt & Road economic assault on the Free Word?
I doubt even Nevil Shute could have imagined the reality we are living in today, or what it portends.
Yup, me too.
@@MultiSkyman1 Me too my friends.
Me too. I remember Melbourne in 1959😥
agree.
What touched me then, in the sixties, was when the song suddenly changed from a pub-song to an opera-singer performance. That changed the romantic scene totally. Beautiful!
the scene when Gregory Peck looks up at the sky for the last time and the sunlight shines on him.. well, that's something priceless, one of the greatest scenes in film history. I am grateful for it
It really is. This story is so sad. Davidson watching the Sawfish submerge....Also whenever I hear Waltzing Matilda I think of this movie.
This is the saddest most melancholy scene in a movie I have ever seen- still makes me cry- !!!!! They will never see each other again in this life - getting too close to home now !
Its true. Unfortunately, I suspect the apocalypse we've got coming won't be as quick and painless as it would have been back then.
Beautiful and surrealistic scene at 2:49, with the sunlight reflecting on the waves in the background while Peck and Ava Gardner embrace.
To be picky, they all look a bit too chipper, by that stage they were all suffering from radiation sickness and running at both ends. I suppose that might have spoiled the moment, though.
@@rogueriderhood1862 That's the writing. The cinematography in this movie is wonderful.
The Submarine was HMS Andrew - I served in her in 1950
And I was on the real SSBN-623, USS NATHAN HALE, commissioned in 1963. Nice to meet you, brother.
And I was on the real SSBN-623, USS NATHAN HALE, commissioned in 1963. Nice to meet you, brother.
Thank you for your service, gentlemen.
As ironic as it may seem, Nuclear Assured Destruction has so far, preserved the human race. I think in large part, due to novels such as Neville Shute's 1957 masterpiece 'On the Beach'. An ever present reminder of what we stood to lose, should the un-thinkable happen.
I read Shute's novel in 1967 while in Junior High and it has left a haunting impression on me till this day. It was years later that I learned the novel had been made into the 1959 film.
As good as the film adaptation is...the novel is better.
Though I have had a copy of 'On the Beach' for many decades now, I have never again been able to finish the last few chapters.
1 saw the movie in 1960. I was 13 years old. It had a lasting impact on me even today. Thanks for your service mates.I Served on the USS Barney ddg 6 1967-71.
@@thomasnorton2141 This movie was released for the first time in Austrailia in December 17th, 1959 !!!!
One of the best and most terrifying movies ever made.
Agreed, i pray that the human race is not stupid enough to destroy itself
@@andyhoward7734 Me too. There is so much hopelessness around today, a far cry from the optimism of my childhood. But we must keep faith and hope alive. I believe that God will not allow humanity to destroy itself, as Jesus Himself stated regarding a future event called The Great Tribulation,
““For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will. Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.” (Mat 24:21-22, NASB)
It will be a close call, but humanity will survive. God Himself will intervene to save humanity and pull it from the brink of extinction.
he looks up at the sun... as if it will be the last time... great film making..
It made no sense for him to leave her behind.
It would be the last time he would see the sun, he was taking his submarine out to scuttle (sink) it
@@markwatson3135 They were heading home.. this and the remake are two of the most troubling movies I've ever seen
Three years later in 62 this almost happened... Vile Reds
Exactly 😔😔😔🙏🙏🙏❤️
65 years later still outstanding work! (I was NAVY in my youth.)
Heartbreaking...the mournful "Waltzing Matilda" makes it even more so...
On The Beach is one of the most moving and foreboding movies in cimema history. Characters are brilliantly played. The subject matter is more poignant today than ever before. We need to think before we act, or we are all doomed.
You don't hear too much about this movie today but it had a great effect on me when I first saw it on TV around 1965 or so (I was 10 years old then).
one of the great scenes in the movies. KKB
90293Mike my favoriate of almost all time.
Loved this movie so much.
90293Mike me too lots.
@Graham Palmer We got lucky but I do feel bad for future generations.
If you google the film "On the Beach" there's an interesting back-story surrounding the selection of WM as the musical center of the film. Ernest Gold really wanted to do an original score, but the director insisted that he use it (some would say too much). It's really the only orchestral version I know of, and beautifully rendered by Gold. The ending of this film is one of the most poingniant I know of, due mostly to the beautiful scoring of this great ballad.
@Aussie Cockatoo You got that right. With all due respect to Aussie culture [which I love], the worst one was the "choir of drunks" on the fishing trip. If the director felt he had to include a drunken version, I would have preferred "We All Shagged Matilda". But then, I don't know if those lyrics were around in 1959 !;)
Definitely way overused.
If want to hear a new orchestral version, Civ 6 has a great one: ruclips.net/video/oNoy6AJ3-HY/видео.html
Similar to Casablanca. Max Steiner hated "As Time Goes By" and kept insisting he could write a much better love song. Nope Max, we're going with "As Time Goes By". So Steiner saturated his score with themes from the song and the result was pretty darn close to perfection.
@@bradwilliams7683 Your opinion, not mine. :)
I'd always wanted a first edition of this, finally got one today. Amazing book and brilliant movie. Soberingly beautiful.
One of the most frightening movies at the time. It was all too real for us in 1959. It's rare when a film, a story, can grip the conscience of humanity like this film did. More than "Fail Safe" or "Dr. Strangelove", this movie caused people to think about the unnecessary cost of nuclear war.
The most emotional and sad movie ending of all time !!!
Just for the record, I need to remind people that this is not the actual ending of the film in the movie. The person who posted this clip removed the depressing 'infanticide scene' in order to allow viewers to experience the dramatic denouement of the 'Dwight & Moira' story without interruption, leading to the finale shot of the deserted 'town square' in Melbourne. (IMHO, this ending is far better than the one in the film.)
@@tbthomas5117 Very true. Donna Anderson was the weakest link in this movie. Deleting nearly any scene with her improves it.
Absolutely , I’m crying right now watching this . Ava Gardner was so beautiful , Gregory peck was an amazing actor. At least in the remake the 2 main actors get together. Wow what a movie .
Feels like that today sometimes
With the pandemic.❤️😔🙏
The last scene of the deserted city and the final shot of the “there is still time” banner were very powerful.
This compilation of scene's is the most dramatic in all of the movie world ....Too bad they are all gone now ...........
Couldn't agree more. I watched a documentary on Gregory Peck a few nights ago, a really remarkable human being. And this has got to be one of if not the best screen performances by Fred Astaire in a purely dramatic role.
I struggled with the scene selection for several days. I really wanted to include the wonderful scene with Admiral Bridie and 'Hosgood' having their 'last spot of tea' together, but it made the clip a bit too long. And, I felt a little hesitant cutting out the scene with Tony Perkins and Donna Anderson, but it derailed the musical drama of the score. With all due respect to the director, I suspect this ending would have been better for the film. I think this clip gives us Waltzing Matilda in it's most heartbreakingly beautiful form.
Thanks for your post.
Absolutely
Maybe. But "moving out of family house" scene is 2000 remake creeps way more IMHO
ONE GREAT MOVIE!
I own this movie and it tears me up every time I watch it. I think the kiss in the cabin is the very best kiss in all of Hollywood.
Since this clip is about the music, I left out the final scene with Tony Perkins persuading "Mary" (Donna Anderson) to "drink the tea". (It follows the Peck/Gardner romantic farewell at the dock in the film.) IMHO, that scene interrupts the flow of the ending in a very uncomfortable way, and I wonder if Stanley Kramer ever considered cutting it. Best moment for me is when Gregory Peck takes a last look at the sky before closing the hatch and the boat submerges. A great film any way you cut it.
Saw this when I was 6 years old, understood it even at that age, stayed with me, same with Paths of Glory.
"On the Beach" was a powerful movie in its time. The music matched it perfectly.
Scared the hell outa me when I was 5, never forgot it and his long last look at the sky he will never see again, and the song what a movie and what a prophetic tale we may yet come to this
I can't help but cry every time I hear this score. Powerful movie. And... Gregory Peck
3:30 - 4:25ish -- When Gardner is on the bluff watching the submarine leave, I fucking lost it. Anyone else?
What did you fuck and lose?
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I'm not going to explain American slang to you -- do your own homework.
ragemanchoo82 I agree with you. OTB had many moving scenes and this ending brought my mom to tears every time she saw it. A five-star movie!
OMG sobbing !
Yep totally that song waltzing Matilda and the men going home to die and Ava knowing she too will soon perish too much , too much. I watched that film in 1966 I was 14 nuclear war was a real threat then
I keep coming back and getting the same choking up myself, every time. It's been quite a few (!) years since I watched the whole movie and I'm not sure now that I could handle that now.
You get older, your priorities change.
I felt so awful for the young married couple. They knew happiness and joy for such a short time. I can relate. I lost my eternal true love (My Barbra Rose) to cancer after only two years of marriage. I'm sure others can relate, as well. May Christ keep us all.
NO Christ will NOT keep us - either because we dont deserve it or because he's incompetent
@@loppux Yes, He will, if you repent and believe.
@@loppux a wicked and evil troll. The comment deserved sympathy but SOMEONE had to show not just their inability to sympathize, but their need to attack. Pathetic.
The most perfect love is that that does not last. Cherish your memories together. Not easy when you know it’s the one and only
The arrangement of Waltzing Matilda is my favorite. Thanks for posting. Good on ya mate.
Good points. Since the purpose of my remix was to focus on the music, I excluded the Peter and Mary scene. I think that scene was perhaps a little overwrought. The "Admiral and Osgood" scene accomplished more or less the same purpose, as well the "Fred Astaire Garage" scene. But the best of all (IMHO) was the Door Man at the private club playing a final round of pool at a table off limits to him for most of his life. A bit long, but all in all, a gem of a film.
When I was a kid, I watched this movie from beginning to end........and it left me with nightmares for nearly a week! The very end with Melbourne a ghost city seemed scary, the most poignant scene was a lonely tram on a totally deserted street. Then the blast of music, the empty park......then black. This movie sends a clear message to me that even today, with North Korea, Al Quaeda & others with an all destroying mindset can still destroy us. And it's up to all of us to let the nations know th
It’s very good that you are afraid of and hate representatives of Western civilization during this time we have matured and acquired more powerful weapons as an example of Borey, but my enemies are our motto for our strategic missile forces AFTER US SILENCE A book on which two films were shot, one in 1959 and the second in 2000 good and wonderful films
Ok man stfu why do you have to go deep
I had the same response when I was a kid.
One of the few moments in any film that truly live up to the word "devastating."
Quality movie with an all star cast with a deep dark message of impending doom for us all.
This movie leaves me weeping seeing it again each time. So powerful.
This movie was incredibly amazing & so sad & scary . I always tell my friends & family , if I was an actor and had to cry on cue & had an ear piece in my ear & this song went on I would absolutely cry big time .I cried just now watching the ending OMG❤️😔🙏🙏🙏
Yeah, I'm a guy but I wept when Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner said their final farewells. Saying "goodbye" for good tears one's soul apart.
Doesn’t it😥😥
I wish I didn't have that knowledge. That is one experience the human life can profitably be without for all time. I used to realize I had a life without loss until the big one, the one I cared about more than anybody in my life. My instinct was completely right: it was a thousand blessings not to know that final goodbye. No kind God would allow that goodbye.
@omnia resipsaloquitor Of course I'm not alone. Everyone who has lost anyone they couldn't live without knows what it's like. Awful without end.
@@peterbrown1092 It certainly does.
Remember "Here's looking at you, kid." in Casablanca?
I liked the way Peck took a look at the Sun before submerging.
This movie, certainly, still has relevancy today. Maybe, even more so. I miss Ava,
for she was my sweetheart for many years. Each evening when I sit by the ocean,
my thoughts return to past good movies. Slowly, the actor's images are not so clear and in focus, but. Ava is always there, as beautiful as ever.
Какой трогательный коментарий.Ава Гарднер красавица на века!
Brilliant film and brilliant use of that song
There is another scene in the film, at a hotel, where the characters all sing Waltzing Matilda... very moving
Yes, I remember it well. Thanks for the reminder. I so like the arrangement of Waltzing Matilda; the orchestra was magnificent.
I saw this movie when I was eight years old, until that time I was so blissfully unaware that mankind had the weapons to totally destroy the world. This film crushed me, and a large piece of innocence died for ever with this closing scene.
+oz1902 - People have forgotten what a dangerous time that was, and still is, as long as the superpowers have stockpiles of nukes. The threat of ISIS or North Korea is nothing compared to the hundreds of bullseyes in the cold war times.
But ISIS or North Korea could be the flashpoint for a thermonuclear war between the U.S. and Russia. How did the "war" in On The Beach begin? Nuclear proliferation. What's going on today? Exactly THAT!
While it's certain that mankind will not perish in WW III, there's a good chance that Western Civilzation will. Tens or hundreds of millions dead is hardly a sign that things have improved since 1959.
@@lonebeagle положение ухудшилось!
Although it is so very depressing, I loved this movie. still good after 60 years...If you know anything about Waltzing Matilda and it's connection with the Marines, especially those at Guadalcanal, of which my dad was one...every time it plays it is emotional.
Never forget: We are all on the beach.
No the beaches were closed.
Peck staring up at the sun, probably one of the last times, is heavy.
It seems we're hell-bent on making this come true.
That was Capt. Towers' final look at the sun except maybe through a periscope. They can never surface again. In the book, they simply take the boat out past the limit of Australian territorial waters and scuttle, likely by diving below crush depth.
@@LordZontar I need to read the novel sometime. I've heard good things about it my whole adult life.
@@wilsonbelle6600 The book explains that it was cobalt-laced weapons that were used in the War, and that nuclear proliferation had gotten so out of control in the years leading up to it that even countries like Egypt and Turkey had arsenals and it was from one of them that the War began. Cobalt bombs used by the thousand-fold would produce the kind of long-term world-killing fallout that is the premise of the novel and movie. Those were being seriously discussed at the time but fortunately in our world, although there was never any formal agreement, nobody was actually stupid enough to go ahead and build the damn things.
I saw this amazing movie when I was 14 years old. To this day it ranks as one of the most emotional movies I have ever seen,. When Ava Gardner tells Gregory Peck , "it's been everything", it tears my heart out. As she stands on the beach watching him leave, you can feel the emptiness and loss she experiences. Heartbreaking.
Thanks for the post. More people need to see this film. It's perhaps more compelling today than it was in 1959. (Caveat, today, we may have already run past the tipping point...)
This is a wonderful film that had a powerful effect on me. I really enjoyed the film, even though it get depressing towards the end. It is really worth watching.
"...depressing towards the end"???!!! The whole damned story is depressing but that aside, you were right to be moved by it. Wonderful acting and a powerful, still resonant ending.
I used to think that the ending of Spartacus was the saddest of all time but I was wrong, it's definitely this. At least in Spartacus there was hope whereas in this there is none. Just a Captain and his love forgoing their last fleeting moments of happiness in a doomed world due to loyalty to his men.
I cant remember anyone bringing up this point before, even though I've always felt it was one of the most powerful elements of the story told by this film. Thanks for putting it on the thread.
Navy till his last breath.
The most shocking thing is right at very end it still gives my goose pumps even now.
Me too !!
Yes, when I first read the book I found it profoundly upsetting. This scene is right up there with the end of 'A Night To Remember' when the passengers on the Titanic sing 'Nearer My God To Thee'.
If you haven't seen the 1952(?) "Titanic" with Clifton Webb & Barbara Stanwick, its one of the best too.
Omg absolutely, I totally lose it at the end . Wow major tears .❤️🙏
remember seeing ths move at the Union Theater in Attleboro, Ma
It is so powerful to see the abandon streets just like now durng this pandemic
One of the all time best movie scenes.
How apt is this film now.
This makes me cry so much !
Ava, beautiful Ava.
You put every fabric of your being into your performances.
If by some miracle I was facing you at close range, my knees would buckle then everything would go black.
This was a great movie with an all star cast. Love the clip you choose!!
"... hope? There is always hope!..." One of the great films of all time.
Tears still to my eyes when seeing this movie. What emotions will be felt if the
world faces a real annihilation. Will the Good Lord come? Too profound to think about.
I believe that God will intervene to save humanity from itself.
It was the same for me: the one movie that ever scared me. But even then I found it beautiful.
Waltzing Matilda was one of my mom’s favorite songs. But after seeing this film (back when it was originally released), she couldn’t bear to hear it anymore. Especially after the Cuban missile crisis almost ended it for everyone.
A wonderful motion picture. Wonderful renditions/arrangements of Waltzing Matilda. This story was presented in a serious, realistic manner by a terrific cast. And Ava Gardner was the most incredible woman, the most beautiful animal in the world. This film was a fine achievement.
My old Austin Healey lives again!
This film should be a must see for it's cinematic majesty by Stanley Kramer alone....fabulous film
Gregory Peck, the perfect man !
One of the greatest scenes in film. Minimal dialog. 😍
Great acting, great cinematograpy, superb musical score that is missing in the later TV version.
oh this is a wonderful movie. It begins with Peck looking into the periscope and you see everything in the man's face: concern, responsibility, details, tiredness. I like the scene where Greg takes Ava to a fishing camp. There are a bunch of drunks singing, guess what song, and sounding like a bunch of drunks. But when Peck and Gardner get serious, the harmony tightens and gosh do they sound great. Wonderful scene.
V emotional.... Waltzing Matilda in the background....
I was in second??? grade when the film came out. I remember the music teacher wheeling the piano into our classroom and teaching us all to sing Waltzing Matilda. The song has never left me.
Its about time we had another good movie warning us about the possible end of mankind
We have it on the news every day now.
I've seen quite a few of these movies and they are depressing and bleak. We've gone back to the dystopian, nihilistic genre movies of the 1970s, which are now a reflection of a generation that feels lost, hopeless and sees no future.
Thanks, I read the book when I was 14yr, didn't know how good
it was. It was so pessimistic! Like today in many different ways.
But, life hopefully will go on. And people will feel and still love~
I love this movie even though it is so depressing. I know people have said it's silly (for instance, the idea of moving up the fishing season with the end of the world coming). I love the book too and to me, Nevil Shute showed that his characters retained their infrastructure instead of descending into chaos and anarchy (a la World War Z, for example) because until it truly was hopeless, they retained their hopes that everything would turn out all right. I think that is what makes it so sad.
What would be silly moving up the fishing season if you knew the world's was coming to an end? Neville Shutte was Conservative by nature and so the thought of anarchy in any form whatsoever, even as exceptional as the end of world would be, would of appalled him.
@@Professor6871 in the film, it takes the end of the world to remind people of how we should live anyway: there is no hope, no tomorrow, no rescue, no God, there are no chosen people, there’s just us, alone in the universe, in the here and now. It’s a sobering reality, but it’s one that reminds us that our world and everything in it is precious but vulnerable, and that the only thing that matters is that we look after it and each other.
@@markofsaltburn This sounds like everything is useless, all struggle is useless and we face a hopeless future! I still have hope and believe life has a purpose.
In the book, the sub crew doesn't go back to America, but chooses to sink the sub with all hands on board. In a way, I like the movie version better, as they go back to America to accept their inevitable fate.
@@markofsaltburn THAT IS WHERE YOU'RE WRONG!!! THERE IS A GOD!!! GOD IS ALWAYS HERE FOR ALL OF US!! HE IS TAKING CARE OF US AND WATCHING OVER THOSE WHO BELIEVE! THE FACT THAT YOU DON;T MEANS YOU WILL BE IN FOR A RUDE AWAKENING SOMEDAY...AND BY THEN IT WILL BE TOO LATE!
DON;'T GET ALL JOHN LENNON ON US, HE WAS WRONG!!
Such a great film, fantastic storyline.
Waltzing matilda playing in the background.
The scene where the dwight looks at the sun in the Mornington peninsula(not to far from where harold holt drowned) they tried to make another but will never be as good as the original.
Almost thirty years later, we saw the true horrors of what happens when nuclear energy is mishandled. There are videos of the city of Pripyat following the Chernobyl disaster and evacuation, and it's eerie seeing the undamaged buildings from 1986 and the condition the city is in now (which is what Melbourne would probably look like thirty years after this movie takes place). This film, and the city of Pripyat in real life, are reminders of nuclear power gone horribly wrong.
The city is eerie, but the birth deformities and other suffering due to all that is even eerier.
We were in Germany during Chernobyl. When my wife called her mother in LA to let her know we were okay, she wanted us to leave. I reminded her mother of the several hundred nuclear weapons tests in the United States, spreading radioactive fallout nationwide. We were probably safer there than here. The United States has already had a nuclear war, by our own government.
COSMOTOPPER777: I agree. That last look skywards by Gregory Peck is quite the most heartbreaking scene I have ever seen (Ava Gardner looking out from the cliff is great too)!
Thank you for the clip!
Prorocze. Niestety. ...
His last look at the sun bookends his arrival in Australia. He makes the same gesture as he leaves the conning tower. A special actor given exceptional direction. One of my favorite, see-it-again films of all time. And, at 81, that encompasses of lot of cinema.
This film came back to me today. I was 13 and saw it on television.
One of the most depressing movies I've ever seen. The sub sailing away, while Ava watched from the shore, all to the tune Waltzing Matilda. OMG!
The movie is great but the book ending is so much better than the censored movie ending
Always. Hollywood is nothing but propaganda.
I like the way he just tosses the screwdriver away.
I finished the book again, last night. Some changes made in the film, as expected.
I'd like to see it again, just for Peck and Gardner.
Stanley Kramer has 3 great movies. On theBeach. Judgment at Nuremberg. It's a Mad Mad World. The Scene with Ava and Greg is unsurpassable ! Waltzing' Matilda
I remember my older sister told me that this movie made her cry. I was 14 at the time and it made me very sad to her this as she was 13 years older than me and I felt she knew more than me and I cried too!
This movie is great, it has a very important message for all of us, plus the soundtrack is great!
This is in my top 10 of all time
awesome!
I saw it in 1959 when it first came out. And that song was never the same for me after that.
Their last goodbye really is EVERY last goodbye ...
Dorothy Maher, Final and forever.
Love. Gregory. Peck
Any film with Gregory Peck was great.
@COSMOTOPPER777
Bravo, you!
A haunting film. Thanks for letting it stand on its own merit.
Saddest movie I've ever seen. But it's a great movie.
One of the best movies ever shot. Lets hope mankind will never ever suffer the same fate.