People today aren't told about the Cold War in school or about how South Sea Islanders were experimented on with nuclear blasts by the Americans. Apparently, there were innocent aboriginals who died in the British nuclear tests at Maralinga in WA. People NEVER get a say in what happens - the govts steamroll us all and keep us in the dark.
Somehow the scenes (opening and ending) showing the American flag flapping bravely from the conning tower always brings a tear to my eye. Such defiance in the face of doom...
I remember well growing up in a world where this very scenario seemed nor so much "if" as "when". regularly the fallout clouds dropped their radioactive cargo over the land. It seemed there were always bombs going off somewhere (Nevada, Colorado, Mississippi, the Pacific, Australia, Algeria, Russia) and then there were the stand-offs (Berlin, Cuba in which "On the Beach" came mere hours from happening. Just to remind you the end was near. Then there were the weekly air raid drills in school including a botched announcement by the principal leading me and my second grade teacher to fully believe that a nuclear attack was in progress. This film was very relevant at the time it was made and I was seven years old when my father took my brother and I to see it. A horrifying and incredibly sad prospect to a seven year old. It should be regularly aired (flaws and all) to remind those who missed out on the "fun" of the cold war that the future of mankind is still very much in question.
the movie is fantasy though its based off incorrect assumptions and fallacies about fallout and the power of cobalt bombs which at the time had not been fired yet and turned out to be not effective fallout works on a 7/10 rule the radiation dissipates very quickly and after a full year its entirely unlikely that any would still remain you can wait out fallout in your own home you just need to seal the doors and windows and have enough provisions for two weeks
I was 12 when the movie came out and I was an Air Force brat, my dad being a career AF man. Every base we ever lived on was a known target for a Soviet strike. Consequently, we all, military and dependents, knew and understood the ramifications of nuclear war. There was no gallows humor about it. Just the underlying fact that you could literally be vaporized at any time. We never practiced for attack by getting under our desks at the schools on base. What was the point? On The Beach is a classic that still has merit and relevance today. It should be watched once a year by everyone.
I read the book in college years ago and was deeply impacted by the not so subtle undertones. One of those books that never leaves you. Nevil Shute wrote beautifully.
The scene when after the street party and they all go home.....the emptiness with everyone having dispersed, never to ever meet again, is crushingly sad, the inevitable , unavoidable sadness of death and parting
@1:28 There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground And swallows circling with their shimmering sound ; And frogs in the pools singing at night , And wild plum-trees in tremulous white . Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war , not one Will care at last when it is done . Not one would mind , neither bird nor tree , If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone .
This wonderful movie was made when I was 6 yrs old , but I didn’t see it til I came across it on tv late one night while babysitting as a teenager. I’d always been an Astaire fan so I decided to watch. I knew him from the dance movies he’d done and didn’t realize he actually could act. To this day I can’t hear Waltzing Matilda without thinking of this movie.
The scene where Gregory Peck comes off the train and a few of the beach scenes is shot in Frankston, Melbourne, Australia! I was born there! Beautiful place!
Loved Frankston in the 50's, 60's, 70's , my father used to talk about the Movie a fair bit , he owned a Taxi & they had to move during the filming of the Frankston station scenes.
In my humble opinion, I think On The Beach, was and still is, one of the most important films of its time ... and still is in 2021. I’ve heard that the song “Wooden Ships “ ( popular song by Crosby, Stills.Nash and Jefferson Airplane ) was written based on the film. I watched a rerun of the film with my mother when I was 10 years old and what an impact- have always actively protested war and the continued development of nuclear weapons.
I remember the Cuban missile crisis and hiding under a desk at school when I was 5 years old. I saw this movie maybe when I was 11. where he talks about his dead wife and children Deeply disturb me. I can honestly say I wish never the same. I became obsessed with thinking that if I stopped worrying about it it would actually happen.. Let's just say I had a life long battle with drugs drugs to stop the fear.. Thank God for 12 step program.... The threat is real and it's Never been closer today... Very dark days we live in.
I saw this film as a teen and had a nightmare afterwards - dreamed I had to take s poison pill. I still get chills when I hear Waltzing Matilda played in a certain way.
I saw this film when it was first shown on TV in 1962 or ‘63. I was only 8 or 9 years old and it deeply affected me, particularly the scenes of deserted San Francisco and especially Melbourne at the very end. Unfortunately it also instilled a lifelong aversion to the song “Waltzing Matilda”.
Nathan Hale ' s hull number, "623", was used on the submarine portraying the fictional U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS Sawfish in the 1959 film On the Beach. However, the U.S. Navy did not cooperate in the making of On the Beach , and the submarine portraying USS Sawfish was in reality the British Royal Navy diesel-electric submarine HMS Andrew (P423) , which bore no connection to USS Nathan Hale .
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.
Wonderful movie. Seen it over 10 times and I can still watch it again. It's message is so timely about Love and that there is still time to stop this from happeing.
Nice job. The movie is pretty amazing. The spectre of their coming death hangs over every moment. It's very affecting, even from the 50s. And the mystery of the gobbledygook Morse code is a decent MacGuffin. Just finished watching it finally.
I lived through that period and remember it well and must admit that both Covid and increased tension between China and US reminds me of that time. A small mistake by some trigger happy military can easily cause such a disaster.
I have read the book in Dutch a long time ago. It is giving you a steel belt around your stomach when you feel like them that you can't go anywhere and death is creeping up on you... I didn't watch the movie yet but I think I will do my best to find it somewhere. As for your presentation; thank you! I hope you got a good point for it because they should. Also thank you for uploading this! Regards from Roland in The Netherlands
This is an intelligent review of a complex film. There are some startlingly unintelligent reviews on IMDb (as well as some very good ones), but possibly surpassing all others for incomprehension and intellectual arrogance is the review (in the Chicago Reader, linked to on Rotten Tomatoes) by one David Kehr, who dismisses the film as "tiresome and talky". The alleged tiresomeness of the film is asserted rather than demonstrated by Mr Kehr; the complaint of "talkiness" is a relatively recent development in our culture, emerging as attention spans have rapidly dwindled and standards of literacy precipitously fallen (even, it would appear, among professional journalists).
Great movie. The message is as pertinent today as back then. There is an ice cream truck that drives around my neighborhood and plays Waltzing Matilda every day. It always makes me sad.
The Morse code "signal" was being sent from San Diego, not San Francisco. Swain, the American seaman who decides to die in San Francisco and jumps ship, was played by John Meillon, best-known to international audiences as Wally in the movie Crocodile Dundee.
Almost cliches in themselves, but the "Safety Zone" sign lying on its side implying that there's no more safety, and the ironic "There Is Still Time Brother" banner fallen to the ground, implying that time has finally run out, certainly hit home, especially when reinforced by those crashing orchestral finale chords...
Great cast. But the top two stars, who were also a couple, were the Sub running on the surface and the music Waltzing Matilda (instrumental). Prominent at the beginning, and again at the end with all four top stars present: Ava, Gregory, the Sub and Waltzing Matilda. Exceptionally well done. I remember in school having drills to duck under the desk and avoid windows. Just saw this again the other night.
Having lived in Melbourne where the film was mostly shot I know a little bit about the filming history. The locals were extremely helpful at all levels to ensure that Stanley Kramer had whatever he wanted to complete his work. Even when the film was made Melbourne was a very busy city on a par with a mid-sized US city of the day and yet the state government and Melbourne City Council did all that they could to facilitate the filming, blocking off the city's most important thoroughfares. The final scene with the banner was shot outside of what was then the State Museum of Victoria (Melbourne is the capital city of the state of Victoria). This building (now the famed State Library of Victoria) is in the heart of the city and so considerable organisation took place to create these scenes. Fortunately Melbourne was a quiet city on Sundays so that's when the bulk of exterior shooting took place. The use of "Waltzing Matilda" as a theme by Ernest Gold was not so much a homage to the original folk tune as much as it was a "hat's off" salute to one of the tunes that was being considered as a national anthem by those wanting to replace the use of "God Save the Queen" which many thought involved too much kowtowing to Britain when Australia had already become a separate nation in 1901. Here's the use of the theme as a possible national anthem: "God Bless Australia" : ruclips.net/video/AJKQvHhSs8g/видео.html Ultimately a different tune was chosen which is the anthem today: ruclips.net/video/Dqtkckl6s5Y/видео.html
One of the saddest films I have ever seen..... made sadder as I stood in the long queue waiting to have my Covid vaccine and it brought home the fight to keep the human race alive.. the queuing scene in this film is the most poignant ever.
Nice review. The use of Waltzing Matilda is remarkable. As an aside Melbourne hasn’t changed much. And famously Ava Gardener said of that city : ‘ we came to make a movie about the end of the world. This is the right place ‘
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.,,,,,,,,,,,, and I am in Melbourne and it HAS changed
You're wrong about what Ava Gardner is ALLEGED to have said (see other reply) and you're also very wrong about Melbourne not having changed. I worked in the city for some years until the 90's and I don''t recognize most areas when I occasionally go there now. At least Flinders Street Station looks pretty much as it always has, at least from the outside, but Whelan the Wrecker demolished hundreds of older buildings for decades.
The Australian remake of this film is excellent as well. One main difference is that the Captain stays. It's worth a watch if you haven't seen it. It doesn't a credible job.
Then there's the famous quote attributed to Ava Gardner (apparently apocryphal), that if you wanted to make a film about the end of the world, Melbourne was the right place to do it.
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.
Julian Osbourne and Moira Davidson are cousins, in the story, too. Good review, thanks. One of my all-time favourites and should be compulsory viewing for everyone who believes nuclear weapons serve any purpose whatever.
I first encountered this movie in book form. Book, movie #1 and movie #2 are all great. I have a sneaky theory it's really about global warming as that was well known among the educated and connected as Nevil Shute was, but at the time, most people were more worried about bombs.
Your theory is way off beam: the novel was first published in 1957 and global warming wasn't an issue, in fact some people were worried about the earth cooling. There are certainly parallels with global warming but the book dates from the Cold War and that's obviously what it's about.
Great novel and movie! If you liked this movie..read the novel.."Love In The Ruins" by Walker Percy. Great novel. Read it in college and On The Beach, in High School.
While watching this movie made me wonder why not load up the submarine with all the people of Melbourne and travel further south to Antarctica with all the supplies they could gather and ride out the radiation for a year or two and rebuild society. In the end everyone died. If I was a sailor I would have stayed in Australia.
If you ever got to go inside a submarine, you'd know immediately why such an idea would be unfeasible. Modern boats are probably a bit more spacious, but there is very little excess room aboard.
Melbourbe is still prrfect for a movie about the ending of thd world. Its actually "new Rome" and the hkme of Satan. The oldest football club in the world is the Melbourne AFL club The Demons. The richest hirse race The Melbourne Cup and thats the sport of kings. Theres something here and always will be.
How can you compare nuclear war and literally end of the world to a every year flu? Not sayin Covid is anything to look down upon but seriously we have flu every year killing hundreds of thousands people.
Why is it these "film reviewers" never get their simplest of facts straight. Perkins plays a lieutenant, not a lieutenant commander. The morse signal is coming from San Diego, not San Francisco. Seriously, why bother writing a review if you are not going to pay attention while watching the movie, anyway?
Was made in 1959. If you can't see beyond the filming ( and some of the acting, problem was they only used big names in those days ) you must be a shallow person not to understand the impact of the film at the time.
@@Thursdaym2 wow you acertained all that about me from being underwhelmed by a film? You are a very talented individual. By the way I watch old movies regularly hot shot.
I grew up during the Cold War, and remember well the fear we lived with. This was, and still is, a powerful movie.
People today aren't told about the Cold War in school or about how South Sea Islanders were experimented on with nuclear blasts by the Americans. Apparently, there were innocent aboriginals who died in the British nuclear tests at Maralinga in WA. People NEVER get a say in what happens - the govts steamroll us all and keep us in the dark.
and now I can feel this fear ... 😪 One of the best apocalyptic movie I ve ever seen... Death is breathing on us again... in these times.
The scene where Peck tells Gardner about his hopes for his dead family is devastating. He should have got an oscar.
I still can't watch that scene without shedding a tear.
He got one 3 yrs later--To Kill A Mockingbird.
The ending of this movie sent chills down my spine.
Somehow the scenes (opening and ending) showing the American flag flapping bravely from the conning tower always brings a tear to my eye. Such defiance in the face of doom...
I remember well growing up in a world where this very scenario seemed nor so much "if" as "when". regularly the fallout clouds dropped their radioactive cargo over the land. It seemed there were always bombs going off somewhere (Nevada, Colorado, Mississippi, the Pacific, Australia, Algeria, Russia) and then there were the stand-offs (Berlin, Cuba in which "On the Beach" came mere hours from happening. Just to remind you the end was near. Then there were the weekly air raid drills in school including a botched announcement by the principal leading me and my second grade teacher to fully believe that a nuclear attack was in progress. This film was very relevant at the time it was made and I was seven years old when my father took my brother and I to see it. A horrifying and incredibly sad prospect to a seven year old. It should be regularly aired (flaws and all) to remind those who missed out on the "fun" of the cold war that the future of mankind is still very much in question.
the movie is fantasy though its based off incorrect assumptions and fallacies about fallout and the power of cobalt bombs which at the time had not been fired yet and turned out to be not effective
fallout works on a 7/10 rule the radiation dissipates very quickly and after a full year its entirely unlikely that any would still remain you can wait out fallout in your own home you just need to seal the doors and windows and have enough provisions for two weeks
I was 12 when the movie came out and I was an Air Force brat, my dad being a career AF man. Every base we ever lived on was a known target for a Soviet strike. Consequently, we all, military and dependents, knew and understood the ramifications of nuclear war. There was no gallows humor about it. Just the underlying fact that you could literally be vaporized at any time. We never practiced for attack by getting under our desks at the schools on base. What was the point?
On The Beach is a classic that still has merit and relevance today. It should be watched once a year by everyone.
I read the book in college years ago and was deeply impacted by the not so subtle undertones. One of those books that never leaves you. Nevil Shute wrote beautifully.
The scene when after the street party and they all go home.....the emptiness with everyone having dispersed, never to ever meet again, is crushingly sad, the inevitable , unavoidable sadness of death and parting
linclinc5 Melbourne looks much the same in reality today !
fordlandau ....5.43, is that place still there? The building with the columns
linclinc5 yes. It’s the art gallery.
Seems like a difficult movie to find?? Anyone know why??
Fred Astaire-his speech about “who started it”-and then the way he hopped into his Ferrari for his last dance with death!
Unless you had lived through this period, probably won't appreciate the impact his had on viewers. Then we had the real cold war.
You are living it now. More so than ever before.
When you think about it, this movie is the prequel to Mad Max
John Patterson and the sequel to Dr Strangelove.
No. Mad Max was comic book fare. There was nothing adolescent about ON THE BEACH.
@1:28
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound ;
And frogs in the pools singing at night ,
And wild plum-trees in tremulous white .
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war , not one
Will care at last when it is done .
Not one would mind , neither bird nor tree ,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone .
Fred Astaire was amazing in this.
Yes...totally different from his musical comedy days. The film shows that he was, in fact, an excellent dramatic actor.
Yes the scene where he is asked how the war started is the best in the film
I believe this movie and the Towering inferno he got a Oscar nomination for best supporting actor but didn't win.
This wonderful movie was made when I was 6 yrs old , but I didn’t see it til I came across it on tv late one night while babysitting as a teenager. I’d always been an Astaire fan so I decided to watch. I knew him from the dance movies he’d done and didn’t realize he actually could act. To this day I can’t hear Waltzing Matilda without thinking of this movie.
The scene where Gregory Peck comes off the train and a few of the beach scenes is shot in Frankston, Melbourne, Australia! I was born there! Beautiful place!
Loved Frankston in the 50's, 60's, 70's , my father used to talk about the Movie a fair bit , he owned a Taxi & they had to move during the filming of the Frankston station scenes.
As I live in Melbourne, I have to really work hard to recognise it, as much has changed.
There's video about that you can also find on RUclips. Keep looking till you find it.
Chilling. Who doesn't think of this movie when they see the empty streets of NYC, with the Corona virus of 2020?
very true
I thought of it when I saw the streets of downtown San /fracisco with no people on 9/11.
Those streets were shot in Melbourne, Aus!
Man, you said it.
In my humble opinion, I think On The Beach, was and still is, one of the most important films of its time ... and still is in 2021. I’ve heard that the song “Wooden Ships “ ( popular song by Crosby, Stills.Nash and Jefferson Airplane ) was written based on the film. I watched a rerun of the film with my mother when I was 10 years old and what an impact- have always actively protested war and the continued development of nuclear weapons.
I remember the Cuban missile crisis and hiding under a desk at school when I was 5 years old.
I saw this movie maybe when I was 11. where he talks about his dead wife and children Deeply disturb me. I can honestly say I wish never the same. I became obsessed with thinking that if I stopped worrying about it it would actually happen.. Let's just say I had a life long battle with drugs drugs to stop the fear.. Thank God for 12 step program.... The threat is real and it's Never been closer today... Very dark days we live in.
First saw this film many years ago. Waltzing Matilda never sounded the same since. A powerful film still as effective as ever.
When the submarine stops at San Fransisco , the empty streets are one of the creepiest things ever.
I saw this film as a teen and had a nightmare afterwards - dreamed I had to take s poison pill. I still get chills when I hear Waltzing Matilda played in a certain way.
I saw this film when it was first shown on TV in 1962 or ‘63. I was only 8 or 9 years old and it deeply affected me, particularly the scenes of deserted San Francisco and especially Melbourne at the very end. Unfortunately it also instilled a lifelong aversion to the song “Waltzing Matilda”.
Re: Waltzing Matilda. Don't come running to Oz when the pandemic (or more likely Trump) drives you to seek refuge. We love the bloody song!
@@davidclark4916 I'm Australian and the endless repetition of the song in the movie makes me cringe
Nathan Hale ' s hull number, "623", was used on the submarine portraying the fictional U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS Sawfish in the 1959 film On the Beach. However, the U.S. Navy did not cooperate in the making of On the Beach , and the submarine portraying USS Sawfish was in reality the British Royal Navy diesel-electric submarine HMS Andrew (P423) , which bore no connection to USS Nathan Hale .
But we HALE alumni still get a bang out of this anyway. lol.
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.
One of the best anti-war movies of all times. Don't miss it.
COVID-19 brought me here. Sheltering in Place.
Wonderful movie. Seen it over 10 times and I can still watch it again. It's message is so timely about Love and that there is still time to stop this from happeing.
Nice job. The movie is pretty amazing. The spectre of their coming death hangs over every moment. It's very affecting, even from the 50s. And the mystery of the gobbledygook Morse code is a decent MacGuffin. Just finished watching it finally.
I lived through that period and remember it well and must admit that both Covid and increased tension between China and US reminds me of that time. A small mistake by some trigger happy military can easily cause such a disaster.
I have read the book in Dutch a long time ago. It is giving you a steel belt around your stomach when you feel like them that you can't go anywhere and death is creeping up on you...
I didn't watch the movie yet but I think I will do my best to find it somewhere.
As for your presentation; thank you! I hope you got a good point for it because they should. Also thank you for uploading this!
Regards from Roland in The Netherlands
This is an intelligent review of a complex film.
There are some startlingly unintelligent reviews on IMDb (as well as some very good ones), but possibly surpassing all others for incomprehension and intellectual arrogance is the review (in the Chicago Reader, linked to on Rotten Tomatoes) by one David Kehr, who dismisses the film as "tiresome and talky". The alleged tiresomeness of the film is asserted rather than demonstrated by Mr Kehr; the complaint of "talkiness" is a relatively recent development in our culture, emerging as attention spans have rapidly dwindled and standards of literacy precipitously fallen (even, it would appear, among professional journalists).
Great movie. The message is as pertinent today as back then. There is an ice cream truck that drives around my neighborhood and plays Waltzing Matilda every day. It always makes me sad.
The Morse code "signal" was being sent from San Diego, not San Francisco.
Swain, the American seaman who decides to die in San Francisco and jumps ship, was played by John Meillon, best-known to international audiences as Wally in the movie Crocodile Dundee.
Thank you for this review. Among my favorites. by the way, what was your grade on this project?
i would watch these reviews if you make more!
The streets of Melbourne. My home town. Funny, there's also Hobart Tasmania further south. A beautiful place too!
I watched it at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown. It was a powerful experience.
Where did you see it? I can’t find the full movie anywhere.
Almost cliches in themselves, but the "Safety Zone" sign lying on its side implying that there's no more safety, and the ironic "There Is Still Time Brother" banner fallen to the ground, implying that time has finally run out, certainly hit home, especially when reinforced by those crashing orchestral finale chords...
Great cast. But the top two stars, who were also a couple, were the Sub running on the surface and the music Waltzing Matilda (instrumental). Prominent at the beginning, and again at the end with all four top stars present: Ava, Gregory, the Sub and Waltzing Matilda. Exceptionally well done. I remember in school having drills to duck under the desk and avoid windows. Just saw this again the other night.
Я смотрела ремейк этого фильма " На последнем берегу" лет15 тому назад,но этот лучше.
Having lived in Melbourne where the film was mostly shot I know a little bit about the filming history. The locals were extremely helpful at all levels to ensure that Stanley Kramer had whatever he wanted to complete his work. Even when the film was made Melbourne was a very busy city on a par with a mid-sized US city of the day and yet the state government and Melbourne City Council did all that they could to facilitate the filming, blocking off the city's most important thoroughfares. The final scene with the banner was shot outside of what was then the State Museum of Victoria (Melbourne is the capital city of the state of Victoria). This building (now the famed State Library of Victoria) is in the heart of the city and so considerable organisation took place to create these scenes. Fortunately Melbourne was a quiet city on Sundays so that's when the bulk of exterior shooting took place.
The use of "Waltzing Matilda" as a theme by Ernest Gold was not so much a homage to the original folk tune as much as it was a "hat's off" salute to one of the tunes that was being considered as a national anthem by those wanting to replace the use of "God Save the Queen" which many thought involved too much kowtowing to Britain when Australia had already become a separate nation in 1901. Here's the use of the theme as a possible national anthem:
"God Bless Australia" : ruclips.net/video/AJKQvHhSs8g/видео.html
Ultimately a different tune was chosen which is the anthem today: ruclips.net/video/Dqtkckl6s5Y/видео.html
tripsadelica frankston?
Yes...you're right. I neglected to add that the beach scenes were, indeed, shot in the Frankston area and beyond.
Read the book as well.
This video is a gem.
Very current feelings in 2020 with CV.
I agree with you..9 out of 10 stars. I just watched this movie and it really effected me.
One of the saddest films I have ever seen..... made sadder as I stood in the long queue waiting to have my Covid vaccine and it brought home the fight to keep the human race alive.. the queuing scene in this film is the most poignant ever.
Auch ich habe diesen Film damals gesehen und er bewegt mich noch heute und wir können nur hoffen, dass dieses Ereignis nie eintrifft.
7:32 those were the days
Charlton heston mentioned when
Making 55 days at Peking
Ava gardner was difficult to work
With
Very good review. I remember duck and cover in school. O and Mr peck also smacked 'ms Gardner on the bum with a boat paddle too.
Not the 'North Atlantic', instead the 'North Pacific'.
Nice review. The use of Waltzing Matilda is remarkable.
As an aside Melbourne hasn’t changed much. And famously Ava Gardener said of that city : ‘ we came to make a movie about the end of the world. This is the right place ‘
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.,,,,,,,,,,,, and I am in Melbourne and it HAS changed
You're wrong about what Ava Gardner is ALLEGED to have said (see other reply) and you're also very wrong about Melbourne not having changed. I worked in the city for some years until the 90's and I don''t recognize most areas when I occasionally go there now. At least Flinders Street Station looks pretty much as it always has, at least from the outside, but Whelan the Wrecker demolished hundreds of older buildings for decades.
@@robert-brydson-1 And this only added to Ava's distrust of the press. She said once ""The press is always making up stories about me"
The Australian remake of this film is excellent as well. One main difference is that the Captain stays. It's worth a watch if you haven't seen it. It doesn't a credible job.
The remake is also worth seeing… made in 2000, starring Bryan Brown, Rachel Ward and Armand Assante. Keep your tissue box handy.
i live in Melbourne where this was filmed, and it looks eerily similar now with the lockdown and covid curfew
On The Beach, Neil Young's greatest album!
Then there's the famous quote attributed to Ava Gardner (apparently apocryphal), that if you wanted to make a film about the end of the world, Melbourne was the right place to do it.
It wasn't enough of a party town for her. The bars closed too early!
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.
My Dad worked on the Manhatten Project. Tell me about it...
Is this was going to happen to us in 2020
In a word no. Please don’t worry.
Let's hope so. I am tired of my nuisance neighbors.
Death is breathing on us again... in these times...
Julian Osbourne and Moira Davidson are cousins, in the story, too. Good review, thanks. One of my all-time favourites and should be compulsory viewing for everyone who believes nuclear weapons serve any purpose whatever.
Its best to read the book. You will learn a lot more than a 2 hour movie
Pure melodrama.
Anthony Perkins' role as Holmes was that of a lieutenant (jg) or the Aussie equivalent.. Not a lieutenant commander.
Everyone turns the 🔑 key
Just from a strictly scientific perspective, fallout loses almost all of its radioactivity within a couple weeks, where it is no longer lethal.
I first encountered this movie in book form. Book, movie #1 and movie #2 are all great. I have a sneaky theory it's really about global warming as that was well known among the educated and connected as Nevil Shute was, but at the time, most people were more worried about bombs.
Your theory is way off beam: the novel was first published in 1957 and global warming wasn't an issue, in fact some people were worried about the earth cooling. There are certainly parallels with global warming but the book dates from the Cold War and that's obviously what it's about.
Great movie.
That might happen.
Great novel and movie! If you liked this movie..read the novel.."Love In The Ruins" by Walker Percy. Great novel. Read it in college and On The Beach, in High School.
While watching this movie made me wonder why not load up the submarine with all the people of Melbourne and travel further south to Antarctica with all the supplies they could gather and ride out the radiation for a year or two and rebuild society. In the end everyone died. If I was a sailor I would have stayed in Australia.
If you ever got to go inside a submarine, you'd know immediately why such an idea would be unfeasible. Modern boats are probably a bit more spacious, but there is very little excess room aboard.
Cool
What's cool? Must be sick.
It shows.
Curiosamente, si hubiera un desastre nuclear en los EE.UU. en 1959, que no fue publicado
Melbourbe is still prrfect for a movie about the ending of thd world. Its actually "new Rome" and the hkme of Satan. The oldest football club in the world is the Melbourne AFL club The Demons. The richest hirse race The Melbourne Cup and thats the sport of kings. Theres something here and always will be.
This is what’s happening in 2020 corona virus
How can you compare nuclear war and literally end of the world to a every year flu? Not sayin Covid is anything to look down upon but seriously we have flu every year killing hundreds of thousands people.
Read John Berry's book on the Great Influenza of 1918. That was much worst than today's Covid 19 scare
Mi piacerebbe rivedere questo film.
Spoilers????
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Spoiler: Everybody dies.
Why is it these "film reviewers" never get their simplest of facts straight. Perkins plays a lieutenant, not a lieutenant commander. The morse signal is coming from San Diego, not San Francisco. Seriously, why bother writing a review if you are not going to pay attention while watching the movie, anyway?
And they went to check radiation levels in the North Pacific, not the North Atlantic.
A likely scenario due to Ukraine shelling of a huge Russian nuke reactor
Been on my radar for years. Just now watched it . must say I was underwhelmed
Was made in 1959. If you can't see beyond the filming ( and some of the acting, problem was they only used big names in those days ) you must be a shallow person not to understand the impact of the film at the time.
@@Thursdaym2 wow you acertained all that about me from being underwhelmed by a film? You are a very talented individual. By the way I watch old movies regularly hot shot.
Sorry guys but this film is boring