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Dec 11, 2023mawall rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
I watched this years ago. Read the book recently and decided to watch the movie.
Sep 06, 2022SAPL454 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent title! Radiation dwells on the minds of these seafarers!
Jul 21, 202210000mefest rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
A 1959 version of what the aftermath of a global radioactive disaster looks like. Stars Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Anthony Perkins and Fred Astaire.
Jan 25, 2022MichelleinBallard rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Julian Osborne (Fred Astaire): "The war started when people accepted the idiotic principle that peace could be maintained by arranging to defend themselves with weapons they couldn't possibly use without committing suicide."
Jun 18, 2021
This film, and the book it's based on, are a product of the Zeitgest of the Eisenhower years. Between 1955, when the idea for this story was just a gleam in Nevil Shute's eye, to 1960 when Stanley Kramer's movie had been distributed to…
Jan 13, 2021WittyPenguin rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
I can see why it would be such a groundbreaker in 1959: so many taboos are discussed in it! The after-effects of Armageddon, the pointlessness of nuclear weapons, radiation poisoning… Do not watch if you don’t like “Waltzing Matilda.”
Nov 17, 2020Crpalace68 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I tho this was a great movie. Certainly a bit dated but the portrayal of a post nuclear world was eerily presented. One of those movies anyone over the age of ten can watch.
Oct 02, 20201mech rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
This didn't really seem to have a very strong plot, just a bunch of events thrown together. In the end, the meaning became clear, an anti war/anti nuke, pro euthanasia movie. I don't want to suffer from radiation sickness, so I will kill…
Sep 18, 20201aa rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
What a disappointment! It was considered to be among the best movies ever when released, but its message is heavy handed, the music is ...um... really cheesy (thankfully there is not a lot of it).
Nov 16, 2019haoke201301 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
5-star movie and worth watching for everyone in particular these days someone advocates that one country should attack another country with tactic nuke and someone else repeated that he could and would, if feels like to, weep this and that…
Nov 11, 2019Martha C Benner rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Good movie and great acting.
Nov 03, 2019paul1 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Good post apocalypse movie, except there must be other drinking songs apart from "Waltzing Matilda"
Oct 06, 2019The_Most_Casual_Observer rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is an excellent Stanley Kramer 'message' flick, with great understated acting, especially on the part of Fred Astaire. The score, based on "Waltzing Matilda," is touching. Quibblers will point out that the bodies of the deceased…
Jun 03, 2019Moviereviewer rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
A very good movie about the last survivors of WW 3 planet wide nuclear holocaust surviving in Australia; the nuclear radiation cloud that is slowly creeping towards Australia to extinguish all humans. A great cast and plot of struggling…
Nov 24, 2018richmole rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
till packs a punch, close to 60 years after its original release, in 1959. And that's saying something. What OTHER movies did I--and millions of others--line up at the box office to see that year? John Wayne in Rio Bravo, Hitchcock's…
Jun 18, 2018Onewhoissaved rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
As a much younger person I vividly recall the people in Minnesota were actually building bomb shelters in their backyards, complete with stocks of canned food and battery operated lights and bedding and water. 'On The Beach' represented…
NeoRauch
Feb 27, 2016NeoRauch rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Ok-it's a movie about an impending apocalypse- made in 1959.
SpaceAngel
Feb 18, 2016SpaceAngel rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Released in 1959 - "On The Beach" is actually a fairly thoughtful version of Nevil Shute's novel about Australians awaiting the effects of nuclear fallout from an explosion that has depopulated the rest of the world. This film features…
Feb 12, 2016
Umm.. ya... what's with this system that tells us this is a 2014 movie/dvd... really a pain...
Dec 09, 2015akirakato rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This is a 1959 American post-apocalyptic SF produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, based on Nevil Shute's 1957 novel of the same name depicting a nuclear war and its aftermath. During 1964, in the months following World War III, the…
Nov 29, 2015
"On the Beach" fascinates me. Now that we are in the grip of abrupt climate change, we may see a similar scenario unfold. We may see an increase in risky behavior such as insane car races. We are certainly seeing denial. My hope is…
Oct 13, 2014lukasevansherman rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
The end of the word may be many things, but I never thought it'd be so dull. Based on the equally dull novel by Nevil Shute, "On the Beach," which probably seemed very of the moment in the 50s, is set in a post-nuclear war world where…
voisjoe1
Mar 03, 2014voisjoe1 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
On the Beach is based upon a novel by Nevil Shute that deals with the aftereffects of nuclear war. We don’t see any of the war, but we do see the aftereffects as the radioactive fallout drifts across the globe. The book is on many college…
May 21, 2011iwasthewalrus rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Umm... Stanley Kubrick had nothing to do with this movie. I think you've made a mistake.
Oct 14, 2010melbl8tr rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Unfortunately, Stanley Kubrick insisted on major changes to the story. Not a bad film but the novel tells a much more powerful tale.