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Stanley Kramer's 1959 antiwar movie looks like everything Kramer did: subtle as a car wreck but undeniably affecting. Gregory Peck plays a submarine commander looking for survivors in Australia after ...( read more 
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MCT:August 29, 2008
Not a bad early post-apocalyptic drama which happened to be released at the height of the cold war. Mostly maudlin as its cast faces their own mortality with a little suspense thrown in for the San Francisco sequence. Everyone speaks with an American accent despite the fact that most of the characters are Australian. How most of the characters' storylines were tied up was done in a reasonably lame manner but this is where I'm guessing the book is better than the movie.
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MCT:August 21, 2008
an early post apocalyptic drama with all star cast. the peck/gardner romance is kinda corny but overall it's pretty damn good. it's fun to see fred astaire tackle a dramatic role even if his accent is patchy and anthony perkins turns in an affecting performance as a family man. also i'm pretty sick of that waltzing matilda song now
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MCT:May 19, 2008Thought I'd watch this film, different watching a black and white movie, but very good acting which goes on for sometime unlike today. Mixing wartime action drama and romance this is A good film to watch
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MCT:March 19, 2008
First hour takes it time to set to set up all the characters, but once they start to search for other life the movie becomes very suspenseful . Fred Astaire give a great supporting performance. His later roles in his career are very interesting. Instead of being that badass on the dance floor he turned into an angry old cynic. I noticed that in this and Towering Inferno.
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MCT:February 11, 2008
Interesting drama, if a little bleak, dealing with a group of people forced to face the fact that while they may have escaped the nuclear holocaust, they're going to die anyway. It's heavy-handed in its anti-nuke message but laudably realistic and depressing in its depiction of hopelessness (see also the animated When The Wind Blows for a similar subject treated well).
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MCT:January 11, 2008Great drama/love story about the end of the world. Disturbing concept with a calming effect. Nice combo. A must see.
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MCT:August 3, 2007Fred is amazing in this dramatic role. Ava is beautiful though aged, and Gregory is still handsome as ever
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MCT:July 5, 2007This is an utterly depressing movie, so you're warned. It's based on the Nevile Shute novel of the same title and it's one of the earliest examples (to my knowledge) of scifi trying for mainstream appeal.
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MCT:July 1, 2007
Termina como algo que me paso a mi en el ejercito. Me mori del susto. Y para aquella epoca me decian que me parecia Gregory Peck. Tengo una foto que dice que si.
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MCT:May 25, 2007
powerhouse of a film from one my favourite directors. in the light of what an atomic war may do to this world today the story may seem improbable that after a global thermonuclear war that there truly would be survivors but what this film accomplioshes quite dramatically is the hoplessness and futility of war on all levels. amazing peformances by all the cast especially wiith a rare non-dancing role for fred astaire.
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MCT:March 3, 2007
By far the most depressing movie in the world. So depressing... so... so.... *sob* I want chocolate now. I highly recommend it... just not when you want to have fun. Now I need to go find something happy to do.... ARGH!!! This movie is so sad! Just not in the normal way. See it. I have it. :)
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MCT:August 1, 2006
Hmm.. the atomic bomb story didn't really create a sense of horror.. didn't really get me to think about it all that much.
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MCT:July 26, 2006Thought the book was outstanding and love Gregory Peck. If I'm not mistaken, wasn't it around this time that Ava Gardner was a drunk & on-again / off-again with Frank Sinatra? Kind of curious to see the shape she's in
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MCT:May 22, 2006
Filmed in the town I spent 18 years of my f@*king life - Frankston what better place to shoot a film about the end of the world!
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MCT:April 1, 2006
Though i recommend reading the book first, this movie is still awesome. I truly believe that it shows what would happen if we were faced with the situation.
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