Anthony Perkins, Ava Gardner, Donna Anderson
The residents of Australia after a global nuclear war must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
DVD Release Date: August 15, 2001
Stats: 223 reviews
Released at the height of the cold war, Stanley Kramer's On the Beach is the story of a submarine crew forced to deal with the post-apocalyptic realization that the human race is about to become extinct. As with most of Kramer's endeavors, this one is forceful and direct....( read more)
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 ...( read more)
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....( read more)
One of the earliest apocalyptic films, despite being over half-a-century old, has a startlingly unique and refreshing viewpoint on nuclear annihilation. Not post-apocalyptic in the ruined wasteland scenario, nor a commentary on the events leading up to such an event. It still rem...( read more)
Ava Gardner: " He sent me down here. I think he did not know what to do with me."
Gregory Peck. "That is debatable"
A great post-apocalyptic scenarion set in Australia, depicting the various lifes of people involved with the disaster and how they cope with it and the time the...( read more)
I loved the set up of this movie. It was utterly depressing and I am always all over that. Then you have the superb acting from the entire cast. Gregory Peck leads it and there is a scene which contains one of the most natural deliveries of a tough monologue and is just another e...( read more)
Wow. This film still packs a powerful punch. The science behind the concept may be a bit shaky (though undoubtedly would have been considered more accurate at the time the film was made), but then On The Beach isn't interested in the science but in what happens after the f...( read more)
To see it and see it again. Australia is the last in line awaiting the NUKE Fallout. People try to live as usually (F.Astaire wants to race, A.Gardner wants love...) but they know there's no escape.
Last Usa submarine (commander is G.Peck) is looking everywhere to find some liv...( read more)
Entertaining, disheartening movie. 3 negatives to point out:
!) How could anyone like tony Perkins here? His performance is laughable and completely non-believable, which is a shame because his character should have been the most sympathetic. In contrast Astaire won me over in...( read more)
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