On the Beach

[baby_bear]

I have never seen this movie before. It's on Showtime Showcase now.

This exchange really hit me. They are referring to nuclear weapons, and in particular, fallout.

Ava Gardner character (drunk and sad): All I want to know is, if everyone was so smart, why didn't they know what would happen?

Gregory Peck character (exceedingly sober): They did.
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Sounds damn familiar.

s_m

[CanuckAmok]

1. It's brilliant.

Fred Astaire's character is heartbreaking, somehow.

Gave me nightmares when I saw it the first time, in my teens.

Enjoy!

[baby_bear]

9. Yes, I'm surprised at Astaire's depth in his role

Gardner is something else as well. But I guess she always was.


We're all on the beach, that's for sure.

s_m

[ewagner]

2. Saw the movie many years ago

Still sends chills up my spine..........

[SoCalDem]

3. It's a great movie

I saw it as a youngster, when it first came out, and I had nightmares for weeks..

The coke bottle scene was so riveting :(

It's the only Fred Astaire movie that I ever liked..:)

[elfwitch]

4. read the book in high school

n/t

[GOPisEvil]

10. I read the book too.

:thumbsup:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. They made a movie of a Neil Young record?

(poor attempt at humour)

[RandomKoolzip]

6. Yeah, a "Motion Picture" in fact!

It'll send the audience running "For the Turnstiles...."

[Wickerman]

7. Walk on

eom

[RandomKoolzip]

8. "See the Sky About to Rain?" That means

it's time to call an "Ambulance (blues)."


Okay, now this premise has been stretched to its limit, I'm sorry!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

11. "Like a Hurricane" of bad puns, here comes Random Koolzip

oh, hang on. Wrong album. Soz.

[RandomKoolzip]

12. Sorry, I'm "Helpless" when it comes to Neil Jung puns....

Guess that's why I'll always be "The Loner." "No More!"

[TexasMexican]

13. I like the 2000 Remake.

I've never seen the original but I did see the remake with Armand Assanti that came out on Showtime in 2000.

I wish I could find it somewhere on DVD, but I dont think they ever released it on DVD, I've only seen it a few places on VHS.

[CanuckAmok]

14. See the original...you'll stop looking for the remake.

I've seen both. The remake is half the movie the original is.

[SoCalDem]

15. Neville Shute was a great writer.. Read "A Town Like Alice"

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Nevil_Shute.htm

You younger folks have to bear in mind that the book was written in 1957, just as the Cold War was heating up..The movie was done in 1959.. People were scared..We had daily "bomb drills" in school.. There were emergency evacuation routes posted in the newspapers.. Towns had underground shelters.. People were building bomb shelters in their back yards..

People were just starting to learn about the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki..

In context , this movie scared the daylights out of people.. Looking back and knowing that we dodged that bullet, it might not seem so frightening, but at the time, lots of people were convinced that it would happen..