On the Beach
The Biggest Story of Our Time!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 14 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 26, 2014
- Originally Released: 1959
- Label: KL Studios Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire & Anthony Perkins | |
Performer: | John Tate, Donna Anderson, Lola Brooks, John Meillon, Lou Vernon, Ken Wayne, Richard Meikle, Harp McGuire, Jim Barrett, Basil Buller Murphy, Keith Eden, Guy Doleman, Grant Taylor, John Royle & Frank Gatliff | |
Directed by | Stanley Kramer | |
Edited by | Frederic Knudtson | |
Screenwriting by | John Paxton & Jim Barrett | |
Composition by | Ernest Gold | |
Art Direction by | Fernando Carrere | |
Produced by | Stanley Kramer | |
Director of Photography: | Giuseppe Rotunno & Daniel L. Fapp |
Entertainment Reviews:
A wasted opportunity.
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Film4
Fine photography, but the script is a typically numbing affair, and the cast, aside from Peck and Meillon, seem totally out of their depth.
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Time Out
Rating: 2.5/4 --
A powerful, well-acted, deftly photographed film.
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TV Guide
Rating: 4/5 --
While heartbreaking and touching, it's hard to imagine that riots aren't rampant and that martial law isn't required, but hey, it's a movie, and quite a good -- if overlong -- one, at that.
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 5/5 --
The great merit of this picture, aside from its entertaining qualities, is the fact that it carries a passionate conviction that man is worth saving, after all.
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New York Times
Rating: 7/10 --
The scenario - one of the best in Stanley Kramer's filmography - is uniquely human in the annals of post-nuclear cinema.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Rating: C+ --
Gloomy doomsday film that is more talky, melodramatic and numbing than imaginative.
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Product Description:
After the entire Northern Hemisphere is destroyed by a nuclear war, a group of survivors in Australia prepare for their own inevitable demise. As a deadly cloud of radiation creeps toward the continent, some survivors cling to hopes that life as they know it has continued somewhere, hopes that are fed by the discovery of a mysterious, erratic radio signal emanating from San Diego. Others, such as Astaire's sardonic, race-car driving physicist and Gardner's world-weary, tippling party girl, throw their energies into squeezing the last drops from their lives. A grim, unflinching clarion call for sanity that inches along at a maddeningly deliberate and suspenseful pace. Based on the novel by Nevil Shute. Academy Award Nominations: 2, Best Editing (Frederic Knudtson) and Best Score (Ernest Gold).
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 112,990
- UPC: 738329136321
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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