On the Beach (DVD - 1959)

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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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  TopTenREVIEWS.com - Mar 17, 2008

On the Beach (1959)

On the Beach (1959) receives an overall TopTenREVIEWS rating of 2.98 out of 4.00. It is ranked the #1,192 movie of all time, #15 movie from 1959 and #676 Drama movie of all time. The rating and ranking is based on an average of 14 critic scores, awards and other criteria. To see a breakdown of the movie ranking, read individual critic reviews, or see how other movies ranked, click on the link...

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• 3.9

  Rotten Tomatoes - Nov 30, -0001

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