On the Beach

So real, it hurts. Ava Gardner is excellent and Gregory Peck has one of his best. Not much is ever heard of this movie, but worth a DVD purchase as it is an extremely good movie.... Full review

(There are Spoilers) Emotionally packed drama about a futuristic, for the time the movie was released in 1959, nuclear war that took place in the late fall and early winter of 1963/64. With the only survivors of the conflict being... Full review

I watched this movie in a USAF chow hall on the island of Makung in the China Strait with about 20 other airman. The year was 1960. We were stationed there on a missile site. Our targets were 7 Chinese... Full review

On The Beach was made in 1959 and it's still a fantastic movie some 46 years later. As great as all the performances are, the photography and the script are as out-standing.The only drawback to this black & white classic... Full review

This is one of the great films of the 20th century. The care and attention to detail from Nevil Shute's book are worthy of great praise. Peck's brooding character; Gardner's tipsy party girl; Perkins' confused and totally depressed young father and... Full review

This is a great story, and the acting was superb, because of the great stars that were in it. The only thing, that I had trouble in believing, was the ending. By todays' standards the ending would have been booed. It... Full review

However it isn't tight enough to carry that emotion to its peak. Peck's sincerity is perfection as usual and much of the film works well. But it does have some dead spots.... Full review

And the essence of our lives is expressed in the way we treat each other under the implacable threat of imminent mortality. As Ava Gardner's character says, at the penultimate moment of love's farewell, "It's been nice, Dwight Lionel. It's... Full review

One of the most potent movies I've ever seen. Chilling! Although appearance of movie is dated...it should be...filmed in 1956. The characters, situation, emotion are timeless. The date of the movie in no way weakens the strength of the story.... Full review

The French title is "le dernier rivage"(the last shore)The intellectuals dismiss this movie in France and I've always thought they were wrong.Ava Gardner had never been better with the eventual exception of Huston's "night of the iguana".My favorite part is... Full review

It's a sentiment Hong Sang-soo's Woman on the Beach refutes when it comes to love and desire, both of which the Korean filmmaker depicts naturalistic dialogue to create an alternately humorous and forlorn mood situated somewhere amid the collision between idealism and reality ... Full Review

lacks some technical credibility, ON THE BEACH remains a powerful, well-acted, deftly photographed film in the tradition of THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL;....Produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, this unremittingly bleak message film was intended to have a big impact.... ... Full Review

In "The Road," Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic book that is now a movie that comes out Wednesday, the world doesn't quite end. But the people left probably wish it would. ... Full Article

TO THE mournful strains of Waltzing Matilda , a submarine rises to the surface of Port Phillip Bay ... So begins On the Beach (1959), Stanley Kramer's gloomy vision of the death of humanity after a nuclear war, and the... ... Full Article

One of the scariest movies I've ever seen didn't have a single slasher or hockey-masked murderer. In fact, it wasn't even what you'd call a "horror" film. ... Full Article

O'Clock High is my favorite war movie, and I used to watch On the Beach when I was about 5 or 6.We had the VHS. ... Full Article

Aborigines, plant and animal life. Today, due to common knowledge of within the nuclear community, anyone with Internet access or a library card can read about it. ... Full Article

For someone who hates reporters, Leonardo DiCaprio has certainly made their lives easy.There's always another bar fight, a public make-out session or a night out prowling with his gang, the tastefully named "pussy posse." ... Full Article