On the Beach (1959)
74 %
Reviews Counted: 19 Fresh: 14 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 6.5/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna Anderson
Director: Stanley Kramer
Screenwriter: John Paxton, Jim Barrett
Producer: Stanley Kramer
Composer: Ernest Gold
Screenwriter: John Paxton, Jim Barrett
Producer: Stanley Kramer
Composer: Ernest Gold
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Gloomy doomsday film that is more talky, melodramatic and numbing than imaginative.
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03/06/08
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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.
01/26/06
Fine photography, but the script is a typically numbing affair, and the cast, aside from Peck and Meillon, seem totally out of their depth.
01/26/06
O cenário apocalíptico continua assustador, mas o tom inadequadamente leve de algumas cenas e a péssima trilha sonora (indicada ao Oscar!) comprometem o resultado final.
01/13/04
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.
05/20/03
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