On the Beach (1959)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.4/10   

Director:

Stanley Kramer

Escritores:

John Paxton (screenplay)
Nevil Shute (novel)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

17 diciembre 1959 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Ciencia-Ficción

Plot:

The residents of Australia after a global nuclear war must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.

Plot Keywords:

Australia | Nuclear War | Submarine | Nuclear Fallout | Radiation

Premios:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

The last shore

Reparto

Gregory Peck	...	Cmdr. Dwight Lionel Towers, USS Sawfish
Ava Gardner	...	Moira Davidson
Fred Astaire	...	Julian Osborne
Anthony Perkins	...	Lt. Cmdr. Peter Holmes, Royal Australian Navy
Donna Anderson	...	Mary Holmes
John Tate	...	Adm. Bridie
Harp McGuire	...	Lt. Sunderstrom (ashore in San Diego)
Lola Brooks	...	Lt. Hosgood (Bridie's secretary)
Ken Wayne	...	Lt. Benson
Guy Doleman	...	Lt. Cmdr. Farrel
Richard Meikle	...	Davis
John Meillon	...	Ralph Swain (ashore in San Francisco)
Joe McCormick	...	Ackerman (radiation sickness)
Lou Vernon	...	Bill Davidson (Moira's father)
Kevin Brennan	...	Dr. King (radiation diagnosis)

También conocida como:

La hora final (Spain) [es]

Duración:

134 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Clasificación:

Germany:16 | UK:PG | USA:Approved (PCA #19372) | Australia:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

Canadian Bay, Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia

Compañía:

Stanley Kramer Productions

Trivialidades:

It is rumored that guards at each end of the Golden Gate Bridge were paid $500 each to stop cars for a minute to get footage of an empty bridge.

Errores:

Errores Reales: The Sawfish is supposed to be a nuclear submarine, but as there were actually very few actual nuclear submarines in service at the time of filming, a 'Tench' class submarine was used in filming, and in several scenes you can see the exhaust from the diesel engines.

Citas:

[first lines]
Dwight Towers: Prepare to surface.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004) (VG)

Banda de Sonido:

Onward, Christian Soldiers

The last shore

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 the central one:one of the soldiers tries to find the cause for the strange Morse signals.He crosses bleak dead San Francisco harbor (the camera takes prodigious high angle shots of him,making us share his loneliness and his hope against hope)Hope that was to be short-lived!What a symbol,this equivalent of a bottle thrown into the sea!So few special effects,ans so much emotion.Stanley Kramer's peak.