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On the Beach
Running Time: 135 min.
Produced By: / Stanley Kramer Productions / United Artists
Release By: United Artists

Summary:
Although there'd been "doomsday dramas" before it, Stanley Kramer's On the Beach was considered the first "important" entry in this genre when originally released in 1959. Based on the novel by Nevil Shute, the film is set in the future (1964) when v... Full Summary >>

Cast and Crew: Gregory Peck (Dwight Towers) Ava Gardner (Moira Davidson) Fred Astaire (Julian Osborn) Anthony Perkins (Peter Holmes) All Cast & Crew >> Review: Released at the height of the Cold War (and when most nuclear-themed films were sci-fi horror films like Them!), On the Beach is a very flawed but intensely powerful film. Rarely one for subtlety when preparing one of his famous "message" pictures, d ... Continue >>

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