this movie is epic and one of the best films of our era hands down. Acting, script, casting were perfect. If you like realistic movies like THE ROAD, you must see this film.
@wardenphil15 жыл бұрын
In the 1959 version, a window was left open, allowing a roll-up windowshade to knock a coke bottle onto a telegraph key. By freak coincidence, the windowshade cord simultaneously caught on the key, creating a balance. Everytime the wind blew, the balance was upset, actuating the key.
@tommissouri48714 жыл бұрын
Wow, just like Star Trek, the Captain always leading the away team into potential danger instead of staying on the ship (boat).
@tommissouri48714 жыл бұрын
@William Wright - I've often wondered why they needed 400 people on that starship if they only had 7 that did everything except when they needed a redshirt to kill off. The movies spelled that out when it only took 6 of them to steal a starship and take off across the galaxy.
@florinivan69072 жыл бұрын
To be at least somewhat fair given the circumstances we might rationalise it as he's already well into his 40s while most of the crew are 20s early 30s. In pure utilitarian terms having him risk it makes more sense. At this point the main and only goal left is to preserve as many reproductive age persons as possible. Though I doubt the scriptwriter thought of this.
@Galactica-Actual2 жыл бұрын
@@tommissouri4871 Yeah, but EVERYTHING was full atomated, I mean, chimpanzee , and two traniies could run her......
@riceboy1701e15 жыл бұрын
There was a Coca Cola bottle discovered to be sending the random Morse code in the book. No disrespect to either Pepsi or Royal Crown was intended. It was just a Coke bottle. For a more faithful book-to-movie rendition, watch the 1960s version with Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner. That version is, IMO, still the best portrayal of the book.
@sue16993 жыл бұрын
I liked it better, too, except the ending was changed from the book.
@cr4yv3n2 жыл бұрын
This ending was better
@angloaust15758 ай бұрын
Morse code was still in use in the 1950s even in telegrams Some northwest Australian Towns were still using it Into the 1960s!
@smarfiette14 жыл бұрын
The girl - just stunning! Her face, the pose - all. You can have nightmares for a very long time after seeing this...
@steves26944 жыл бұрын
You never find hundreds of dead in budget horror movies. All the actors have to get paid.
@daviddimarino46486 жыл бұрын
Excellent yet very sad. Movie. Very well paced and scripted not to mention acting as well as direction. If or when the end comes, by our own hands that is. This is how I imagine it. No happy endings no mutants NO SURVIVERS . Much better then the 1961 version
@patricedhanis-rouse37772 ай бұрын
Nevel Schut...a classic 😮
@simplenametag13 жыл бұрын
There is a much better, much more realistic film about this called 'Threads'. But beware, its not for the weak of heart.
@petealtomare39137 жыл бұрын
And "Testament", 1983, Jane Alexander and William Devane- Really tough in a low key way.
@stephenspears41892 жыл бұрын
I've seen threads and is much more realistic. Whereas this is a modern take on a classic novel from the 50s I think. On the beach. Great novel too. Read it and seen the 1964 Gregory peck 'On The Beach.
@aussietwilightfreak Жыл бұрын
@@petealtomare3913 I made the mistake of watching this movie after I had children…heartbreaking 😩
@laetitiazichy-vanlidth588211 ай бұрын
Putin..Prigodgyn.. too late now ..
@himbuxterrafux95255 жыл бұрын
Poor lady!What a horrible death!Alone in a foreign country...
@empire16116 жыл бұрын
Watching that woman on the seat, I had the feeling she was going to come to life at any minute, and start attacking them. Maybe I should stop watching films like Dawn of the Dead... ;)
@cr4yv3n2 жыл бұрын
Lol
@agj914 жыл бұрын
if its 150 rad, those suits wouldnt stop nothing, they would be dead by the time they got to shore.
@Nnneemo3 жыл бұрын
It's sealed with lead contain rubber. It's give some time but not much.
@lastswordfighter2 жыл бұрын
They are not even radiation suits or hazardous material suits. It's some variant of fire fighters suit.
@MrAntoineCool11 жыл бұрын
One thing is bothering me: when they arrive to the carcass of the dead Australian reporter (the one who tried to send file via satellite), she seems to have taken some sort of pills. Now where the bloody hell she get those from!? Same thing with the apartment; were Americans also prepared to avoid the painful death in advance? Judging by the message she sent, the war broke out all the sudden, so nationwide distribution of said pills in advance wouldn't make any sense. I hope you get my point.
@jamesbracy23683 жыл бұрын
I think what happened was the war broke out but Anchorage itself wasn’t hit . The radiation likely took a few days to a week to impact them after the attack so the residents had some time to prepare for the end (be it limited). The Australian reporter jenny had probably made numerous trips back and forth to the studio to send a last message home in those final days before the fall out hit which is why they mentioned she had nowhere else to go. What is a bit of a mystery is if she had a solar battery with a Sat transmitter why others messages wouldn’t have got back home (or be transmitting and picked up by the sub)? Anyway - the US government or what was left of it by all accounts had these pills stockpiled in the event they were ever needed and broke them out for the residents of Anchorage to take to spare them the painful death that would soon come with the fall out. The family in the bed appears to have had some time to prepare. Others in the cities that were attacked appear to have had no time and died of radiation sickness if they weren’t killed by the blast. But then again Bobby mentioned his parents in San Francisco“ died peaceful” so who knows.
@Nnneemo Жыл бұрын
Fentatyl or other heavy synthetic opioids maybe vet med from elefant zoo. Even beyond nano-gramm enough for overdose. From this condition dosage dosent matter anymore.
@tamlandipper293 ай бұрын
The ending isn't the actual meat of On The Beach. It is the whole arc of people doing their professional best to be effective and optimistic in the face of the challenge of fallout ...and it being too bloody late.
@Professor687112 жыл бұрын
@RedJoe10 One of the authors I thinks was Carl Sagan the famous cosmologist and author. Another book written about nuclear war and it aftermath i.e. nuclear winter, was Jonathan Sch-ell's book The Fate of the Earth. That book was written around the same time as Sagan's one was. Both are excellent reads on the subject and were hugely influential in the debate about the effects of nuclear war on life on earth.
@Professor687112 жыл бұрын
@v19d once it started nobody would be sure who started it first. The book and the movie mentions that quite lot. Each side counter claims the other. As they say the truth is the first casualty of war.
@candr13 жыл бұрын
@agj9 I don't think so. ! rad is equal to 10 miligray or .01 rad. 150 rads is equal to 1.5 grey (Gy). the human body can take up to 5 grey (Gy) for a short period of time (about 10 to 30 hours) before death. With a suit they would be able to take quite a bit more then that.
@thomasmatthewharris19809 жыл бұрын
what a nightmare
@grooveclubhouse13 жыл бұрын
a book which is very similar to this is called "The Last Ship" by william brinkley. Its basically a USN destroyer in the same situation.
@stephendoherty8291 Жыл бұрын
A little more hope in that book with some islands supporting life in the southern oceans. They also find a Russian sub who finds them fuel (for food) and they find the nuclear winter moving south where there is no radiation fallout. They also launch their missiles at the start of the war under war orders. No other ship of its class or in the southern oceans seems to survive.
@Hendo5614 жыл бұрын
Hmmm... she should be saying on the DVD "Don't despair. I've got something for you at last. The whales have survived"... the middle part of the message that the sub picked up is missing. Still a very harrowing scene...
@wardenphil15 жыл бұрын
Good Luck with your studies. I'm a EE too... I graduated in the late 80's.
@LutzDerLurch10 жыл бұрын
is it just me, or is the sound waaaay out of sync at the end of the vid?
@Robert_Douglass7 жыл бұрын
LutzDerLurch yeah, I noticed that too...
@spodge12333 жыл бұрын
It's the radiation.
@LupusGelos3 жыл бұрын
@@spodge1233 xD
@ObssesedNuker13 жыл бұрын
@georgel19841 Erm, no. Plenty of electronics are hardened against effects and EMP is a rather unreliable weapon, it will short out some stuff while leaving others of the same design alone. What I am wondering is why Anchorage looks rather intact for a prime nuclear target.
@luizcarlosnunes19914 жыл бұрын
The movie that freaked me out the most because it can actually happen.
@tim20154 жыл бұрын
I think because just enough heads of state, kings, presidents, etc have had just enough sense to not ‘do it’.
@wardenphil15 жыл бұрын
Certainly not now, but maybe in the future as power consumption decreases. There is precedent - compare the calculators 30 years ago with those today.
@RedJoe1012 жыл бұрын
@wardenphil It was in a book published by a group of scientists called 'Nuclear War: The Aftermath'. I think it was released in the early 1980s.
@Otokichi7865 жыл бұрын
Just as they solve the mystery of the video message, sound synch went off, which means that video and sound no longer match. Leavng Part 12 for Part 13...
@RedJoe1012 жыл бұрын
@Professor6871 Certainly rings a bell. The book itself was amazing like a reference book you could go back too.
@sammencia79453 жыл бұрын
There would be bodies everywhere and animals feeding off of them. Smell would be horrible.
@alphaacton12 жыл бұрын
a little more accurate than the first movie
@sue16993 жыл бұрын
Not really.
@wardenphil15 жыл бұрын
Just out of curiousisty, is that a hard limit of physics or is that the current state of the art?
@angloaust15753 жыл бұрын
The captain should have stayed on Board as in the novel
@roseaolcom10 жыл бұрын
I've watched this several times, & I really think it's good, but I just realized something..how did the newscaster in Anchorage have "the pill" available when the attacks were apparently a surprise to her?? Just wondering!
@maarukka589 жыл бұрын
She came there over and over again afterwards trying to get her last message for her family in Australia. And on her last time in there she finally took the pill.
@v19d4 жыл бұрын
Possibly the radiation took a week or more to reach Alaska from China and the pills were made underground facilities. I can guess they made it fast to have an ingredient to rat poison.
@k.g.alatore3553 жыл бұрын
Likely officials saw the writing on the wall and offered them as the last solution. It beats completely abandoning your residents.
@Nnneemo3 жыл бұрын
@@v19d RAT POISON!? YOUR DUDE DON'T KNOW WHAT CHOOSE TO MAKE LAST TRIP!! METH OPIOID MIX "KINGS LAST".
@soeffingwhat13 жыл бұрын
@GoldenBoughTrader - Yep, it makes a hell of an emotional impact.
@Professor687112 жыл бұрын
@RedJoe10 I have a copy of it I bought in second hand book shop in London.
@BohemothWatts-vz1lc5 ай бұрын
Waltzing Matilda
@Professor687112 жыл бұрын
@GoldenBoughTrader Because its been made for adult not 10 years, where as most of the run of the mill Hollywood movies are made just for that market.
@Professor687112 жыл бұрын
The picture and sound go out of sinc half way through part 12.
@MrWave58 Жыл бұрын
06:09 This movie came out 1959. Insert tape / DVD / CD....
@cybermorsan Жыл бұрын
So. They wath a recording of the news, when reports came in about nuclear blasts. Shouldnt the broadcast have been interrupted followed by EAS message? Can't stop watching this. It freakes me out, even more than "The day after" and "Threads" did back in the days....
@RedJoe1012 жыл бұрын
@Professor6871 I got my one in a second hand shop in Cambridge.
@georgel1984113 жыл бұрын
@ObssesedNuker good point
@soeffingwhat13 жыл бұрын
@GoldenBoughTrader - Every, and I mean EVERY World Leader should be made to watch Films like this, and those who are not touched by it should be removed from Office :-)
@GEricG4 жыл бұрын
Ronald Reagan saw the film 'The Day After' back in the 80s and he recorded in his diary that it left him feeling thoroughly depressed. Hard to imagine that it didn't have an effect on policy going forward from there.
@davidrobinson34344 жыл бұрын
Rumor says that Nevil Shute, the author was displeased with the original film. Looking back on the original version - and, it is just my opinion - (for the right-wingers, I have read the novel three times}, I believe that Mr. Shute's disappointment was with the emphasis on the romance and not the premise of the horror and stupidity of nuclear war - Dr. King said he had a dream. White America murdered him because it prefers the nightmare.
@johnolive34252 жыл бұрын
You're full of shit!
@candr13 жыл бұрын
@musicalglenn We have had the ability for over 65 years and haven't done it yet, have a bit more faith ;)
@geoffck696914 жыл бұрын
I thought they might find Sarah Palin gazing at Russia from here back porch. Too bad.
@wardenphil15 жыл бұрын
Yes, no pepsi or Royal Crown products discussed in the book or shown in either movie...I wonder if the producers had a licensing pact with the Coca Cola Company.
@candr13 жыл бұрын
@anisete46 Yes the coke bottle got accidently hooked on the window shade cord when the wind blew it over durning a storm from the open window and fell over the Morse Code Key. When the wind blew through the window the bottle bobed up and down on the key at random times.
@krbosak13 жыл бұрын
@ObssesedNuker "What I am wondering is why Anchorage looks rather intact for a prime nuclear target." Maybe it was not as good as Toulon, Athens and Murmansk this time.
@SeaJay_Oceans2 жыл бұрын
12 parts until it gets to the core of the Plot ? And they fail to take the whole laptop - which would be useful working technology, once cleaned up...
@Epoxinator9 ай бұрын
How does a body freeze in a sitting position, after having taken poison?
@barbaragwenhadu46412 жыл бұрын
i like threads but it is more realistic by far
@williamdean41018 жыл бұрын
At part eleven, at 2:10, , did anyone notice the sharks above the submarine?
@capri78648 жыл бұрын
+William Dean i did 2 of them
@alexcarter88077 жыл бұрын
Looked like orcas to me
@sue16993 жыл бұрын
The Stanley Kramer film was better; although the ending wasn't true to the book.
@Professor687112 жыл бұрын
@v19d Instead a revolver if you can find one.
@Professor687112 жыл бұрын
What an idiot that captain Dwight Powers was for going into that house. If he hadn't of done that they wouldn't had to rush back to the submarine, which in the proceess caused the second officer with him to cut his leg thus contaminating himself.
@Ocelot19623 жыл бұрын
AussieRoo1 This clip has been posted for years and it's been waaaay out of synch for years. Is it possible for you to fix it? (Thank you for posting it though.)
@ThisAintNews12 жыл бұрын
that family got pwned
@wardenphil15 жыл бұрын
At 10:24, who would put a glass window in a bedroom door? This makes no sense to me.
@glens51 Жыл бұрын
Standing up in the launch????
@joojoojuice13 жыл бұрын
@RedJoe10 we must not allow a GDP gap with the reds!... and australia
@wardenphil12 жыл бұрын
@RedJoe10 Where did you here this?
@georgel1984113 жыл бұрын
any electronics should not work becase of the bombs
@HerrEllsworth13 жыл бұрын
@geoffck6969 At least that way she could flip them off.
@krbosak13 жыл бұрын
The laptop battery should be depleted long time ago.
@croutonthegreat13 жыл бұрын
I don't get it. Did the journalist commit suicide? Was that a gov't-issued suicide kit she used? How'd she get one of those?
@denniscoffey1247 Жыл бұрын
I agree!
@Nnneemo Жыл бұрын
That's wasn't from goverment stockpiles. It's maybe improvised mix.
@angloaust15753 жыл бұрын
Away from their families is not right For married men All navy vessels should be crewed by single people
@davidbrumbaugh78092 жыл бұрын
Maybe warriors should all be eunichs.
@florinivan69072 жыл бұрын
@@davidbrumbaugh7809 In theory having asexuals man the armed forces might be the best thing. Cut down on costs no more homesickness but there aren't enough asexuals around. Just the fact that everytime a servicemen dies his family receives benefits adds to the overall cost. But asexuals arere generally placed at about 1% and even fewer are able to serve and of these even fewer want to.
@MrAntoineCool11 жыл бұрын
I mean, conflict between two superpowers is serious, granted, but one simply doesn't issue to one's own citizens some pills just in case a nuclear warhead drops nearby (and I'd like to know how all the existing bunkers and other precautions would've been useless, implicated by the fact the pills were issued to begin with!). It just doesn't make any sense! Or how messed up is the world they're living in... If anyone here got any reasonable, rational explanation I'd like to hear.. sorry, read it!
@v19d12 жыл бұрын
I say it takes under a week for a fallout to reach alaska
@senhuan15 жыл бұрын
That kid has teeth larger than a rabbit.
@robtimuscron112611 ай бұрын
Audio is out of sync
@johndean49984 жыл бұрын
The script is rubbish - no professional naval officer would talk like that.