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On the Beach (1959 film)
On the Beach
is a 1959 American
black-and-white
post-apocalyptic
science fiction
drama film
from
United Artists
, produced and directed by
Stanley Kramer
, starring
Gregory Peck
,
Ava Gardner
,
Fred Astaire
and
Anthony Perkins
. The film is based on
Nevil Shute
's 1957
novel of the same name
depicting a nuclear war and its aftermath. Unlike the novel, no blame is placed on whoever started the war; it is hinted in the film that the threat of annihilation may have arisen from an accident (for example, a fault in a few vacuum tubes or transistor circuits, as in the similarly themed 1964 film
Fail-Safe
).
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