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Film: On the Beach (1959)

on BBC Two England

stars Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins
Stanley Kramer 's star-studded film version of Nevil Shute 's frighteningly prophetic novel of the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust.
An American submarine puts into Melbourne after the Northern hemisphere has been destroyed in a nuclear war. The fall-out is not expected to reach Australia for five months and in the meanwhile people prepare to face death each in his own way.
Producer and director Stanley Kramer

BBC Two England

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