Tonight's film from the cinema's hall of fame stars Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, 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.

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