On the Beach Ending Scene

[coventrygardens]

it makes suicide under these circumstances look like a good choice, and yet they didn't address the question: "what happens to them after they commit suicide??"

[dancinkindofguy]

So where do those guys in the sub think they are going? They're just delaying the inevitable..

There is no place to go and save themselves.

[coventrygardens]

@dancinkindofguy the submariners were nostalgic. they wished to go off & die in the u.s.a. because that's where they lived. this ties in around 2:00 where Gregory Peck's character says that the men wish to get home ( to the u.s. ). in a previous scene, the submariners arrived in san francisco, & they saw that the place looked normal except that there were no humans ( i don't know where the dead bodies were ), & then one of the men dived into the bay so he could die in his home country or town.

[dancinkindofguy]

@coventrygardens Think I'd rather do in myself than go die of radiation poisoning, which is pretty slow and horrible.

[coventrygardens]

@dancinkindofguy the sub men at the end were likely planning to consume the suicide tablets once they got back to the u.s./ i think the suicidal aspect is creepy regardless of whether the person goes back to his home country in order to do it. to me, the thought of someone committing suicide is far creepier than the thought of someone dying as a result of what someone else did. furthermore, i don't think large numbers of people would commit suicide. i think most people would see it through.

[frobinhood]

@dancinkindofguy

i havnt seen the original just the tb remake - the main thing they are forgeting the amount of radition they are claiming and the fact its from nuclear warheads means they are gamma emmisions. it would take little more then a few hours to kill a human being.

granted the cyanide pill would be quick and painless nd the better option though

[coventrygardens]

@frobinhood i wonder where the bodies of dead animals were. surely they would have died as well. even if hounds and cats were in houses, there should have been bodies of wild birds lying around. furthermore, i doubt large numbers of people would commit suicide. people generally try to stick it out to the end. the scenes of them committing suicide are more eerie to me than are the scenes where people die from the radiation and bombs.

[frobinhood]

@coventrygardens

yeah your right about the birds - idk maybe some "surviors" took the birds and ate em before they finally died - who knows lol.

[frobinhood]

@coventrygardens

the dead bodies were inside the houses because just like the aussies the yanks took the suicide pills

[coventrygardens]

@frobinhood but i thought the u.s. got smashed right away, so people there would have died very soon after the bombs went off. well, maybe that's what happened in certain parts of the u.s., whereas people in other parts of the u.s. had time to kill themselves after the bombs went off. by the way, the u.s. generally doesn't use the word "yank" or "yankee". in the u.s., those terms refer to a certain kind of u.s. citizen, not to each u.s. citizen. some americans are yank(ees), and some aren't.

[mrjublife]

@Texasjim2007 this is a what if book it was during the cold war and that created the.nuclear war scene of the. one bomb any bomb that gose of will start the nuclear holocaust

[Texasjim2007]

Survival rule number one: never take advice on what you need to do to survive from anyone who believes the human race is overpopulated because they want you to die not survive so they'll tell you to do stupid things to get yourself killed. The only people you can trust are people who have material self-interest in your survival like military retirees who need you to live long and prosper to pay our pensions.

[Texasjim2007]

There were Japanese survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one man was even miraclously able to survive both. The leftwing unilateral disarmament propaganda machine Stanley Kramer was just a greedy Communist collaborator with wants us to believe that they're are our brothers but what they want is population reduction so they can rob graves like George Soros made money doing collaborating with the Nazis robbing Jews and only dislike atomic bombs because that'd' destroy the property they want

[Texasjim2007]

This movie is utterly nonsense on multiple levels, First of all there was never any nuclear war because America was never stupid enough to unilaterally disarm and let Communists kill ua like 20 million unarmed Ukrainians. Secondly Dr. Strangelove's plan for underground shelter

survival makes way more sense no matter how difficult than leftwing cyanide koolaid solutions.

[baghend]

@Texasjim2007 You don't remember Mutually Assured Destruction? I think when the radioactive dust clears, you won't want to be around. The earth will regenerate over time, however. We'll be just another extinct species that shit in its own nest.

We had such promise but we're collectively so stupid.

[frobinhood]

@Texasjim2007

you gota look at it like this - although i was like why not just go into shelters? one thing you gota remember is if you were in that position would you wanna go underground knowing you could never return to the serface? the global scale of the fall out makes chernobyl look like the abomb testing zone outside adelade.

[dminrunyon]

the sadddest ending to a movie I've ever watched

[fourclaws]

one of the best endings in hollywood history, so bleak!

[libraloveX]

Half a century later after seeing this film, I'm having the same feeling of impending doom. Radiation soiling the oceans from Japan's leak, the constant oppressive heat and drought killing our livestock and crops, only to be followed by tornadoes, floods and hurricanes destroying what's left. Is there still time... brother?

[AlexB1001]

@libraloveX

Um... yes, there is. The oceans are not getting soiled. And there were heat, tornadoes, floods and hurricanes many years before you were born, and there will be many years after.

[crotchboots]

scared the hell out of me...are we are still out of the shadow of it?



[krbosak]

Another reality correction: anybody coming in nuclear submarine or wearing a military uniform of any nation would most probably be stoned to death by the locals, the streets would be probably filled with abandoned goods, cars anything due to civil disorder so one woulndt drive a car faster than 20mph. There would be probably many ships travelling around the world at the time and they would survive well. Not accepting what is the long-term situation, most of them would become pirates.

[adamcrookedsmile]

only a small percentage would survive even a modest nuclear war as it takes only a few dozen wareheads to trigger a nuclear winter lasting decades, if not an ice age.

When the food supply disappears, so does most of humanity.

[Milewskige]

1. What a depressing movie!

2. The Australian "accents" were for the most part, unconvincing.

3. At least, "There is still time, brother."

[altairateu]

@Milewskige depressing book too.... i just readed it...

[SuperFoxhole1]

Mon ami es la vida the road is long with many a winding turn surely i will pass this way again Vaya con dios

[CatRaptor1]

Tres Tragique! Don't be gone, long; You'll be missed!! Twitter is so ... frenetic! I'll be here. ~ >,^.^,<

[LetItBeFormerlyX]

I have proposed how it might be traveling to the stars and fixing the

paralyzed might be very simple.

We simply have to graduate from class.

No spookiness. No limitations on anyone's fun so long as it

is allowing of freedom, equality, b/sisterhood (love.)

No scapegoating. No arrogance. Then consider the meaning and

look for clues otherwise impossible to see.

If you blow it you give up so so much.

[LetItBeFormerlyX]

For those religious my personal self-assessments and aims as to this

process speak for themselves. I have nothing to hide and try being as

open and explicit as possible.

I am much out of character. I come from a cluster of mixed families with at

least one funny event. I think there have been more.

For those feeling insulted or scientifically repulsed:

see through the failings, uncover a possible combined proof

in science - morality - history, and consider possible tip-offs

I've explained.

[LetItBeFormerlyX]

I have proposed Mary Lincoln, Judy Garland, David Wu and

likely Brian Wilson, and I would presume others,

should be treated with an expansive view of psychiatry.

I've taken expansive views of science, religion and psychiatry.

I've taken an expansive view of myself: presuming for better or worse self-competent for this

(father was a psychiatrist--) constantly self-assessing

I hope this will amount to a positive hypothetical at the

very very least.

I know you DO need to end corruption.

[LetItBeFormerlyX]

Please understand David Wu and the finding of the medical review board that approved Patch Adams' obtaining his medical license while proclaiming there is nothing wrong with excessive happiness. Wu referred to "false Klingons" and is for me confirmed aware of a combined history - morality REVELATION that is confirmed in SCIENCE and backward again. Wu and Adams should be our leaders. de Broca advised same in goo . gl / CHTdl goo . gl / MQFdx sites.google.com/site/holychan­ges

[LetItBeFormerlyX]

Youth: you have to save your future NOW. Oceans Dying.

Frauds, scapegoaters, arrogance, ego defense, people afraid of people resembling prior obnoxious people who had earlier transferred their fears, needs to pacify, needs to scapegoat for profit.

Only scapegoaters angry w message/ Never

a reason for any good person to know fear.

Rlgn a book of clues tied w history. Concepts of retribution modern, made up.

Earth can die or u can take tip-offs, grow fast!

sites.google.com/site/holychan­ges

[tannerwaterbury]

Sooo.... lemme get this straight: Instead of trying to find a way to survive and build a shelter from the Radioactive Fallout, they instead decide to give up ALL hope and kill themselves off?!

[pedBACH]

this movie is depressing as fuck yo

[sitithesecond]

bad casting, they should have cast Aussie actors instead of Yanks

[MrM0nkeyman]

The cut from 1:26 to 1:27 just sounds too harsh to me.

[radicright]

it's too late. the die is already cast. the end is near. I don't work anymore. there is no point. no need to start projects, or look for girls. occasionally I try to escape via gambling or drinking. but I wake up ever morn with a renewed sense of dread. but, I don't even know how it is going to end.

[TxKimberly]

Sad and melancholy? Yes, there is no question about it. This movie, and others like it ("Fail Safe") were warnings - THIS is what you are flirting with and this is how it all will end if the human race doesn't pull its head out of its backside.

[pArTyBOE82]

@TxKimberly not only sad and melancholy..some parts funny,most parts sad yes but also this movie was very erotic too..ava gardner and that other woman were just smoking hot in here..my favorite kramer movie is guess whos goming dinner but this is second favorite then

[wingingerd]

日本の福島では、無人の街に横断幕が。この映画の最後と同じよう­に。「原発で街の発展」と書いてある。

[WyllowMorrigan]

@ozmusic657 a true grasp of language. But you're right, Mr Underarm. Don't give up, bro!

[biliken01]

まさに今の東京だよ。

[psychoticlife]

Watch this on me with Willie Nelson's "All of Me" Playing... its magical!!!!

[psychoticlife]

Watch this on mute with Willie Nelsons "Take All of Me'" playing... its magical!

[GarthanSaal444]

The empty city is to clean. It needed some Terminator type scenes, like skulls littering crumbling buildings.

Anyway, they shoud;ve made a movie about "Earth Abides" instead. It was a better story.

Who put that "There is still time, brother" banner up there? Desmond from Lost?

[nzjafa]

@GarthanSaal444 Why the hell would skulls (or crumbling buildings for that matter) be there? Do you even know what this story is about?

[TomBarrister]

@GarthanSaal444 The banner was put there earlier (in the story) by the Salvation Army, inferring that there was still time to be saved (i.e. repent).

[deadkennedys555]

@TomBarrister Being a descendant of 'The Sapper' and 'Wipers' (the WWI soldier statues you see) it is a final, clandestine anti-war message hidden in the wider social dysfunction that Shute's novel was one of the first attempts to reconcile in 1959 in the context of armaments annihlation in suicidal Christian American/Soviet atheist corporatism. Ypres had already taught an earlier generation this. My gassed ancestor calls from his grave and we say again: "There is STILL time, Brothers & Sisters"

[Chantinelle666]

There's still time, brother.

Don't let it happen to us

[robphilll22]

In 1967 I watched this epic movie 16 times in a one week period.Hoping that the ending would be different even though i would see the same banner waving in the radioactive wind,(THERE"S STILL TIME BROTHER...)Watched this show on the Million Dollar Movie on Channel 9 WOR-TV were they showed the same movie over and over.

[michaelnutt]

Is anyone thinking about what is going on in Japan? As the balloon bombs released from mainland Japan showed during World War II, the jet stream carries material from there to the mainland United States in just a few days. The balloon bombs reached Farmington, Michigan (near Detroit) in about 4-5 days. Now, imagine a total meltdown and the subsequent release of a major amount of nuclear material into the atmosphere. Japan's problem becomes OUR problem (and the world's) VERY quickly!

[dr37sam]

Its been nice,Dwight Lionel, Its been everything.

[DavidYakima]

I just watched this on Turner Classic Movie's... Great Movie...sad though... At the end, If I were Capt. Towers(Greg Peck) I would have stayed with Moria(Ava) and let his men go... Food for thought!!!! I recomend it for everyone to see!!

[eric777100763]

will never happen. Yahshua will save us despite ourselves!!

[ytuseruber]

@eric777100763 I hear echoes of Armstrongism...

[fornit]

I hope this movie will become a reality.

[NeophyteOneable]

@fornit gtfo YT emofag

[fornit]

@NeophyteOneable I LOL! ;)

[SoCalGal52]

God, I love the last friggin' scene in this movie. Ava looking out to the ocean for one last glimpse of Greg before he goes (down) under is so sensitive, sad and devastating that it brings tears to my eyes. Of course the playing of Waltzing Matilda at this particular part is so sweeping and beautiful, it blows me away . Ava looks beautiful here and the sadness in her eyes and face says it all and Greg gazing out. I wonder how her character ended up killing herself? Outstanding movie but so sad.

[HerrEllsworth]

Even if the fallout was all-encompassing as it's depicted in the movie, the Australian government still could have done something to ensure a few people could survive the ensuing radiation. There are numerous salt-mines in Australia that are deep and very spacious. A "colony" could be set up down there much like how Dr. Strangelove described. In short, they had nothing to lose in trying.

[ScipioAfricanusI]

I understand that the movie was well received when it was released. To me this means that the public then had good taste and knew that a war would be the effective end of life on this planet. I think this speaks well of the American people (at least then).

[Ran2004]

@lewisner It's been like 9 months since I've commented on this... Why are you still replying to me?

Ok. First of all, the technology they had in the 1960s was insufficient to build a "geodesic dome" with all the trappings to keep civilization alive. Secondly, what about the Chernobyl disaster? A nuclear meltdown which burned for days isn't really the same thing as a cobalt bomb being detonated. What are you trying to argue?

[elcamman50]

We had to read the novel in high school in the sixties. It made an impression on me and most who read it. Having spent junior high in the fallout shelter in the school basement during the cuban crisis in 1962. The movie did take some liberties, but it has kept pretty close to the core of the novel. It still has in impact today. When, and if the time comes you will want to be with the ones you love. That is all that will matter. Believe me.

[skatepunkzero]

Did Jim Jones write this movie? Crappy Ending. Alas Babylon should have been made into a movie, not this.

[hebneh]

This movie made a huge impression on me when I saw it on TV in the early 1960s as a little kid - especially the shots of the deserted city at the very end.

[JadednBitter]

One of the most heartbreaking and sobering movies I've ever seen. The film took liberites with the novel, but I loved it nonetheless.

[chasefukuoka61]

This is so so powerful. I was just talking elsewhere with someone about the song Morning Dew, which was inspired by this film. Thanks so much for posting this. I put together a tribute mixing these scenes in with the song, for anyone interested.

[KNS1996DFS]

Thank God they didn't have the actors affect Australian accents. That would've been too much to take.

[graidstin]

I love this movie so much especially the ending, it's one of my favorites and is definitely my favorite black and white film. Had never even heard of it till I saw it on TCM last year.

[petclark1]

Ever since 9-11 I've come to assume that this is pretty close to how the world will, one day, end.

Have a Great Day!

[fosseseptique]

Churchill said that Mrs Minevar, an oscar winning film made to encourage the US to help the British destrroy the Nazis, (but sadly not the Commies), was worth an armoured division.

This film showed us what the world would have been like after the 3rd war,and as a result made it less likely...in fact may have stopped it happening! some acheivement....great book too..Neville Schute...I dont know why the aussies have so many good writers...guess thre's nothing else to do there! ;-)

[royalcourtier]

@fosseseptique Neville Schute was a British writer, not an Australian!

[Professor6871]

@royalcourtier Yeah but he finished his day downunder.

[farmerne]

This movie must have been eerily prescient to the people in the late 1950's-early 60's. The movie was set in the then-future year of 1964. In the immediate years after the move came out, the Cold War got close to becoming hot on several occasions. The Russians exploded the largest H-bomb (the Tsar Bomb at 50+MT) in 1961. That was followed by the Berlin Wall crisis. And then in 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis, where---as later learned--the world came VERY close to a nuclear war.

[zooeyhall]

For a movie made in the 1950's, this was truly outstanding. Unlike most movies of the era, it pulled no punches. And a highly literate script. Fred Astaire was outstanding in it.

I am old enough to remember the Cold War and fallout shelters, and the "duck and cover" drills in school. It may be hard for people today to imagine, but the events in this movie were a REAL possiblity back then.

[Popcornroman]

@zooeyhall Have you seen Threads? It's just as haunting. Compared to this however, It's child's play.

[gmakepiece]

Hey, it was no picnic On The Beach! The end of the world as we know it will come and is coming, via the never dead zombie of resurgent Marxist left ecofascist control freak totalitarian force and Islamofacism. No really. OTB was a groovy old film too. Toodlle ooh. Colonel Neville.

[PeterFormaini]

One of the saddest and most melancholy film endings in movie history. Heartbreaking and haunting......

[orangeturnpike]

Just finished reading the book. Makes you appreciate the world as it became, rather than what it could have been. If you liked this, I'd suggest reading 'one Second After'.

[achoiusa]

This is how some diaster movies should end - no one survives. Bravo.

[ToughXArmy69]

Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck are superb in this movie.

The camera loved gorgeous Ava, as it did Lana Turner, Kim Novak, and the incomparable Marilyn Monroe, and those ladies were far better screen actresses than given credit.

Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner were lifelong friends. Peck co starred in his great career with Jennifer Jones, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Greer Garson, Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren, and the sublime Audrey Hepburn. Lucky Man.

[starguy2718]

So, apparently, the world SOMEHOW survived the projected 1964 "Doomsday", that this movie depicted.

Substitute "global warming hoax" for this film's "imminent nuclear holocaust", and you will come to the conclusion that our current boogeyman was all designed to line the pockets of Al Gore, et al.

FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!

[tumsabai1]

Nuke them till they glow bright Orange!!!!

[vboredv]

It is possible to move unzerground! With a proper ratio of 10 females to 1 male, we shall be able to return to current gross national product within 20 years! Of course the most fertile and attractive women must be selected!

[MrClandestine1]

World class antiwar motion picture, timeless.....

[riceboy1701e]

And a young Anthony Perkins before he became famous as Norman Bates in "Psycho".

A classic!

[riceboy1701e]

I like the scene in which Fred Astaire gets into the race car, starts her up, and smiles as he breathes his last...

[riversidefan2]

Never read the book, find the movie somewhat tedious except for the magical moments found in this segment. The combination of images music while Ava Gardner stands on the shore watching the submarine sail away forever are haunting. The shot where the camera pans down from the sub and shows it thru the windshield of the sports car is magnificent camera work. Applause to the filmmakers.

[irish89055]

tedious really?..... sheeezzz.. guess you like it for the race scenes which they filmed at riverside raceway.

[irish89055]

the most troubling, chilling scene of any movie made.... bar NONE....

[irish89055]

just saw the remake and that is just as chilling, more so actually..

[SupaBriMan26]

@irish89055 It's chilling because at the beginning of the movie there's a scene of the city streets of Melbourne bustling with people, and the streets are clean too. You almost get the sense just by looking at Australia, that the nuclear war wasn't that bad. But than the movie progresses and it's just heartbreaking to see what happens at the end.

[irish89055]

@SupaBriMan26 heartbreaking is a big understatement. I'm not sure the streets of Melbourne would have been as tidy as they made it at the end. To admend my comments above I would say watch the remake as it's just as troubling...I prefer this one as the score is incredible..

[SupaBriMan26]

@irish89055 If you haven't read the book, do so. It's also very good. Good is another understatement. But honestly, the book and the movie(s) should be required viewing/reading for any elected official or military personel, in any country who is in charge of launching nuclear weapons. If they have no emotional response to either, they should be deemed unfit for command/office.

[irish89055]

@SupaBriMan26 yes, i will read the book. I think there would have been numerous subs showing up in Austrailia, southern South America would also still be surviving, maybe so in the book.

[SupaBriMan26]

@irish89055 Actually, South America, and South Africa have people still living in them, and Australia gradually begins to lose contact with both before the end. However, for some reason, there's only one Submarine that shows up in Australia. There are many differences in the book than in both versions of the movie. The US sub is called The Scorpion, Dr. Osbourne is in his mid 30's and Moira's cousin, and Moira is in her mid 20's. If you're a parent, (I am) the end chapter is heartbreaking.

[joesphx19]

@SupaBriMan26

That is the great tragedy of this film. As realistic as the finger of doom ready to touch all of earth, the wrong people will be moved by viewing this film. WWII aside as an arguement, none of the world's leaders that are inhumane in regard to ever using nuclear weapons will ever see this movie. Ask if the leaders of NK, Iran, Pakistan, China care if they use the weapon to further their ends. Now there is hope in that if we reach the people of those countries.

[AJDual]

Good movie, bullshit premise though. 100% of the world's nuclear arsenal can't kill everyone. Lethal fallout burns out in about two weeks, enough to make you sick, in about a month. Famine from worldwide economic disruption is what will kill the most people. If you've got food, and stay out of the fallout for a month, you'll live.

[Ran2004]

The book actually states that the type of nuclear weapons used were cobalt, which has a fallout that lasts for 5-10 years.

[grahamkeithtodd]

@Ran2004 try about 90 years...

[Ran2004]

Nah. The fallout on a cobalt device would have a half-life of around 5.26 years meaning that in 10 - 11 years 3/4 of the radiation would have dissipated. At 16 years it would be almost 88% gone. Not to mention that the fallout wouldn't be uniform, etc... It would probably take 90 years for it to be totally gone, but within 20 years the planet would be livable.

[grahamkeithtodd]

@Ran2004 maybe but the premise of this film is that the radiation come a few years after the atomic war...(yes i know it's flawed but i put that down to artistic licence/ignorance)

[Ran2004]

Oh, sure it's artistic license. It's kind of absurd to think that human beings would ever be able to totally wipe themselves out with cobalt bombs.

But if they did manage to coat the atmosphere with a 16 year fallout it would wipe people out. 10-15 years is too long to live in a fallout shelter.

[grahamkeithtodd]

@Ran2004 so damn true old son so very damn true!

[thelearner60]

The only place I could see yourself surviving that long underground, would be a deep cave that had been hermetically celled from the outside world. Even so you'd have no where to grow food once the cans food ran out.

[thelearner60]

@Ran2004 Sounds to me very much like the legendary Dooms Day device that was refered to in Kubrick's 'Doctor Strange Love. A giant Soviet nuclear bomb with enough cobalt radiation to do just that ripe out the entire human race. Apparently in theory there is no limit to how big you can make a nuclear bomb.

[lewisner]

@Ran2004 "10-15 years is too long to live in a fallout shelter." Better than taking an L-Pill. Better than becoming extinct.Imagine a geodesic dome with space to grow plants and a few animals.A scrubbing system for air intake.Plus storage for seeds of most types of vegetation.And jigsaws for when you got bored.

[lewisner]

@Ran2004 There's a video here where a woman takes you round Chernobyl. Apparently if you stay on the road you are safe but the grass is still full of radiation and the houses are deadly.

[haggidubious]

Thanks for upping this, great movie.

[DisasterFlicks]

@WyllowMorrigan well what do you suggest they do in a situation like that?

[WyllowMorrigan]

Well I can't speak for the aussies, but I know the kiwis would keep fighting for survival, whether or not there was any point. That is my biggest problem with the book and both versions of the movie. If you read the book, there is a willingness of the Australian government to just condition people to accept the 'end of the world.' It made for a bleak ending and its not representative of human nature. Human beings are survivalists and will either fight or flight. The film/book portrays no....

[vonBeavis]

The point of the movie is not to keep fighting at any cost until the radiation eventually catches up. The point is that there are no winners in a nuclear war, that the power exists for mankind to completely eliminate itself from the face of the earth. In the book and in the movie, the Aussies and American sub crew know the end is coming, yet they still cling to hope until there is no more, and THEN they're ready for "that cup of tea." In the book, even the Kiwis eventually drink from the cup.

[thelearner60]

The point is if there was one get vaporized in the blast.

[thelearner60]

Shute's novel did expect the Australians would go quitely into the night so to speak. But what else could you do if the situation was that hopeless and there was nowhere else to escape too, from all that descending radiation than take suicide pill and then lay down?

[WyllowMorrigan]

(continued) refugees or even a willingness to construct shelter against the fallout

[thelearner60]

@WyllowMorrigan What for decades and decades come on be serious you would need too grow huge amount of food to survive for that long and that wouldn't be possible in those circumstances of coalbolt radiation.

[lewisner]

@DisasterFlicks They could have figured something out.Apparently vegetation was growing in Hiroshima a matter of months after the bomb.

[eric777100763]

@DisasterFlicks Make your way south!

[midway27272727]

@WyllowMorrigan Hi, ..not alot of options there..lol

[alphade10]

@WyllowMorrigan It's not exactly like they had a choice in the matter. Ego and pride destroyed the world.

[irish89055]

@alphade10 yes the ego and pride of evil communistic dictators which still plague the Earth...

[tend60]

@WyllowMorrigan. In six words you showed how uneducated and small-minded you are. Now go back to your trailer.

[Spitfirebird]

@WyllowMorrigan Says the Kiwi.

[pissedoffdude87]

@WyllowMorrigan Ever heard of the kokoda trail fuck stick? Read up on that shit and then say it's typical of aussies to "give up"

[WyllowMorrigan]

@pissedoffdude87  No surprise. Aussie, right? Go bowl an underarm.

[pissedoffdude87]

@WyllowMorrigan Oh! so that's what this is about hahaha!

[Youg1]

@WyllowMorrigan arse

[ozmusic657]

@WyllowMorrigan since when do australians give up you dumb fuck

[sitithesecond]

@WyllowMorrigan not a lot else they can do is there?

[gclure]

He tosses the screwdriver away as is to say 'fuck it' .

[HansRNL63]

Thank you for posting. If I watch this movie, something is completly out of sync. Ava Gardner is much too old!

In the book, her character is a young girl.

I liked the book, but this is difficult, also, because in the book, the character shows behaviour typical of a young girl.

[thesab]

What some are missing in their observations is that despite the movie being a bit dated in presentation and acting, what is so striking is the futility of life near the end displayed people who for the most part went out with dignity. That is the quiet horror of this cautionary tale. I think that in reality, unbelievable chaos would reign in most parts of the world and that would be horrific just the same, for it will mean that humanity did not learn a thing in all of time.

[thelearner60]

@thesab Well the updated 2000 version hinted to that chaos where they showed looting and general lawlessness Melbourne, just before the fallout got too the city. In this there was none of that at all. Even so the acting is brilliant which in the TV minni series is patchy.

[mlaura40s]

I thought that movie totally sucked... there's no excitement, just boring & stupid..

[anisete46]

wussy ending for Julian compared with Australian series with Bryan Brown who went out in flames....

[5678simon]

classic

[dcmgooge]

What a great movie. One of my favorites.

[eric777100763]

Apparently gregory peck made her QUITE happy those last days!! ROFL!!

[eric777100763]

I can dig dying in the race car versus smooching some chick and going to sea in a sub!!! LOL!!

[eric777100763]

Wont happen that way!! This isnt the end!!

[shhhotput]

This movie is one of my absolute favorites. I saw it on TV when I was about 10. It has haunted me for over 40 years. I saw it again on TCM about a year ago. MAGNIFICENT!

[wardenphil]

Same here. I was 15 and channel surfing (all 13 channels!!!) on a lazy saturday morning. I tuned in at the San Francisco scene. Not having seen the first part of the movie, the end especially had an impact on me. I remember going outside for a breath of fresh air. Alone under a cloudless early winter sky (which looked disturbingly like the San Diego scene), it was easy to imagine that this movie was playing out for real in my own neighborhood. I pray that this shall be forever fiction.

[pepperytime]

Amazing scene- I saw this when the movie came out & I never forgot it- read the book if you can.

[normwebs]

I have just seen this clip. I, too, saw the film when it was first released. It is so moving, and the use of 'Watzing Matilda' in this way was inspirational.

Thank you for the reminder.

[DMaustrap]

Thanks for the Upload. This a powerful film. Great score.

"To a blind, blind world"

[orley55]

As a former naval officer and now as an actor and producer I salute the great acting in this powerful movie that allows us to see clearly the joy of new love and the brevity of life.

[jamesrussell91]

Does anyone else think Anthony Perkins kind of looks like Sonny-Bill Williams? If he was like, "Oh hey bru"

[judygenefan]

This is such a sad, but wonderful and beautifully acted film. Thanks for posting this moving scene.

[DC322]

It reminds me of 28 Days Later where London was a virtual ghost town and the main character Jim was looking for anyone alive saying, "Hello."

[JackSzwergold]

Except in this film, they are all dead. One of the most horrific films ever.