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To: ggersh who wrote (134898)8/7/2017 2:22:09 PM
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I think the haunting film "On the Beach" is an under-rated.

With most of the planet apparently already dead, Australia tracks huge clouds of fallout headed their way and issues painless "suicide tablets" or injections to each of their citizens if they prefer not to die of radiation poisoning.

In Melbourne where the film is set, increasing numbers of people indulge their various life-long dreams, like racing their cars at Melbourne's famous Sandown Motor Speedway resulting in many fiery crashes or racing along the Great Ocean Road.

After racing Fred Astaire can't bear to damage his 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza Spider, so closes the garage door, guns the engine and succumbs to carbon monoxide.

The film is a time capsule of 1950s Melbourne, although curiously many Sydney-siders apparently decide to abandon their cars on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

1950s Melbourne



Ava Gardener heads toward toward Melbourne Main Train Station, now a museum



Many Sydney residents inexplicably abandoned their cars on the Harbour Bridge



Fred Astaire off-track racing his 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza Spider



Gregory Peck's submarine crewman Lt. Sunderstrom (Harp Mcguire) investigating the dead city of San Diego CA

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