I’m watching “On the Beach” with Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Anthony Perkins, and Fred Astaire (!). Great flick with Astaire’s dramatic debut and Ava Gardner sooo intriguing. Quite a cast, but a lot less “Waltzing Matilda” would have been welcome.
In the closing days after a worldwide nuclear war. there is a scene in downtown Melbourne. The only car is abandoned and a passerby prods it’s flapping door with his cane. Everyone is walking, riding horseback/carriage, bicycling or in streetcars. Evidently gas was no longer available but “electric trains” still ran to the near and far 'burbs and with the trolleys probably powered from a nuclear plant because radiation was sapping people’s will to mine coal or do anything else.
And of course the memorable scene of newspapers blowing down the empty strrets.
The movie was so sad but also presciently green.
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