For you old movie buffs (viewing alert)

[CaptainCrunch]

Tonight at 6:00 on channel 42 (Shaw) they're showing the movie On the Beach with Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner.

This movie is one of the best cold war/nuclear doomsday movies of its time. A movie that I consider to be a classic and frightening look at mans ability to destroy himself

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053137/

[flamesfever]

Thanks Captain. I was wondering what to watch tonight. It's also on Channel 539 Starchoice - our favorite movie channel.

[flip]

is that TCM? because if so i don't get it.

Or "The Goonies" on @ 9:30 chanel 221... CLASSIC!

[flamesfever]

Originally Posted by flip

is that TCM? because if so i don't get it.

Yes 539 on Starchoice is TCM i.e. Turner Classic Movies.

Boy, that was one depressing movie. I don't think many here realize how scary things were at times during the cold war.

I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the plans set to evacuate Calgary in the event of a nuclear attack. At the time we were living in Rosscarrock. The people in our area were slated to travel to Marysville, BC, where there were supplies being stored for our survival. That scene along the Creek in the movie is probably what it would have been like, had an attack occurred.

[CaptainCrunch]

I have to say that after watching that movie, it hasn't lost its luster for me. At the time that it was made, 1959, it must have been positively terrifying to movie goers. The scene with the tea was stomach churning. The final car race, and bottle on the window depressing, and the crewman who jumped ship when they got home and was left behind was sad.

I think the most impactful scene was the fishing day when they had the kids playing, people fishing, that group of drunks singing, and you knew they were doomed.

It was a rare cold war movie that really didn't have violence in it, but was built around a remorseless and invisible enemy that had no political agenda but was caused by one.

It was a different type of cold war move then the terrifying "Day After" which showed the actual nuclear exchange and the aftermath of a dying specis.

Some interesting notes from that move

this was Frank Sinatra's first role that didn't involve dancing or comedy, nobody had every offered him a serious role before.

This was Ava Gardner's first role as a free agent actress, before that she had spend years as a MGM contract actress receiving a weekly salary and having no say in the movies that she could do or not do.

To increase the realism of the movie, Gardner wore no makeup, a rare thing in movie making.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Puxlut

Or "The Goonies" on @ 9:30 chanel 221... CLASSIC!

LOL, I didn't expect to see "On The Beach" and "The Goonies" in this thread.

[flamesfever]

Captain, I believe it was Fred Astaire, not Frank Sinatra. Other than that your summary is great. You should be in the writing business - your posts are excellent. I can certainly see why you have the red squares.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by flamesfever

Captain, I believe it was Fred Astaire, not Frank Sinatra. Other than that your summary is great. You should be in the writing business - your posts are excellent. I can certainly see why you have the red squares.

Your right it was Astaire, I had Frankie on my mind for some reason.

thanks for the rest

[SportsJunky]

I think I remember reading that Ava Gardner was Sinatra's one great love and he carried a torch for her right up to his final days. TCM is one of my favourite channels.