Final Picture Show Podcast Ep: 108 On The Beach (1959)

I will buy you a new life where you flowers can bloom and the world will slowly die as we drink ourselves to death before making the final choice. Tonight we kick the bucket as we visit austrialla, once again, visit the 1950s, once again, and suffer the stings and arrows of the choices of the powerful, once again. Tonight we sit down and watch On the Beach. This 50s epic is, perhaps, the first big budget hollywood post-apocayptic film and boy howdy does it have a mesage for the world. We get into the background of this film, the starkness of the message, how sad it made us, the legacy that it created, and much more.