. . "Perhaps not many of you have noticed that this movie is a land-based version of a previous film, starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner, called On the Beach (1959).There too we have a post-nuclear theme, in which all life on Earth has been wiped off the face of the planet, only to leave a few desperados\" alive, both on board of a U.S. submarine and on the shores, somewhere near Australia (the" . .