On The Beach (Episode 87) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky

Hot Date with Dan and Vicky · May 24, 2019 · 1h 7m

After the success of his 1958 film The Defiant Ones, which confronted issues of racial division, director Stanley Kramer continued on a path of making films that were socially relevant and examined the issues of the time. 1959's On The Beach was no exception. Based on the very successful novel by Australian Nevil Shute, which imagined his home country as the only place left on earth not yet suffocated by a cloud of deadly radioactive dust, On The Beach was the very first Hollywood film to shoot completely Down Under. It stars Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Athony Perkins and Fred Astaire.

Dan and…