I came from this era and I think I read the book and went to the movie.
I think I remember a love scene on a beach....no cars...raging hormonones
perhaps?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Irv Korey" <emanteno@attglobal.net>
> To: "David & Krystal Wingett" <elkhorn@megsinet.net>
> Cc: "Friend Of Triumph" <FOT@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 10:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Movie "On the Beach" Great race scene
>
>
> > At 07:22 PM 1/10/02 -0500, David & Krystal Wingett wrote:
> >
> > > GEE, What have I done!!! I slept thru this Most of this
> > >film!! Please, WHAT RACE SCENE ???? Will it be on again any time
> soon?
> > >Someone should have e-mailed me and told me to stay awake. Irv C. it
> must
> > >have been you. You must share in this some how! shi*
> > > DW
> >
> > Sorry, I'm completely out of the loop on this one. If this is the movie I
> > think it is, the only thing I remember is one of the characters
> > deliberately killing himself by crashing an E Type.
> >
> > Irv
> >
> The gist of the movie is that the nuclear war has happened, the US and USSR
> are destroyed, and the fallout is slowly spreading around the earth. Most of
> it concerns a US sub (commanded by Gregory Peck) that managed to avoid most
> of the carnage by being underwater. Now Australia is the last bastion before
> nuclear winter destroys the planet. The race in question becomes largely an
> exercise in fatalism -- nobody cares if they are going to get killed in it
> (or at least Fred Astaire doesn't) because they're all gonna die anyway. But
> there are still some neat cars in the race scenes.
>
> Good (if bleak) movie from Nevil Shute's book, a fairly common anti-war
> theme from the '60s (the same era that gave us "Fail-Safe" and "Dr.
> Strangelove").
>
> --Rocky
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