On the Beach: The last place on Earth
"There isn't time. No time to love. Nothing to remember. Nothing worth remembering."
Mark Twain once said that when the end of the world comes, he would like to be in Cincinnati because it’s always 20 years behind the times. As a longtime central Ohioan, I appreciate the joke.1 Its corollary must be: If nuclear war occurs, it would be better to be in Australia.
That is the premise underlying the 1959 film On the Beach, in which Australia …
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