I live in Seaford, Victoria, near the Mornington Peninsula in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. On the Beach was filmed (and set in the original novel by Nevil Shute) in Frankston and surrounds. The beach scenes were filmed at Canadian Bay Beach in Mt Eliza (not far from here). I think the Waltzing Matilda scene was filmed around Langwarrin. I don't know if you know but On the Beach was a science fiction movie about the end of the world. The premise was that nuclear war had made the atmosphere in the Northern hemisphere radioactive, and that radioactivity was slowly spreading, a pall of toxic atmosphere spreading to snuff out all life on Earth. Melbourne was to be one of the last places left to die. So yeah, this was a cheery film!
I'd say some of the river scenes were in a studio until it panned out, then it looks like the Yarra River up in the Yarra Vally. My mother was in the bicycle scene down Elizabeth St Melbourne.
"The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing) with one's belongings in a "matilda" (swag) slung over one's back. The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker, or "swagman", making a drink of billy tea at a bush camp and capturing a stray jumbuck (sheep) to eat."
The swagman's name was Samuel Haugstetter, a shearer who lost his job during the shearers strike of 1894, he stole a sheep and when confronted by the police, committed suicide. The billabong near Winton in Queensland is quite a tourist attraction.
Most states in Australia require individuals who undertake recreational fishing within their jurisdiction to obtain a license in New South Wales, Western Australia, Tasmania, Victoria. To my knowledge you do not require a licence in Queensland, Northern Territory, and South Australia. Note that in all jurisdictions you DO NEED to comply with the relevant state and territory recreational fishing rules and regulations, including species, bag and size limits, seasonal closures, gear restrictions and licence requirements.
On the Beach was set in Melbourne and actually filmed in Melbourne. Ava Gardner is reputed to have said that Melbourne is the perfect place to film a movie about the end of the world. When you think about Melbourne (and Australia) in the late 50's I can't really argue with the sentiment!
A commonly held belief Phil except that it wasn't Ava it was a reporter (I think from Sydney) who actually said it. However, I do agree with the sentiment! Melbourne back then really was "a quaint place".
Hi the film was filmed on location in Melbourne and Victoria the same as the book written by Neville chute which was set in Melbourne. I am not sure whether I have spelt the author's name correctly. Melbourne was still unaffected by the nuclear fall out of world war three. When the submarine visited LA it was actually Geelong oil refinery in Victoria.
I haven't seen the film but all I know as a lot of the film was shot around the Frankston area. One thing I do know is that Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner had dinner at my local pub (Dava Hotel Mt.Martha) one night while filming.
The mere notion of Waltzing Matilda as a national anthem is hilarious. A classic Aussie song, yes, absolutely, but an anthem... HA! It's a song about a homeless man that moves about from place to place sleeping rough, who steals a sheep to bbq on a campfire, gets found with it by the authorities, and evades capture by taking himself out of the mortal realm by throwing himself into a billabong and promptly drowning; to then haunt the billabong by singing, "Who'll come a-waltzing matilda with me?" I completely agree that it's not a romantic song, but the way it was put into the background of the movie did enhance the scene very well, in a sense that the couple were with each other and had their full attention on each other despite some chaos going on around them. I'd never heard of least of all seen any of the movie until now.
Hi Katlin this movie was filmed in 1958 or 59 but it was set in the future of 1964 and filmed in around Melbourne my Mum was studying to be a nurse at The Queen Victoria Hospital in the city and they filming outside the hospital for a couple of days
"Waltzing Matilda" is a little old-fashioned. "I Still Call Australia Home" might be more popular these days! "On the Beach" was filmed in Victoria. The fact that Gregory Peck is the lead actor indicates that it was made for American audiences, not Australian. The endless singing of Waltzing Matilda is a cliche -- a bit like showing kangaroos in every scene -- to tell American audiences "we" are in Australia. It is an apocalyptic movie about the end of the world -- seriously. In the movie and in the novel, Melbourne is the last place on earth to perish after nuclear war has destroyed the Northern Hemisphere -- and the fallout is drifting south. This is romance at the end of the world.
Now, you need to watch the whole film, and whilst superficially it is romantic, it is more about expressing love when you know your lives are about to end. I’d recommend you also watch the Australian version with Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward from 2000. The version is much more Aussie. Better still read the book. Then I’d recommend A Town Like Alice. Nevil Shute was a brilliant story teller. I have a full collection of NSN books.
The film came out in the late '50s or early '60s - I vaguely remember going to see it at the local cinema in Bankstown when it was released here, although I have since seen it on TV many moons ago. One scene I do remember is the car race, filmed at Philip Island before the circuit was refurbished into the great track it is today. There was also a tele-movie made in either the '70s or '80s, from memory, which fairly closely followed the original story. Regarding fishing, I have no interest in the pastime but I did hear or read somewhere that you need a NSW licence if you're fishing from the Victorian side of the Murray River, as the state border is actually the left bank so the whole river (up to the SA border) is in NSW.
I can't remember the exact date, but Ava Gardiner came to the country town I lived in at the time and had a meal in the local cafe'. About half the town was standing outside watching. I wasen't there, but everyone was talking about it.
the romantic poignancy of that "Waltzing Matilda" scene is that the Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner characters have found each other just at a time when the world (civilisation at least) is due to come to an end in a short few months when the nuclear fallout reachest the last safe haven on Earth- Australia.
I had a bad introduction to fishing as a little girl. Dad took my best friend and I down to a crowded beach to go fishing. Of course he didn't catch anything, my best friend wound up crushing dead jellyfish with her feet. We were bored out of our minds. I wouldn't mind giving it another try, if my instructor took me to a really good spot.
I love Gregory Peck and have of course heard of On the Beach but I haven't seen it and didn't realise it was an Australian based movie. This has definitely piqued my interest. Btw... commiserations for yesterday Kaitlyn. Hope you had a great day anyway.
I saw the movie ON THE BEACH when I was a young teenager and all it did was scare the shit out of me , nuclear Armageddon and everyone dying (real romantic I don't think so)Walsing Matilda has always been for me a song about a swagman (a hobo) carrying his swag , his possessions in a bag or bundle called a Matilda who steals a jumbuck (a sheep) and gets caught by the troopers ( cops) gets away and commits suicide by jumping tnto the Billabong (part of a river) and is never heard of again .The song was used in just about every Aussie movie in the old days more the tune that the actual lyrics along with apic a picture of a Koala and the call ofa Kookaburra , talk about stereotypes .
Where was On the Beach filmed in Australia? The film was shot in Berwick, then a town outside Melbourne, and Frankston, described in the film as 45 minutes away from Melbourne. The scene where Peck meets Gardner as she arrives from Melbourne by rail was filmed on platform #1 of Frankston railway station, now rebuilt. On the Beach (1959 film) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org › wiki › On_the_Beach_(1959...
You should check out Dusty Esky. It's a mangled Aussie name for the famous Russian novelist Feodor Dostoyevsky. It's a male choir from Mullumbimbi in Queensland. They sing Russian songs in Russian and none of them speak the language. Just a bunch of blokes in the local area. They were invited to Russia for the Red Square parade but Covid turned up and put a sock in it. They are fabulous.👍
The first 30 minutes of Wall-E is silent and romantic like this, believe it or not of an animated movie! The tune to waltzing matilda is so good it would make a fantastic anthem... especially when instruments play it. But the lyrics aren't National Anthem material at all. I would love an anthem change, And I used to want new lyrics set to the the tune of Waltzing Matilda. Now I would like "I am Australian" as the anthem, with the last verse and chorus sung as the usual short form at medal ceremonies etc.
Hello, Kaitlyn. I'd recommend borrowing "On the Beach' (1959 version) from your library, or buying a copy. It's a well made, well acted film, although with a very bleak story. Back story: author Nevil Shute hated the film, feeling that producer Stanley Kramer had bastardized his book. In particular, he felt that the scene you showed, at the country hotel, wherein it is pretty clear that Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner are going to connsumate their relationship, was totally inappropriate, that Peck's character would have remained true to the memory of his dead wife. A gentleman in Melbourne, Paul Hagl, has produced two videos for TH-cam, depicting the filming locations of On the Beach, then and now. You might also ask him about an excellent book about the filming, "When Hollywood Came to Melbourne'.
i was told that the term was used by what Americans would call bums. In the 1920s men would move around looking for work they would put the sleeping blankets wrapped i0n there backs and they would be sleeping with matilda to night.
Waltzing Matilda isn’t a romantic song. The On The Beach was filmed in Australia and when Ava Gardner came here it was a big deal. The film itself was about the eradication of humanity and some parts of Australia weren’t affected. You just have to watch it, the story was by an Australian author Neville Shute some of it they got right and the other stuff they were so of the mark.
It's a movie about the end of the world after a nuclear attach one of only a few books that I have read had to do it as a school project early sixties if I remember
I really like On the Beach. It's sad but moving. A good advertisement for nuclear weapons control. Waltzing Matilda is kind of the unofficial national anthem and almost was the official one. There was a plebiscite (national poll) held to determine the national anthem. The anthem at the time was God Save the Queen, which was kind of weird, since Australia has been independent of the UK since 1901 (although the monarch of the UK is still our head of state). One of the options was the tune of Waltzing Matilda with different words, I think (can't find what the words were on Google). It came second. I live in Victoria. We only need a fishing licence for inland waterways, I think. Don't need one for fishing in the sea. The film was shot in Australia. The beach scenes were at Frankston, a Melbourne suburb (probably a separate town in those days). The fishing scene was shot at the Steavenson River, Marysville, Victoria. There is a guy who has done some in depth videos, returning to the exact sites of the filming of On the Beach: th-cam.com/video/BX1fAY-zYsM/w-d-xo.html, th-cam.com/video/fZ4PzwvuXsQ/w-d-xo.html. We recently stayed at a pub: the Caledonian Inn in Robe, South Australia. It is a lovely old (1858, if I remember correctly) limestone building and has rooms on the first floor (second floor if you are American) but we stayed in a lovely stone cottage out the back. Something went wrong with your audio at 9:12, Kaitlyn. The bit where the guy with the good voice sings about the swagman's ghost is pretty sad, because they realise that they and everyone they know will soon be ghosts. This not a spoiler, since it is clear at the start of the film that the world is doomed.
Since you love genuine old fashion romantic movie could I suggest an even more romantic movie from the same author (Nevil Shute) called A Town like Alice th-cam.com/video/OkjHoyMXDUY/w-d-xo.html. Particularly the last 15 mins- I cant watch it without emotion.
You need a fishing license nearly everywhere maybe not a fish farm. When you get to my age you don’t need a license as us old farts use our pension cards.
@@6226superhurricane well those states are backwards seeing you have to get a recreational fishing licence if you want go fishing I'm not talking about going out to sea what about sitting on a bridge or taking the boat out the river lake or swamp
The love scene is very intense and beautiful, but it's hardly romantic since it is in the context of post-nuclear war that has annihilated humanity and Australia is the last hold out of life.
I live in Seaford, Victoria, near the Mornington Peninsula in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
On the Beach was filmed (and set in the original novel by Nevil Shute) in Frankston and surrounds.
The beach scenes were filmed at Canadian Bay Beach in Mt Eliza (not far from here). I think the Waltzing Matilda scene was filmed around Langwarrin.
I don't know if you know but On the Beach was a science fiction movie about the end of the world. The premise was that nuclear war had made the atmosphere in the Northern hemisphere radioactive, and that radioactivity was slowly spreading, a pall of toxic atmosphere spreading to snuff out all life on Earth. Melbourne was to be one of the last places left to die.
So yeah, this was a cheery film!
There is a politically correct version of Waltzing Matilda:
Once a jolly swag person
Camped by an endangered wetland..
@@anEyePhil Seeking shelter from the sun's UV rays under a coolabah tree.
I think that, I am Australian is now our second national anthem with walzing Matilda bumped down to third.
Not everyone can catch a boat Kaitlyn well done, lol.
The movie was shot in rural Berwick and Frankston near Melbourne, Victoria.
Its a very rainy sydney australia today kaitlyn,happy valentines day anyway to you and mark.
I'd say some of the river scenes were in a studio until it panned out, then it looks like the Yarra River up in the Yarra Vally. My mother was in the bicycle scene down Elizabeth St Melbourne.
"The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing) with one's belongings in a "matilda" (swag) slung over one's back. The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker, or "swagman", making a drink of billy tea at a bush camp and capturing a stray jumbuck (sheep) to eat."
The swagman's name was Samuel Haugstetter, a shearer who lost his job during the shearers strike of 1894, he stole a sheep and when confronted by the police, committed suicide. The billabong near Winton in Queensland is quite a tourist attraction.
Most states in Australia require individuals who undertake recreational fishing within their jurisdiction to obtain a license in New South Wales, Western Australia, Tasmania, Victoria. To my knowledge you do not require a licence in Queensland, Northern Territory, and South Australia. Note that in all jurisdictions you DO NEED to comply with the relevant state and territory recreational fishing rules and regulations, including species, bag and size limits, seasonal closures, gear restrictions and licence requirements.
None of which would have applied with the end of civilization fast approaching I strongly suspect!
Waltzing Matilda was a poem originally pend by A.B. (Banjo) Patterson.
Then a few years later it was turned into a song
On the Beach was set in Melbourne and actually filmed in Melbourne. Ava Gardner is reputed to have said that Melbourne is the perfect place to film a movie about the end of the world. When you think about Melbourne (and Australia) in the late 50's I can't really argue with the sentiment!
Ava Gardiner apparently said that she thought “Melbourne was an ideal city in which to make a movie about the End of the World”
A commonly held belief Phil except that it wasn't Ava it was a reporter (I think from Sydney) who actually said it. However, I do agree with the sentiment! Melbourne back then really was "a quaint place".
@@pierremainstone-mitchell8290 Fair enough! I think Barry Humphries had similar thoughts about 1950s Australia and his home town.
Hi the film was filmed on location in Melbourne and Victoria the same as the book written by Neville chute which was set in Melbourne. I am not sure whether I have spelt the author's name correctly. Melbourne was still unaffected by the nuclear fall out of world war three.
When the submarine visited LA it was actually Geelong oil refinery in Victoria.
Close - Nevil Shute
@@supergran62 Closer but it was his pen name. His full name was Nevil Shute Norway. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevil_Shute
I haven't seen the film but all I know as a lot of the film was shot around the Frankston area. One thing I do know is that Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner had dinner at my local pub (Dava Hotel Mt.Martha) one night while filming.
The mere notion of Waltzing Matilda as a national anthem is hilarious. A classic Aussie song, yes, absolutely, but an anthem... HA! It's a song about a homeless man that moves about from place to place sleeping rough, who steals a sheep to bbq on a campfire, gets found with it by the authorities, and evades capture by taking himself out of the mortal realm by throwing himself into a billabong and promptly drowning; to then haunt the billabong by singing, "Who'll come a-waltzing matilda with me?" I completely agree that it's not a romantic song, but the way it was put into the background of the movie did enhance the scene very well, in a sense that the couple were with each other and had their full attention on each other despite some chaos going on around them.
I'd never heard of least of all seen any of the movie until now.
Hi Katlin this movie was filmed in 1958 or 59 but it was set in the future of 1964 and filmed in around Melbourne my Mum was studying to be a nurse at The Queen Victoria Hospital in the city and they filming outside the hospital for a couple of days
"Waltzing Matilda" is a little old-fashioned. "I Still Call Australia Home" might be more popular these days! "On the Beach" was filmed in Victoria. The fact that Gregory Peck is the lead actor indicates that it was made for American audiences, not Australian. The endless singing of Waltzing Matilda is a cliche -- a bit like showing kangaroos in every scene -- to tell American audiences "we" are in Australia. It is an apocalyptic movie about the end of the world -- seriously. In the movie and in the novel, Melbourne is the last place on earth to perish after nuclear war has destroyed the Northern Hemisphere -- and the fallout is drifting south. This is romance at the end of the world.
Now, you need to watch the whole film, and whilst superficially it is romantic, it is more about expressing love when you know your lives are about to end.
I’d recommend you also watch the Australian version with Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward from 2000. The version is much more Aussie. Better still read the book.
Then I’d recommend A Town Like Alice. Nevil Shute was a brilliant story teller.
I have a full collection of NSN books.
My cousin was an extra in "On The Beach"!I haven't seen it.
The film came out in the late '50s or early '60s - I vaguely remember going to see it at the local cinema in Bankstown when it was released here, although I have since seen it on TV many moons ago. One scene I do remember is the car race, filmed at Philip Island before the circuit was refurbished into the great track it is today. There was also a tele-movie made in either the '70s or '80s, from memory, which fairly closely followed the original story.
Regarding fishing, I have no interest in the pastime but I did hear or read somewhere that you need a NSW licence if you're fishing from the Victorian side of the Murray River, as the state border is actually the left bank so the whole river (up to the SA border) is in NSW.
I can't remember the exact date, but Ava Gardiner came to the country town I lived in at the time and had a meal in the local cafe'. About half the town was standing outside watching. I wasen't there, but everyone was talking about it.
the romantic poignancy of that "Waltzing Matilda" scene is that the Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner characters have found each other just at a time when the world (civilisation at least) is due to come to an end in a short few months when the nuclear fallout reachest the last safe haven on Earth- Australia.
Old movies are awesome...Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, The Maltese Falcon, The Alfred Hitchcock movies etc.
I had a bad introduction to fishing as a little girl. Dad took my best friend and I down to a crowded beach to go fishing. Of course he didn't catch anything, my best friend wound up crushing dead jellyfish with her feet. We were bored out of our minds. I wouldn't mind giving it another try, if my instructor took me to a really good spot.
I with the boredom Larissa. These days my wording of it is - "I'd rather watch paint dry, concrete harden or grass grow than go fishing!"
The crowd used to sing it at the start of a wallabies game, but not so much now
There is a modern version of this movie too
Regrettably nowhere near as good Jamie!
I love Gregory Peck and have of course heard of On the Beach but I haven't seen it and didn't realise it was an Australian based movie. This has definitely piqued my interest. Btw... commiserations for yesterday Kaitlyn. Hope you had a great day anyway.
ava gardener hated Australia , Australians and the weather she didnt have a good word to say when interviewed
I saw the movie ON THE BEACH when I was a young teenager and all it did was scare the shit out of me , nuclear Armageddon and everyone dying (real romantic I don't think so)Walsing Matilda has always been for me a song about a swagman (a hobo) carrying his swag , his possessions in a bag or bundle called a Matilda who steals a jumbuck (a sheep) and gets caught by the troopers ( cops) gets away and commits suicide by jumping tnto the Billabong (part of a river) and is never heard of again .The song was used in just about every Aussie movie in the old days more the tune that the actual lyrics along with apic a picture of a Koala and the call ofa Kookaburra , talk about stereotypes .
Where was On the Beach filmed in Australia?
The film was shot in Berwick, then a town outside Melbourne, and Frankston, described in the film as 45 minutes away from Melbourne. The scene where Peck meets Gardner as she arrives from Melbourne by rail was filmed on platform #1 of Frankston railway station, now rebuilt.
On the Beach (1959 film) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org › wiki › On_the_Beach_(1959...
You should check out Dusty Esky. It's a mangled Aussie name for the famous Russian novelist Feodor Dostoyevsky. It's a male choir from Mullumbimbi in Queensland. They sing Russian songs in Russian and none of them speak the language. Just a bunch of blokes in the local area. They were invited to Russia for the Red Square parade but Covid turned up and put a sock in it. They are fabulous.👍
Ava Gardner allegedly said.. Melbourne was the ideal place for a film about the end of the world? On the beach great movie
The first 30 minutes of Wall-E is silent and romantic like this, believe it or not of an animated movie!
The tune to waltzing matilda is so good it would make a fantastic anthem... especially when instruments play it. But the lyrics aren't National Anthem material at all. I would love an anthem change, And I used to want new lyrics set to the the tune of Waltzing Matilda. Now I would like "I am Australian" as the anthem, with the last verse and chorus sung as the usual short form at medal ceremonies etc.
Hello, Kaitlyn. I'd recommend borrowing "On the Beach' (1959 version) from your library, or buying a copy. It's a well made, well acted film, although with a very bleak story. Back story: author Nevil Shute hated the film, feeling that producer Stanley Kramer had bastardized his book. In particular, he felt that the scene you showed, at the country hotel, wherein it is pretty clear that Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner are going to connsumate their relationship, was totally inappropriate, that Peck's character would have remained true to the memory of his dead wife. A gentleman in Melbourne, Paul Hagl, has produced two videos for TH-cam, depicting the filming locations of On the Beach, then and now. You might also ask him about an excellent book about the filming, "When Hollywood Came to Melbourne'.
i was told that the term was used by what Americans would call bums. In the 1920s men would move around looking for work they would put the sleeping blankets wrapped i0n there backs and they would be sleeping with matilda to night.
Waltzing Matilda isn’t a romantic song. The On The Beach was filmed in Australia and when Ava Gardner came here it was a big deal. The film itself was about the eradication of humanity and some parts of Australia weren’t affected. You just have to watch it, the story was by an Australian author Neville Shute some of it they got right and the other stuff they were so of the mark.
It's a movie about the end of the world after a nuclear attach one of only a few books that I have read had to do it as a school project early sixties if I remember
Have no idea!
I really like On the Beach. It's sad but moving. A good advertisement for nuclear weapons control. Waltzing Matilda is kind of the unofficial national anthem and almost was the official one. There was a plebiscite (national poll) held to determine the national anthem. The anthem at the time was God Save the Queen, which was kind of weird, since Australia has been independent of the UK since 1901 (although the monarch of the UK is still our head of state). One of the options was the tune of Waltzing Matilda with different words, I think (can't find what the words were on Google). It came second. I live in Victoria. We only need a fishing licence for inland waterways, I think. Don't need one for fishing in the sea. The film was shot in Australia. The beach scenes were at Frankston, a Melbourne suburb (probably a separate town in those days). The fishing scene was shot at the Steavenson River, Marysville, Victoria. There is a guy who has done some in depth videos, returning to the exact sites of the filming of On the Beach: th-cam.com/video/BX1fAY-zYsM/w-d-xo.html, th-cam.com/video/fZ4PzwvuXsQ/w-d-xo.html. We recently stayed at a pub: the Caledonian Inn in Robe, South Australia. It is a lovely old (1858, if I remember correctly) limestone building and has rooms on the first floor (second floor if you are American) but we stayed in a lovely stone cottage out the back. Something went wrong with your audio at 9:12, Kaitlyn. The bit where the guy with the good voice sings about the swagman's ghost is pretty sad, because they realise that they and everyone they know will soon be ghosts. This not a spoiler, since it is clear at the start of the film that the world is doomed.
I know ACT and South Australia you don't need a fishing license but in NSW and Victoria you do don't know about the rest of Australia
I'm form CA living in QLD with my partner.
Fishing licence sounds like you need one in NSW, I live in SA pretty sure we don't need one. Other states input please.
Since you love genuine old fashion romantic movie could I suggest an even more romantic movie from the same author (Nevil Shute) called A Town like Alice th-cam.com/video/OkjHoyMXDUY/w-d-xo.html. Particularly the last 15 mins- I cant watch it without emotion.
Or Nevil Shute original love story Pastoral.
Context young lady, this, in the film, was after a nuclear war, and that one clear voice told of mankind's demise........
You need a fishing license nearly everywhere maybe not a fish farm. When you get to my age you don’t need a license as us old farts use our pension cards.
Australian country yobs - happy to spoil anybody's party. It should be our national anthem.
Nsw is unique
Qld only needs licence for stocked dam fishing not in salt water
Not in Queensland
You don't need a fishing licence for recreational fishing it's mainly if you're a trolla out in the ocean
you do need a recreational fishing license
@@6226superhurricane not in Queensland
@@jasonrichardson5871 you do for stocked impoundments.
nsw,vic,wa and tas all require recreational fishing licenses.
@@6226superhurricane well those states are backwards seeing you have to get a recreational fishing licence if you want go fishing I'm not talking about going out to sea what about sitting on a bridge or taking the boat out the river lake or swamp
@@jasonrichardson5871 any sort of fishing in those states and in qld you need a license for stocked impoundments.
Romantic and at time heart wrenching, yes, but it was quite a bleak and depressing tale about the end of the world following a nuclear holocaust.
On the Beach is about the end of the world after the Nuke bombs are launched
The love scene is very intense and beautiful, but it's hardly romantic since it is in the context of post-nuclear war that has annihilated humanity and Australia is the last hold out of life.
I would hardly call Waltzing Matilda a Romantic song since he commits suicide
An American girlfriend is my dream
I read the book and watched the movie - high school exercise. Peck and Gardner are great, but the movie is so terribly bleak.
Any movie about the end of the world is likely to be "terribly bleak" ziggle
Probably the worst rendition