Re: On The Beach - accuracy?

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Ken Duncan" <kaduncan@gil.com.au> wrote in message
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| I've got to admit, the few minutes of On the Beach I saw had me confused.
A
| steam loco ahead of blue Vic Rail carriages, and The Rialto (or some other
| similar building) in the background. There was obviously some sort of
phase
| shift in the space:time continuum. (Where have I heard that before.)

There was a fuel shortage, so steam trains and horse-drawn cars were the
order of the day.


| Sorry, it didn't grab me as being one of our better movies, or telemovie
for
| that matter.

It was crap. I doubt Armand Assante would be including it in his resumé.
Bryan Brown and his missus on the other hand make mostly crap movies.