On the Beach

Julian Osborn: There was a choice. It was build the bombs, and use them — or risk the United States, the Soviet Union, and the rest of us, would find some way... to go on living Morgan: [scoffs] That's wishful thinking if ever I heard it. Julian Osborn: [softly] I'm not against wishful thinking. Not now.

On the Beach (1959 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Morgan: They pushed us too far! They didn't think we'd fight, no matter what they did! Julian Osborn: And they were wrong. We fought. We expunged them. And we didn't do such a bad job on ourselves.

On the Beach (1959 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Moira Davidson: All I want to know is: if everybody was so smart, why didn't they know what would happen? Dwight Towers: They did. Moira Davidson: Well, I, I can't take it. I, oh, yes, I can take it! But, it's unfair. It's unfair because I didn't do anything. And nobody I know did anything.

On the Beach (1959 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Peter Holmes: Now, this is a special kind of — sleeping pill. I had a devil of a time getting 'em. But, I wanted you to have them on hand and to make sure you knew how to use 'em. What happens with the radiation is that you get — you get ill — and you start feeling sick and then you are sick and you go on being sick. You can't keep anything down. You may feel better for awhile; but, but it always comes back. You get weaker. Mary Holmes: And this cures it. Peter Holmes: Darling, you know nothing cures it. This ends it.

On the Beach (1959 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Julian Osborn: We're all doomed, you know. The whole, silly, drunken, pathetic lot of us. Doomed by the air we're about to breathe. We haven't got a chance! Mary Holmes: Stop it! I won't have it, Julian. I won't! There is hope. There has to be hope. There's always hope. We just can't go on like this. We can't. We - we...

On the Beach (1959 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Dwight Towers: Well... how'd you recognise me? Moira Davidson: I love Americans. They're so naïve.

On the Beach (1959 film), CC BY-SA 4.0