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Films based on works by Nevil Shute. Pages in category "Films based on works by Nevil Shute" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
On the Beach is a 1959 American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film from United Artists starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins.Produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, [2] it is based on Nevil Shute's 1957 novel On the Beach depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war. [3]
A Town Like Alice is a five-hour 1981 Australian television adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel of the same name. Produced by the Seven Network, and directed by David Stevens, it was the second major adaptation of the book. [2] In the United States it was shown on PBS under the Masterpiece Theatre banner, a rare non-British production to be so aired.
The film was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the 1942 novel of the same name by Nevil Shute. [2] It was directed by Irving Pichel . It was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture , Monty Woolley for Best Actor in a Leading Role , and Edward Cronjager for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White .
Three years after the film, and six years after the publication of Nevil Shute's original novel , there were two fatal crashes of the world's first jet passenger airliner, the de Havilland Comet. Investigation found that metal fatigue was the cause of both accidents, albeit in the main fuselage and not the tail section. [11]
A Town Like Alice is a 1956 British drama film produced by Joseph Janni and starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch that is based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Nevil Shute. [2] The film does not follow the whole novel, concluding at the end of part two and truncating or omitting much detail. It was partially filmed in Malaya and ...
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On the Beach, a 1957 novel by Nevil Shute; On the Beach, an American adaptation of Shute's novel, by Stanley Kramer; On the Beach, an American-Australian television film based on Shute's novel, by Russell Mulcahy "On the Beach" , a 2002 TV episode; On the Beach, a 2009 play by Steve Waters