Movie

Fallout (2013)

• July 26, 2013
• 1h 26m

• Documentary
• History

Overview

During the 1940s, Nevil Shute had a steady job as an engineer in the British military but in his spare time, he wrote novels that were being well-received. Once the war was over, Shute choose to move to Australia and focus on writing, soon becoming an internationally acclaimed novelist. His novel On The Beach, particularly hit a chord with the international community, depicting the impact of global nuclear destruction. This documentary studies Shute's career and the adaptation of his most famous novel into a feature film in Melbourne, as his predictions of a post-Hiroshima world seem to be foreboding in their accuracy.

Director

Lawrence Johnston

Writers

Lawrence Johnston

Starring

Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck, Anthony Perkins