Nevil Shute

ネヴィル・シュートの終末SFの古典『渚にて』は59年にグレゴリー・ペック主演で映画化されたが、今回は舞台となるオーストラリアの製作で長編TVムービーとしてリメイクされた。21世紀初頭、アメリカと中国の間で起きた核戦争は北半球を壊滅しただけでなく、残る南半球にも放射能の脅威を残した。唯一生き延びた米原潜の一行は最後の楽園となったオーストラリアに上陸するが、再び出航の命令が下る。北半球のどこかから正体不明のメールが送られてきたのだ。だが、万に一つの可能性を求めて北上する彼らの前には、忌むべき核の戦禍が広がっていた……。

A very proper Englishman becomes saddled with youngsters that he has to help escape Nazi Germany. Adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel.

第三次世界大戦が勃発し、世界全土は核攻撃によって放射能汚染が広がり北半球はすでに全滅。僅かに残った南半球の一部地域に人々が暮らすだけになっていた。そんなある日、本国に帰港出来なくなったアメリカ原子力潜水艦がメルボルンに入港する。そこで艦長タワーズは美しい女性モイラに出会いしばしの休日を楽しむが、その地にも死の灰は確実に迫っていた…。

In 1941, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.

James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.

A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.

Englishman Mr Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded to take along the two Cavanaugh children, and as his journey progresses his family keeps growing in size. Once in German-occupied northern France a new problem arises - the risk of being heard speaking English.

Commander Stevenson, suffering from unrequited love drives to the coast while very drunk and interrupts some smugglers and informs Scotland Yard.