Appendix: Films with Beach Endings
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APPENDIX: FILMS WITH BEACH ENDINGS Almost all of these are seashore beaches. Lakeside beaches are included only if they function like a seashore; the two riverside beach endings, Sweet Sixteen and Baciami ancora, are special cases. Penult means the beach scene is followed by a coda/epilogue elsewhere; ES that it falls within an ending sequence. Bookend means the ending repeats or ech- oes the beginning. C century; fb fashback; inc. includes; TVS TV = = = = series; TVMS TV miniseries; v-o voice-over; X-cut cross cut; = = = y-o year-old. Not all voice-overs are noted. = Countries of origin are all in capitals. If no country is mentioned, it is the USA; with co-productions, only the country where the flm is set is usually cited. AUS Australia; BRA Brazil; CAN Canada; = = = FR France; GEO Georgia; GER Germany; GRE Greece; = = = = HK Hong Kong; ICE Iceland; IND India; INDO = = = = Indonesia; IS Israel; IT Italy; JAP Japan; MEX Mexico; = = = = NE Netherlands; NZ New Zealand; POR Portugal; SP Spain; = = = = SWE Sweden; TUR Turkey; W GER West Germany. Some coun- = = = tries are named in full. *the ending is discussed further in the text. **the ending is illustrated in a frame grab. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive 273 license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 M. Walker, Endings in the Cinema, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31657-0 274 APPENDIX: FILMS WITH BEACH ENDINGS 1900s 10 Gardian de la Camargue, Le FR: rejected in romance, man rides horse on beach and suicides in sea. 12 Sands of Dee, The* Heroine suicides in sea body ashore → → beach coda empty beach. → 14 Spoilers, The* Saloon girl leaving with reformed gambler; hero & heroine embrace; sunset. 18 When the Light Disappeared NE: husband’s infdelity leads blind heroine to drown herself body ashore. → 28 Chien Andalou, Un* FR: surrealist image of couple buried in sand; ‘au printemps’ on screen. 28 Submarine Two heroes come ashore by boat onto beach and go off together. 29 Rescue, The* Penult: hero and heroine part at grave of friend epilogue. → 35 Crime de Monsieur Lange, Le* FR: fugitive hero and heroine escape across beach towards frontier. 36 Road I Travel with You, The* JAP: at funeral, woman fees oppressive family atmosphere across beach. → 37 Nadare* JAP: woman rejects role as man’s mistress for quiet life with brother & dog. 39 Warm Current* JAP: having sent hero to marry another, hero- ine hides her tears. 41 Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family JAP: man fees onto beach to avoid persistent suitor – comic. 42 Wake Island* WW2 Pacifc. Japanese victory coda: march- → ing US troops and fag. 43 Guadalcanal Diary* WW2 Pacifc. US troops control beach. 43 I Walked with a Zombie* Penult, night: man carries dezombifed lover into sea bodies home. → 43 Ordet SWE: wife waves to patriarch and sons as they ride horses on beach. 45 They Were Expendable* WW2 Philippines. US troops left behind as plane with senior offcers fies off. 46 Humoresque* Penult, night: heroine’s suicide X-cut with hero’s concert Liebestod epilogue. → 47 Ball at the Anjo House, The JAP: post-ball dawn: heroine and father on house porch look out at beach. 47 Tombolo, paradiso nero IT: shot by villain, hero dies on beach; cop salutes him. 47 Woman on the Beach, The* Studio, night. Blind husband burns paintings, rejects wife; hero leaves. 48 Si jolie petite plage, Une FR: hero suicides in blockhouse couple walk → on beach and cite flm’s title. 49 Late Spring* JAP: night, empty beach coda. 49 Whisky Galore* GB: couple walk on beach – the only islanders to get a happy ending. 50 Magnet, The GB: 10 y-o resolves his guilt about cheating by letting boy victim cheat him. APPENDIX: FILMS WITH BEACH ENDINGS 275 50 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman* GB, penult: out of fb, distant shot of reunion on beach epilogue in study. → 50 Treasure Island GB, 18th C: boy on beach helps pirate escape in a rowing boat with sail. 51 Distant Drums* 19th C Florida. Heroine will stay with hero and his son: kiss on lakeside beach. 52 Blackbeard the Pirate 18th C: pirate buried to head on shoreline and drowned; couple escape in boat. 52 Plaisir, Le* FR, 19th C: artist pushes disabled wife in wheelchair past Narrator. 52 Road to Bali Studio, comedy. Both women choose the hero, leaving buddy frustrated. 52 Subida al cielo* MEX, day-for-night: honeymoon couple and child they will adopt. 53 His Majesty O’Keefe* GB, 19th C Pacifc, biopic. Hero resolves tribal confict; foreigners expelled. 53 Master of Ballantrae, The GB, 18th C Scotland. Heroine on horseback joins fugitive heroes ride off. → 54 Drive a Crooked Road* Night: hero kills man assaulting woman; police arrive ironic coda. → 54 Sansho Dayu** JAP, 11th C: mother and son reunion. 54 Strada, La* IT, night: hero feels alone, mourns loss of heroine. 55 Female on the Beach* Night: bad woman arrested, beach bum hero joins heroine in beach house. 55 Kiss Me deadly* Apocalypse, night: atomic bomb in beach house hero & heroine fee into sea. → 55 Seven Cities of Gold* 18th C: renewal of Christian mission. 56 Carousel* Emblematic sunset as hero leaves beach to return to Heaven. 56 Forty First, The* USSR, Russian Civil War: Red heroine shoots White lover. 57 Sorority Girl* Bad woman expelled from sorority suicides in ocean empty beach. → 57 Yellow Crow, The JAP, New Year’s Day: family reconciliation: boy fies kite in competition. 58 Darby’s Rangers WW2 Italy. Saluting US troops perk up Darby crossing beach to landing craft. 58 Old Man and the Sea, The Hero’s dream of lions in Africa ends with shots of beach. 59 Beloved Infdel** Biopic: heroine mourns death of famous novelist hero. 59 Gidget* Young romantic couple at end of summer holidays. 59 Hole in the Head, A* Hero and young son reunite in shallows: hero- ine, brother and his wife arrive. 59 Plein soleil FR: cops arrive to arrest hero at beachside café for murder. 59 Quatre cents coups, Les** FR: adolescent hero at shoreline; unknown future: looks at camera. 276 APPENDIX: FILMS WITH BEACH ENDINGS 60 Dolce Vita, La** IT: socialites, fshermen, dead monster teen → girl offers, hero rejects renewal. 60 Where the Boys Are* Part studio: formation of young romantic couple at end of Spring holidays. 61 Battle at Bloody Beach WW2 Philippines. US hero & wife boat to sub; guerrilla on beach will fght on. 61 El Cid* 11th C Spain. Dead epic hero makes mythical ride along shoreline. 61 One-Eyed Jacks* Western: on horseback, hero & pregnant hero- ine part, but hope to meet again. 62 Ivan’s Childhood** USSR, WW2: dying fantasy: Ivan’s farewell to mother; runs with sister, fies. 62 Longest Day, The** WW2: end of D-Day assault landings → emblematic: GI helmet on sand. 62 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?* Ageing sisters: one is dying; one goes mad. 62 Wrong Arm of the Law, The GB, part studio: criminals escape to south sea island and sell skirts. 63 Beach Party* Couples formed night: everyone parties on. → 63 Judex* FR: happy ending for hero, heroine, her daughter, and dog. 63 Lord of the Flies* GB: Arrival of Navy personnel on island halts schoolboy murderousness. 64 Black God White Devil* BRA: man runs, leaving wife behind camera → fies over deserted beach. 64 Zorba the Greek GRE: English hero shares Zorba’s insouciant zest for life by dancing with him. 65 Help! GB: Goonish silliness with various factions in slapstick climax. 65 Inside Daisy Clover* Heroine blows up beach house and sets off to freedom. 65 Sandpiper, The* Heroine paints with young son; estranged hero looks from clifftop, leaves. 65 Tattooed Life, A* JAP: hero buries carving at brother’s grave; farewell to heroine, off to jail. 65 Third Day, The Hero defeats villain, rescues kidnapped wife. 66 Glass Bottom Boat, The* Honeymooners in speedboat crash across beach and carry on snogging. 66 Seconds Hero’s dying memory: man, child and dog on beach. 66 Stranger Within a Woman, The* JAP: wife burdened with guilt at killing hus- band; children play happily. 67 Planet of the Apes** Hero in future discovers man’s past apocalypse: ruined Statue of Liberty. 68 Green Berets, The* Vietnam War. Hero marches orphaned boy across Vietnamese beach at sunset. 68 Will Our Heroes be able to Find their Friend who IT: man swims from ship to beach to join has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? Africans ship leaves. → 69 Age of Consent* AUS: couple frolic in shallows at night. 69 Last Summer* Post-trauma: freeze before teenagers reach deserted Edenic beach. APPENDIX: FILMS WITH BEACH ENDINGS 277 69 Lucia CUBA: macho husband of modern Lucia chases her around. 69 Ma nuit chez Maud* FR: hero’s saving lie to his wife; family off for a swim. 69 Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp JAP: Tora-san and friend dance happily on beach. 70 Catch-22 WW2 Italy. Hero in dinghy paddles wildly to get away from empty beach. 70 If You Were Young: Rage JAP: hero and heroine meet at crashed truck site; he runs on shoreline. 71 Death in Venice** IT: death of middle-aged hero as he watches youth he desires. 71 Get Carter* GB: gangster hero shot dead on polluted beach. 71 Juste avant la nuit** FR: family recovers from death of hero, enacted by wife with his consent. 71 Lost Lovers JAP: hero walks with two blind deaf-mutes. 71 Out One: Noli me Tangere FR: theatrical games playing at sunset. 71 Summer of ’42* Nostalgic v-o as teenage hero walks on dunes emblematic sunset.