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The Light at the Edge of the World

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5.9/10 • 49

1971-07-162h 8m

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Jules Verne Takes You Over the Edge of the World!

Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that avoids the pirates slaughter soon complicates the situation.

Directors
Kevin Billington
Writters
Rachel Billington
Editors
Bert Bates

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  1. Kirk Douglas

    Kirk Douglas

    Will Denton

  2. Yul Brynner

    Yul Brynner

    Jonathan Kongre

  3. Samantha Eggar

    Samantha Eggar

    Arabella

  4. Jean-Claude Drouot

    Jean-Claude Drouot

    Virgilio

  5. Fernando Rey

    Fernando Rey

    Captain Moriz

  6. Renato Salvatori

    Renato Salvatori

    Montefiore

  7. Massimo Ranieri

    Massimo Ranieri

    Felipe

  8. Aldo Sambrell

    Aldo Sambrell

    Tarcante (as Aldo Sanbrell)

  9. Tito García

    Tito García

    Emilio (as Tito Garcia)

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CinemaSerf

Jun 2, 2022

6/10

Yul Brynner ("Kongre") is the psuedo-sophisticate, but really rather brutal, captain of a pirate ship that quite cleverly decides to capture a lighthouse - manned by a fairly agile Kirk Douglas ("Denton") - and then disable the light so as to manage to wreck passing ships and salvage their luxury spoils whilst killing their crews. "Denton" escapes the purge of his own colleagues, but is unable to prevent this process proving remarkably successful until, that is, the arrival of "Arabella" (Samantha Eggar). "Denton" rather preposterously thinks she might be his ex-fiancée, and "Kongre" a woman upon whom he now fixates, offers her a life of luxury and fine clothes - albeit on their island stuck near the bottom of South America. The story is quite fun and both stars have clearly entered into the spirit of this pretty poorly budgeted and produced maritime yarn with little expectation that it will do either of their careers any good. The dialogue is neither here nor there, and the drama is strung out for way too long before an ending that was really just a bit too downbeat and tacky, then somewhat silly for me. Interesting to see two Hollywood stars reduced to this kind of film and even if Douglas did executive produce it, it's still pretty sad to see them fall quite this far from the top of the mountain.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
islandrapelighthousegorelighthouse keeper piratetorture