The Light at the Edge of the World

1971

2h 8m

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6.0/10

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Adventure

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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

Writers

Jules Verne(novel by)

Rachel Billington(writer by)

Tom Rowe(screenplay by)

Stars

Kirk Douglas

Yul Brynner

Samantha Eggar

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Will Denton

Jonathan Kongre

Arabella

Virgilio

Captain Moriz

Montefiore

Felipe

Tarcante (as Aldo Sanbrell)

Tito García

Emilio (as Tito Garcia)

Víctor Israel

Das Mortes (as Victor Israel)

Antonio Rebollo

Santos (as Tony Skios)

Luis Barboo

Calsa Larga (as Luis Bar Boo)

Valgolyo

Malapinha

Amador

Morabbito

Balduino (as Martin Uvience)

John Clark

Matt

Directors

Kevin Billington

Writers

Jules Verne(novel by)

Rachel Billington(writer by)

Tom Rowe(screenplay by)

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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.

Geronimo196702 Jun, 2022