The Light at the Edge of the World

7/16/19712h 8m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Jules Verne Takes You Over the Edge of the World! ~

Overview:

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.

Director:

Kevin Billington

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

island
rape
lighthouse
gore
lighthouse keeper
pirate
torture

Cast

Kirk Douglas

~ as ~

Will Denton

Yul Brynner

~ as ~

Jonathan Kongre

Samantha Eggar

~ as ~

Arabella

Jean-Claude Drouot

~ as ~

Virgilio

Fernando Rey

~ as ~

Captain Moriz

Renato Salvatori

~ as ~

Montefiore

Massimo Ranieri

~ as ~

Felipe

Aldo Sambrell

~ as ~

Tarcante (as Aldo Sanbrell)

Tito García

~ as ~

Emilio (as Tito Garcia)

Víctor Israel

~ as ~

Das Mortes (as Victor Israel)

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
6
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.