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AdventureDramaFantasy

The Light at the Edge of the World

- 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.

Release Date : 1971-07-16

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : JetfilmTriumfilmBryna ProductionsNational General Pictures

Production Country : United States of AmericaLiechtensteinSpainSwitzerland

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Kirk Douglas

Character Name : Will Denton

Original Name : Kirk Douglas

Gender : Male

Yul Brynner

Character Name : Jonathan Kongre

Original Name : Yul Brynner

Gender : Male

Samantha Eggar

Character Name : Arabella

Original Name : Samantha Eggar

Gender : Female

Jean-Claude Drouot

Character Name : Virgilio

Original Name : Jean-Claude Drouot

Gender : Male

Fernando Rey

Character Name : Captain Moriz

Original Name : Fernando Rey

Gender : Male

Renato Salvatori

Character Name : Montefiore

Original Name : Renato Salvatori

Gender : Male

Massimo Ranieri

Character Name : Felipe

Original Name : Massimo Ranieri

Gender : Male

Aldo Sambrell

Character Name : Tarcante (as Aldo Sanbrell)

Original Name : Aldo Sambrell

Gender : Male

Tito García

Character Name : Emilio (as Tito Garcia)

Original Name : Tito García

Gender : Male

Víctor Israel

Character Name : Das Mortes (as Victor Israel)

Original Name : Víctor Israel

Gender : Male

Antonio Rebollo

Character Name : Santos (as Tony Skios)

Original Name : Antonio Rebollo

Gender : Male

Luis Barboo

Character Name : Calsa Larga (as Luis Bar Boo)

Original Name : Luis Barboo

Gender : Male

Tony Cyrus

Character Name : Valgolyo

Original Name : Tony Cyrus

Gender : Male

Raúl Castro

Character Name : Malapinha

Original Name : Raúl Castro

Gender : Male

Oscar Davis

Character Name : Amador

Original Name : Oscar Davis

Gender : Male

Alejandro de Enciso

Character Name : Morabbito

Original Name : Alejandro de Enciso

Gender : Male

Martin Uviente

Character Name : Balduino (as Martin Uvience)

Original Name : Martin Uviente

Gender : Male

John Clark

Character Name : Matt

Original Name : John Clark

Gender : Male

Maria Borge

Character Name : Emily Jane

Original Name : Maria Borge

Gender : Male

Juan Cazalilla

Character Name : Captain Lafayette

Original Name : Juan Cazalilla

Gender : Male

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-06-02

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.