The Dark Light

THE DARK LIGHT is another Vernon Sewell picture, shot for Hammer in the early days of the studio, and making full use of the director's yacht which he managed to shoehorn into a dozen or so movies. This one's a lighthouse thriller annoyingly told via a wraparound story which presents the main story in flashback. All this only serves to pad out a very slim storyline in a film which comes up short to begin with. The story sees some shipwreck survivors taking refuge in a lighthouse, only for dark secrets to emerge. It's serviceable enough but never particularly suspenseful, and the cast is undistinguished.