A ruthless pirate captures the keeper of a lighthouse, in the most southern city in Argentina. His goal is obvious and horrific. He plans to control the lighthouses signals in a way that the passing ships will be crushed on the rocks.
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Title: The Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
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| Kirk Douglas | ... | Denton | |
| Yul Brynner | ... | Kongre | |
| Samantha Eggar | ... | Arabella | |
| Jean-Claude Drouot | ... | Virgilio (as Jean Claude Drouot) | |
| Fernando Rey | ... | Captain Moriz | |
| Renato Salvatori | ... | Montefiore | |
| Massimo Ranieri | ... | Felipe | |
| Aldo Sambrell | ... | Tarcante (as Aldo Sanbrell) | |
| Tito García | ... | Emilio (as Tito Garcia) | |
| Víctor Israel | ... | Das Mortes (as Victor Israel) | |
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Antonio Rebollo | ... | Santos (as Tony Skios) |
| Luis Barboo | ... | Calsa Larga (as Luis Bar Boo) | |
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Tony Cyrus | ... | Valgolyo |
| Raul Castro | ... | Malapinha | |
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Oscar Davis | ... | Amador |
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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. Written by John Rutkai <jrutkai@learningtree.com>
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29 October 1971 (Spain) See more »Also Known As:
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The movie was a commercial failure at the international box-office. See more »Goofs
When being sunk in the end, Kongre's ship is obviously a miniature. Besides, some damage is visible before the impacts (particularly noticeable when the ship is hit in the waterline). See more »Alternate Versions
UK DVD version not quite uncut. Compulsory cuts of 35s for an illegal horse tripping scene, in line with anti-animal cruelty laws. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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This is an adventure film based on a Jules Verne's novel about a pirate captain and his crew that take over a small island with a lighthouse on it; the idea is to turn out the light at night when ships are at sight so that they crash against the rocks and the pirates can easily steal everything from the passengers and the wrecked vessel. The point is that one of the lighthouse servers -the only survivor- manages to escape into the island and will try to ruin the pirates sinister plans.
Though not a great film at all and a bit slow, "The Light at the End of the World" doesn't lack some sort of charm and interest perhaps because of the lone man's fight against the whole bunch of criminals all by himself and perhaps also because of the hostile and lonely atmosphere in which the action takes place.
Kirk Douglas is the lonely fighter and Yul Brynner plays the flamboyant and deadly captain Kongre, leader of the pirates. The feminine touch is brought by Samantha Eggar as a survivor of a ship wreck that is captured by Kongre's men.
Not a great adventure film, but sort of original and worth a look in my opinion for fans of the genre.
The film was shot in the coast of Spain, but Verne's novel settles the action in the "Isla de los Estados", a small Argentine island a few miles east of its most southern province called "Tierra del Fuego" (Land of Fire) where you can still visit the lighthouse that inspired Verne.