The Light at the Edge of the World
Jules Verne Takes You Over the Edge of the World!
1971 • 128 min • Adventure · Drama · Fantasy
Synopsis
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.
Our family guide
Best from age 14- 100 Reviewers · 2 · 51%
- 60 Audience · 58 · 49%
Pirates seize a remote lighthouse, intending to wreck ships and plunder their cargo. A lone lighthouse keeper, the sole survivor of the initial attack, battles the ruthless crew. His desperate fight is complicated by a shipwrecked woman he rescues from the pirates.
- Violence & peril
- 7/10
- Language
- 3/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 3/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 5/10
- Scary moments
- 6/10
Heads up
- Graphic violence including torture and gore
- Implied sexual assault and perilous situations
- Perilous shipwrecks and intense survival scenes
What it models well
- Courage in the face of evil
- Resilience and survival
- Protecting the innocent
Talk about it after
- The true nature of evil and greed
- How one person can make a difference
- The historical reality of piracy
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Top billed cast
Director: Kevin Billington • Crew: Rachel Billington, Tom Rowe
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Reviewer notes
RecommendedTrusted family reviewers**_Kirk Douglas vs. Yul Brynner & his pirates on a rocky coastal landscape in 1865_** The events take place at a remote lighthouse near Tierra Del Fuego with the story based on Jules Verne’s “The Lighthouse at the End of World.” The French author wrote the first draft in 1901, and his son finished it after his death, 1905.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersYul 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.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 6.0/10 (58)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- IMDb
- tt0067345