“Lighthouse Kirk And Pirate Yul”
By Raymond Benson
Spend eleven million dollars (that was a lot of money in 1970-1971), cast classic Hollywood stars like Kirk Douglas and Yul Brynner, hire an international production crew from Spain, Italy, and France, appoint Alexander and Ilya Salkind as producers (with Douglas himself credited as producer), and adapt a little-known public domain novel by Jules Verne about pirates in the Cape Horn area in 1865, and you’ve got the ingredients for a rousing, epic action/adventure flick to rival Journey to the Center of the Earth or 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, right?
Unfortunately, something went wrong. The Light at the Edge of the World flopped at the box office, and, while the picture has its fans—who will welcome this impressive new Blu-ray restoration from Kino Lorber—the movie is a dud.
Douglas plays Will Denton, a lighthouse keeper on an isolated island.
By Raymond Benson
Spend eleven million dollars (that was a lot of money in 1970-1971), cast classic Hollywood stars like Kirk Douglas and Yul Brynner, hire an international production crew from Spain, Italy, and France, appoint Alexander and Ilya Salkind as producers (with Douglas himself credited as producer), and adapt a little-known public domain novel by Jules Verne about pirates in the Cape Horn area in 1865, and you’ve got the ingredients for a rousing, epic action/adventure flick to rival Journey to the Center of the Earth or 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, right?
Unfortunately, something went wrong. The Light at the Edge of the World flopped at the box office, and, while the picture has its fans—who will welcome this impressive new Blu-ray restoration from Kino Lorber—the movie is a dud.
Douglas plays Will Denton, a lighthouse keeper on an isolated island.
- 3/31/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Jules Verne’s version of ‘Die Hard’ takes place not on Christmas Eve in Century City, but 160 years ago at a lonely lighthouse in Tierra Del Fuego. The mini-moguls the Salkinds rounded up a great cast — Kirk Douglas! Samantha Eggar! Yul Brynner! — but let them down severely in production details and particularly the edit. Most everything is here for a classic adventure-suspense picture, but somebody thought it had to be ultra-violent and nihilistic. The new Blu-ray restores it to good color and an uncut state.
The Light at the Edge of the World
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1971 / Color / 2:35 anamorphic 16:9 / 126 min. / La Luz del fin del mundo / 129 min. / Street Date February 18, 2020 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar, Jean-Claude Drouot,
Fernando Rey, Renato Salvatori.
Cinematography: Henri Decae
Film Editor: Bert Bates
Original Music: Piero Piccioni
Written by Tom Rowe, Rachel Billington from a book by...
The Light at the Edge of the World
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1971 / Color / 2:35 anamorphic 16:9 / 126 min. / La Luz del fin del mundo / 129 min. / Street Date February 18, 2020 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar, Jean-Claude Drouot,
Fernando Rey, Renato Salvatori.
Cinematography: Henri Decae
Film Editor: Bert Bates
Original Music: Piero Piccioni
Written by Tom Rowe, Rachel Billington from a book by...
- 2/4/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The week is almost over, and I am dangerously close to losing track!
Day 4 brings us to Saturday, aka Toy Story 3 day! The UK press were all lined up for 9am to see the first and only press screening of the festival while delegates, staff, and non-uk press pouted and grumbled.
Not me, though! I had a busy morning and big plans for later on.
At about 1pm, I sat down to watch The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer. Directed by one of Britain’s great directors, Kevin Billington, it was screened as part of the After the Wave retrospective. Billington was in attendance, and said a few words to introduce the film. It’s an uproarious satire based on the life of one Michael Rimmer, a pollster who rises in the ranks and through the British political system.
Starring Peter Cook and penned by the some of the Monty Python crew,...
Day 4 brings us to Saturday, aka Toy Story 3 day! The UK press were all lined up for 9am to see the first and only press screening of the festival while delegates, staff, and non-uk press pouted and grumbled.
Not me, though! I had a busy morning and big plans for later on.
At about 1pm, I sat down to watch The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer. Directed by one of Britain’s great directors, Kevin Billington, it was screened as part of the After the Wave retrospective. Billington was in attendance, and said a few words to introduce the film. It’s an uproarious satire based on the life of one Michael Rimmer, a pollster who rises in the ranks and through the British political system.
Starring Peter Cook and penned by the some of the Monty Python crew,...
- 6/20/2010
- by Nicola Balkind
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Two highly-anticipated second feature films from U.S. underground filmmakers will be making their World Premieres all the way over at the 64th annual Edinburgh International Film Festival, which will run for twelve days on June 16-27. The films are Rona Mark’s The Crab and Zach Clark’s Vacation!.
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
- 6/4/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Rarely seen works by Ken Russell, Stephen Frears and Albert Finney among festival retrospective
A batch of "lost and forgotten" British films, made more than 30 years ago by many of the industry's leading figures, including Ken Russell, Stephen Frears and Albert Finney, is to be screened at this year's Edinburgh film festival.
The retrospective of 16 rarely seen British-made and directed films from between 1967 and 1979, which have been rediscovered after more than a year's detective work by the event's staff, is expected to be a highlight of the festival, which opens in two weeks.
Some are being shown for the first time in decades, as many of the films, including Savage Messiah made by Ken Russell in 1972 and starring Helen Mirren, the children's detective story What Next, and the original cut of Robert Fuest's The Final Programme, starring Jon Finch, have never been released on video or DVD.
The mini-season,...
A batch of "lost and forgotten" British films, made more than 30 years ago by many of the industry's leading figures, including Ken Russell, Stephen Frears and Albert Finney, is to be screened at this year's Edinburgh film festival.
The retrospective of 16 rarely seen British-made and directed films from between 1967 and 1979, which have been rediscovered after more than a year's detective work by the event's staff, is expected to be a highlight of the festival, which opens in two weeks.
Some are being shown for the first time in decades, as many of the films, including Savage Messiah made by Ken Russell in 1972 and starring Helen Mirren, the children's detective story What Next, and the original cut of Robert Fuest's The Final Programme, starring Jon Finch, have never been released on video or DVD.
The mini-season,...
- 6/1/2010
- by Severin Carrell
- The Guardian - Film News
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