The Light at 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.

Cast

Kirk Douglas

as Will Denton

Yul Brynner

as Jonathan Kongre

Samantha Eggar

as Arabella

Jean-Claude Drouot

as Virgilio

Fernando Rey

as Captain Moriz

Renato Salvatori

as Montefiore

Massimo Ranieri

as Felipe

Aldo Sambrell

as Tarcante (as Aldo Sanbrell)

Tito García

as Emilio (as Tito Garcia)

Víctor Israel

as Das Mortes (as Victor Israel)

Reviews

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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 sp...

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