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The Light at the Edge of the World

Jules Verne Takes You Over the Edge of the World!

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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.

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Released
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Box office
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Language
English
  • island
  • rape
  • lighthouse
  • gore
  • lighthouse keeper
  • pirate
  • torture

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United States of America, Liechtenstein, Spain, Switzerland

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG16 Jul 1971
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1625 Dec 1971
  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical15 Mar 1972
  • SwitzerlandCH

    • Theatrical1616 Jul 1971

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The Light at the Edge of the World was released on 16 July 1971.

Audience reviews

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    CinemaSerf

    6/2/2022

    6/10

    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 spoils whilst killing their crews. "Denton" escapes the purge of his own colleagues, but is unable to prevent this process…

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    Wuchak

    6/11/2026

    7/10

    **_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. Verne was inspired by the real-life lighthouse on the Isla de los Estados, Argentina, locate…

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