Don Siegel directs EDGE OF ETERNITY with his trademark no nonsense approach, benefitting from lovely Grand Canyon scenery to build atmosphere around the guano mining "dancing bucket" - a cable car used by the US Guano Company to carry that iconic bat discharge - which will be the scene of the film's climax.
EDGE OF ETERNITY grabs you from the outset, and at an economical 79' it is easy on the eye and on your time.
Add to that a solid cast (though Cornel Wilde looks long in the teeth for lovely Vicky Shaw), with Buchanan and Elam in show-stealing small parts, and a surprising villain to boot - plus a script with sharp and straight shooting dialogue, and breath-taking Grand Canyon sights, and you just have to enjoy EDGE OF ETERNITY.
The climax on the funicular may have inspired writer Alistair McLean to a somewhat similar struggle in WHERE EAGLES DARE (USA 1968). Though you have to suspend your disbelief, it is an important scene in that it shows just how completely self-absorbed the unexpected villain is, making its character more rounded and believable in its urge to get gold and dispatch witnesses.
Well worth watching.
EDGE OF ETERNITY grabs you from the outset, and at an economical 79' it is easy on the eye and on your time.
Add to that a solid cast (though Cornel Wilde looks long in the teeth for lovely Vicky Shaw), with Buchanan and Elam in show-stealing small parts, and a surprising villain to boot - plus a script with sharp and straight shooting dialogue, and breath-taking Grand Canyon sights, and you just have to enjoy EDGE OF ETERNITY.
The climax on the funicular may have inspired writer Alistair McLean to a somewhat similar struggle in WHERE EAGLES DARE (USA 1968). Though you have to suspend your disbelief, it is an important scene in that it shows just how completely self-absorbed the unexpected villain is, making its character more rounded and believable in its urge to get gold and dispatch witnesses.
Well worth watching.