Edge of Eternity

Director: Don Siegel Don Siegel

Overview

In this western-action film, a courageous sheriff must solve the murder of a gold-mine executive. He was killed after he found out that someone was stealing his gold and selling it on the Mexican black market. The murderer soon finds out that the sheriff is in hot-pursuit.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/04/2011
UPC:	0043396388932
Original Release:	1959
Rating:	NR
Source:	SONY
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:19:00

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Cornel Wilde	Les Martin
Victoria Shaw	Janice Kendon
Mickey Shaughnessy	Scotty O'Brien
Rian Garrick	Bob Kendon
Edgar Buchanan	Sheriff Edwards
Jack Elam	Bill Ward
Alexander Lockwood	Jim Kendon
Dabbs Greer	Gas Station Attendant
Tom Fadden	Eli
Wendell Holmes	Sam Houghton
George Cisar	The Dealer
Buzz Westcott	Pilot
Ted Jacques	Suds Reese
Paul Bailey	Amphibian Pilot
George Ross	Undersheriff
Hope Summers	Motel Lady
John Ayres	Coroner
Don Siegel	Pipe Smoker at Motel
John Roy	Whitmore

Technical Credits

Don Siegel	Director
Kendrick Sweet	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Don Siegel's Edge of Eternity is not only a neat little crime thriller but one of the better outdoor adventure movies of its era, availing itself of the landscape attending the Grand Canyon and its surrounding area as only a color film in Cinemascope could. Shot on location in Mojave County, AZ, it weaves the vast open spaces of its locales all through its story, and is filled with visually striking images (which, to be fair, should be seen on a theater screen to be appreciated properly) juxtaposed around a fine mystery story. What's more, unlike most movies of this era that try to mesh Hollywood with remote locales, Siegel keeps the movie business smoothness (forget glitziness) to an absolute minimum -- Cornel Wilde fairly melts into his role as a deputy county sheriff who is up to his neck in unexplained murders (and, for a time, unidentified victims), and the rest of the cast isn't far behind. Under Siegel's nonstop momentum, you can just sit back and go for what will -- certainly in a theater, and perhaps even on a large widescreen monitor, if this ever shows up on DVD -- be the ride of your life during the final section, an extended helicopter and airplane pursuit culminating with a fight aboard a bucket suspended more than a mile above the Grand Canyon. Incidentally, that "dancing bucket" was the real article, as was the guano cave it was put there to service. Generations of businessmen had tried to exploit the bat excrement, and the U.S. Guano Corp. put in the bucket-tramway in 1958 at a cost of one million dollars, but the cave had only a fraction of the 100,000 tons of guano originally surveyed, and the 7,500-foot cable link across that gorge kept developing problems; by 1959 the operation was halted. The shooting of Edge of Eternity was the last time the cable tramway was used, following the severing of one of the main cables by a passing airplane.